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Steve Lake formed Zounds with friends Steve Burch and Jimmy Lacey in 1977 while they were living in Oxford. When guitarist Burch left after the first year, Steve became the principal writer and singer, first playing bass and then switching to guitar, which he still plays with the current line up
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Steve Lake Bass | This incarnation played one gig at the Wokingham rock club supporting local Reading area punk band ‘Once Every 28 Days’. Playing mainly Steve Burch’s songs and one of Steve’s called ‘Government Boys’ (never played again because it was so awful). | |
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Steve Lake Bass | Continuing in the same vein, only with Nick Godwin’s Can/Krautrock influences driving the band on to intense improvising that rivaled anything being done at the time by the likes of the Patti Smith Group and Television. Zounds second gig was the first with Nick and the first to feature Steve Lake's most well known song ‘Can’t Cheat Karma’. | |
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| Jimmy Lacey Drums | |||
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Steve Lake Bass | Steve Burch departed to pursue a different trip and Lake became the chief show off, writing the bulk of the material and fronting the band. Zounds continued to develop material through improvisation, but Steve Lake’s songs pushed the bands lyrical content in a more overtly political direction. This lie up played the first Zounds London gig at the 10th anniversary of London Squatters organisation ‘the Bit Information Service’ | |
| Lawrence Wood Guitar | |||
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Steve Lake Bass | Jimmy left to eventually find infamy with the Magic Mushroom band. The band cast around for a while and teamed up with Judge at the Severn Vale Festival. Judge was a roadie for hippie free festival band Here and Now. The gig was also significant because it was the first time Zounds met The Mob, both bands regularly supported Here and Now, whose free gig philosophy infected both Zounds and The Mob. | |
| Lawrence Wood Guitar | |||
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| Nick Godwin Guitar | |||
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Steve Lake Bass | After doing the Weird Tales free tours with The Mob and the Astronauts, Nick Godwin left due to so-called musical differences. The band were getting louder and faster, and Nick had other ideas. It was a sad parting of the ways but Steve and Nick would work together in the future. Judge was always semi-detached and he was let go when The Mob's friend Joseph Porta turned up from Yeovil. | |
| Lawrence Wood Guitar | |||
| Joseph Porter Drums | |||
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Steve Lake Guitar | A desperate attempt to keep a sick band alive. The patient didn't survive. | |
| Lawrence Wood Guitar | |||
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| Tim Hutton Bass | |||
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Steve Lake Guitar | Protag played bass in the latest of Zounds line ups. He has been associated with Zounds since their earliest days of squatted gigs and free tours. His first band, the Instant Automotons, shared many bills with Zounds, and he has served the Zounds cause in a number of ways over the years, not least by borrowing the group van in 1981, writing it off, and leaving it for dead on the Great North Road in Finchley. From that moment he was in. Protag is an ex-member of the inspirational ATV and was the mainstay of the shifting Blythe Power line up for many years. Stick played the drums in the latest Zounds incarnation. You may have seen him playing with Dirt, Doom or Extreme Noise Terror. | |
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Those who also served (some for aiding and abetting)
Jonathan
Barnett
Kevin Sheridan
Phil the Terrible
Max
Brian Pugsley
Mark the Hitcher
Andy Milner
Steve Bradley
Pete Synth
Dave
Little Dave
Grant Showbiz
Shanks
Herman from Leiden
Steve and Alison
Kif-Kif
A.B.K.
Chris Hudson
Geoff Travis
Mikey Dread
Onno
Maja from Serbia