Denny's influence on London Town

[Bobber]

Back To The Egg is a great album in my humble opinion. Getting Closer and Arrow Through Me are excellent songs. Oh, if only juniorsfarm was here! (I didn't mean that  )

[raxo]

Back To The Egg is a great album in my humble opinion. Getting Closer and Arrow Through Me are excellent songs. Oh, if only juniorsfarm was here! (I didn't mean that  )

I think that tkitna likes the album a lot too ... you all know that it's not one of my favourites but I think too that is much better than London Town ... (and don't wake up nobody, Bobber, please  )

[tkitna]

Yeah, I like 'Back To The Egg' a lot. I like it a lot better than 'London Town' too. 'BTTE' is close to breaking my top 5 Macca records and I think theres a bunch of cool tunes on it.

[The End]

I really like London Town! Some great efforts by Denny too! It has a very traditional English folk influence.

[dirtyoldsod]

London Town is one of my favorite Wings albums, and Denny's songs are some of the best on the album in my opinion.

[raxo]

Welcome to the forums, dirtyoldsod ... hope you'll enjoy them!  

[dirtyoldsod]

Welcome to the forums, dirtyoldsod ... hope you'll enjoy them!  

Thanks!  

[JimmyMcCullochFan]

I've been listening to London Town a lot lately and I am noticing that Denny had a lot of influence on this album. A lot of the songs have a folky sort of native american and maybe even a gypsy feel to them. Its definately not Paul's style of writing. On London Town, Paul and Denny wrote a lot of songs together. Songs like Deliver your children(great song!), Don't let it bring you down, Backwards traveller, Famous groupies, Children Children and Moorse moose and the Grey goose definately had a Denny feel to them. The album is definately different from the rest of Wings albums. I've read somewhere that Denny was part gypsy and that might contribute to his folky sort of writing which I think is great. 'Time to hide'(Live version) was probably a noticible start to his folky type of music. London Town os a great album. I still think its wierd Wings didn't put out a harder album considering the type of shows they were playing the previous year. I think Denny deserves a lot more credit than he gets. His style of writing is great and if he did indeed write the majority of 'Mull of Kintyre' then he definately deserves some credit.

I think the reason that Wings didn't put out a harder album because by the time London Town came out, Jimmy and Joe had left the band. Jimmy added a hard rock edge to Wings as seen during the Wings Over the World tour. I think London Town would have been a completely different album if Jimmy and Joe had decided to stay in the band. Oh what could have been...

[Wordno]

Jimmy and Joe stayed for about half of the album. The songs that they played on were the songs with the heavier guitar. Songs like Moorse Moose and the Grey Goose, Name and Address, I've Had Enough, Cafe on The Left Bank, and Girls' School are the songs Jimmy and Joe played on and are definately the more guitar heavy songs on London Town. I definately agree that Jimmy added a tough rock edge to the band(Joe too! His drumming is so awesome!) and when he left the band Wings just totally fell off. Makes me wonder if Jimmy and Joe stayed in the band what Back To The Egg would have been like. Would it still have tanked the way it did? Plus, would Jimmy's death in 79 break the band up?

[JimmyMcCullochFan]

that is what i love about the "what if" scenarios. I think with that lineup, Back to the Egg would have been a success. I think the tour in '79 would have been more interesting too. Imagine Jimmy playing Old Siam, Sir (there's a demo of it from 1976 so I assume Jimmy plays on that ) and playing the infamous solo during Let It Be etc


Interesting you brought up Jimmy's death. If Wings had stayed together in my opinion Jimmy wouldn't have passed away. After he left Wings, he joined the reformed Small Faces with Steve Marriot. That lasted a month. After that Jimmy didn't do a whole hell of a lot besides drinking and taking more drugs...then in 1978 he joined a band called the Wild Horses but was let go after a short time because of health problems. In 1979 he joined a band called The Dukes and they released a self titled album (great record by the way) and Jimmy had a song on there entitled Heartbreaker. The Dukes had a minor hit single in the summer of 1979 with "Hearts In Trouble" and they toured, supporting Wishbone Ash. Soon after that, Jimmy passed away.

So basically after leaving Wings, Jimmy's life went into a downward spiral.

[JimmyMcCullochFan]

some images of Wings during the London Town sessions.

[tkitna]

Funny how all the pictures make them out to be one big, happy family, but it sure didnt end up like that.

[raxo]

Great pics, JimmyMcCullochFan!

[Wordno]

that is what i love about the "what if" scenarios. I think with that lineup, Back to the Egg would have been a success. I think the tour in '79 would have been more interesting too. Imagine Jimmy playing Old Siam, Sir (there's a demo of it from 1976 so I assume Jimmy plays on that ) and playing the infamous solo during Let It Be etc


Interesting you brought up Jimmy's death. If Wings had stayed together in my opinion Jimmy wouldn't have passed away. After he left Wings, he joined the reformed Small Faces with Steve Marriot. That lasted a month. After that Jimmy didn't do a whole hell of a lot besides drinking and taking more drugs...then in 1978 he joined a band called the Wild Horses but was let go after a short time because of health problems. In 1979 he joined a band called The Dukes and they released a self titled album (great record by the way) and Jimmy had a song on there entitled Heartbreaker. The Dukes had a minor hit single in the summer of 1979 with "Hearts In Trouble" and they toured, supporting Wishbone Ash. Soon after that, Jimmy passed away.

So basically after leaving Wings, Jimmy's life went into a downward spiral.

Is pretty sad how Jimmy's life ended up after Wings. You're probably right in the fact that he might not of died if he stayed with Wings. Maybe Wings wouldn't have broken up until much later if Jimmy and Joe stayed in the band. In Wingspan when Paul talks of Jimmy and Joe leaving he seems a bit sad. Probably because that lineup had so much chemistry and was the height of Wings. Laurence Juber and Steve Holly just didn't seem like the right fit for the band and were not a good follow up to great talents such as Jimmy McCulloch and Joe English. I would love to hear that demo of Old Siam sir with Jimmy and Joe playing on it. The album version is awesome but with the best lineup of Wings playing it must have been amazing. I think if Joe and Jimmy played on Back to the egg their influence would have made Back To the Egg what it was suppose to be; A rock album. Back To the egg was intended to be a true rock album but it failed as the majority of songs were far from rock songs. When I listen to back to the egg, it saddens me because it does not really stand up like the rest of Wings album. It just doesn't have a certain feel to it like the rest of the albums.

[JimmyMcCullochFan]

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D0V32VRP

^^ there's the demo from 1976. It's pretty different from the master version.