I regretted not mentioning Kreupper after hitting post. Love him to death
when Kreupper left the group.
ummm, kre-upper or kuepper (pronounced koo/per) as he is more commonly known. did not leave the saints. chubby cheeks bailey left the saints in the uk just before prehistoric sounds was recorded, but consented to do vocals for the album in a contractual obligation type arangement. kuepper then dissolved the saints and returned to australia. while fat boy bailey stayed in the uk and started another band called 'the saints'. i believe this is source of the long running feud and outright hostility between bailey and kuepper and why kuepper has used 'the aints' when doing saints type stuff thereafter.
i agree there has been
some good saints stuff post kuepper. but thats 'chris bailey's the saints' not the saints. bailey's saints are a much more trad rock/pop proposition minus the wipe your nose on your sleeve attitude and utter scortch intensity.
the attitude and the intensity was what it was all about for me. without that i quickly lost interest.
you can hear some hot garage influence bubbling underneath. I love how ahead of the times they were and to think they were coming up with this sound around the same time as the Ramones were doing there thing, but on the other side of the planet. I love that they seem like regular unpretentious guys. I love the message of freedom in the music.
agree with most of that, but think the sound bubbling underneath is more elvis and rhythm and blues and motown cranked up and driven insane by the tropical brisbane heat and boredom and repression of queensland in the early '70s. thats what i hear anyway, but then i grew up less than a hundred miles away in the same era (i'm 5 or 6 yrs younger tho) and believe me, the idea that anything that good, could come out of that place, at that time, still blows my tiny little mind to this very day.
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