Amsterdam label Wap Shoo Wap has announced the release of long lost UK proto-punks Bastard, featuring guitarist Brian James of the Damned and Elton Motello front man and drummer Alan Ward and Nobby Goff. From the labels bandcamp-
Some records arrive fashionably late.
This one has taken 52 years.
Talk about making the collector nerd sweat, imagine if the MC5 had replaced Rob Tyner with Alice Cooper. Could have happened maybe but as far as I know it didn’t. But if it had, I imagine it might sound like the A-side “Doctor Gong” by Bastard. Recorded in 1974, there are no previous releases of this rarity, bootleg or otherwise. Pre-order now, official release date June 26th, only 300 copies worldwide.
Check out this clip of Alan Ward talking about Bastard-
