It's Nice To Be Important - The Bermondsey Joyriders

PATTI PALLADIN one time girlfriend and musical collaborator of JOHNNY THUNDERS recently spoke to GARY LAMMIN on the telephone. Patti had heard THE BERMONDSEY JOYRIDERS Johnny Thunders tribute track "PART OF MY PROBLEM" and Patti told Gary that PART OF MY PROBLEM was one of the best if not "THE" best tribute songs that she had heard for Johnny Thunders and THE NEW YORK DOLLS. Adding that THE BERMONDSEY JOYRIDERS had refreshingly captured The True Spirit of Johnny and The Dolls without having to resort to the usual crass statements and references regarding drugs.

Patti also told Gary that she would play PART OF MY PROBLEM to as many people as she could.

Thank You Patti.

Perhaps maybe that was why when Malcolm Mclaren was still trying to turn THE SEX PISTOLS into another New York Dolls that Malcolm would try on more than one occasion to poach Lammin from his band of that time to audition as second guitarist for The Pistols. Maybe also thats why Lammin recently found himself playing guitar for legendary MC5 manager JOHN SINCLAIR.

SO ARE YOU READY ? COS WE GOT LOUD ROCK N ROLL IF YOU WANT IT !

The Bermondsey Joyriders are a loud, fast and furious.. no holds barred ...Rock N Roll power trio.

Members of The Bermondsey Joyriders are Gary Lammin ( principal songwriter of Cock Sparrer 1974 to 1978)

Martin Stacey (principal songwriter of Chelsea 1976 to 1977 )

AND NOW ! From the legendary Heavy Metal Kids Keith Boyce on drums.

Lammin explains. " I've never been able to get a REAL Rock 'n' Roll drummer in any band I've played in before now. Sure there have been some good "rock" drummers but just being a rock drummer ain't where it's at for me because if a drummer cant make it ROLL as well as just making it Rock then pretty soon I get restless. That's actually one of the reasons I was playing solo for some time. TRUE Rock N Roll drummers are so rare to find let alone actually have in your band. Ok there's Charlie Watts of course, but he was busy with some R'n'B band from Dartford and Kenney Jones was always playing Polo. So that left the only other true Rock N Roll drummer on earth that I could think off. Keith Boyce of The Heavy Metal Kids ! So when Keith Boyce asked me out of the blue recently if I fancied a few beers I replied actually Keith how about a few rehearsals instead ? To which Keith said "Yeah sure why not...but lets have a few beers as well"

Together therefore finally someone has actually re-captured and re-created some 30 years after the anniversary of punk what punk rock was actually originally all about. Its Rock N Roll and The Message is JUST DO IT. The Bermondsey Joyriders are here to play/storm/invade any gig where the true spirit of '76 exists. GOT LOUD ROCK N ROLL IF YOU WANT IT! Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.