(Many thanks to those who have also taken the trouble and time to create and upload their own Fresh Maggots related MySpace pages)
These are the sleeve notes from our album “Fresh Maggots” (RCA Victor SRMC 1039), released in 1971)
"Fresh Maggots are just two people – 19 year olds Mick Burgoyne and Leigh Dolphin from Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England – and long before this album was conceived they were inspiring music journalists to the sort of fulsome praise usually reserved for established stars.
Mick plays electric guitar with remarkable virtuosity and adds to their sound, glockenspiel, tambourine, violin and two tin whistles in harmony. Leigh contributes his considerable talent on acoustic guitar and writes the music to match Mick’s lyrics.
Between them and producer Mike Berry they have made an album which brings new life to the area of today’s music we call folk/ rock."
The tracks from our album have since been re-released, together with our single "Car Song/ What would you say" and seven bonus tracks, by Sunbeam Records on a CD entitled "Hatched" (SBRCD5002) and can be purchased from the following link: http://soundlinkmusic.com/catalog/sunbeam/fresh-maggots-hatched/prod_4.html A vinyl version is also available from the same site.
Some of our tracks will be available here as downloads shortly.
I..m so proud to be your friend now. I love the album. I..ve heard it for the first time in 1995 in our tourbus. The busdriver had an tape and we heard it every night on the highway. The whole band liked it. But there was no chance to get the tape from the busdriver, he wanted the tape only for himself, this bastard :-).I asked in every record store but it was not possible to get the record. I was waiting for 10 years to get a CD and now I..m the owner of an 180 g vinyl.
