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The Unreliable Rekolations
Of
PETE RATTLEBONE TINDAL
Rattlebone Pete is my softer Blues personality. I only wheel Knucklehead Pete out after he has been fed
I started playing when I bought a ten shilling guitar off some guy whose girlfriend would'nt let him play anymore because she thought it was silly,( weird) I practised my moves in front of the mirror, and even started playing it. After a while I got asked to join Captain Cook and The Colonials, did one gig and broke up. I was down the beach one day and saw a dance was on that Saturday night they had no bass player so I joined up there and then, they were called "The Rocking Scorpions" . we did Cliff Richard and the Shadows covers and old Rock'n'Roll, well it was new then. This all was in 1961, it was all shiny and new, and I was there at the beginning of it all, what luck. The Scorpions were Neil Marlow on Vox, Pete Tindal on Bass, John Kisler on lead guitar, Wayne Rankin on Rhythm Guitar and Gil Mathews on drums.
We started to upgrade to the Melbourne circuit and made it through the auditions to play at the Sunday Festival Hall Shows, Which held 5000 screaming girls it was a smorgasboard, it was every young boys dream and I was in it. We recorded two tracks which got a couple of spins on Melbourne 3XY by a blind DJ called Grantley Dee. click on the link for a listen.
These are the pics from My first recording session. They were recorded in an old theatre, on a two track mono tape recorder all in together and what a noise. Time moved on and so did I, I joined the Cherokees later that year and I was off into Orbit.
Pete
Knucklehead
Tindal
has
been playing around the Juke Joints, Biker Bars and Blues Clubs since the
early sixties. His unique style of Slide Blues and hard-hitting
rock’n’roll has taken him to places most other players never dare to
go.
I then surfaced in London and did
sessions for Polygram and Warners, gigged and went back to Europe,
playing in pubs and clubs all over Germany and Belgium and Holland,
where I played the Blues, I was doing the "I am a Bluesman bit," playing
for burgers and beer and sometimes money. I used to play in the metros
in Frankfurt and gig at nite in the bars. I moved back to London where I
stayed and started a studio. Then turned up in Australia again playing
Biker club-houses, with an album called ‘Black Denim Trousers’.I returned to the UK
after becoming tired of being shot at by drunken scumbags. Finally landing
in East Sussex where I live today.
Pete Rattlebone is performing solo in small bars and pubs throughout the southeast of England, he is also playing with The Band "Chainsaw Sprocket Knucklehead and Tank", which has reformed and is recording a new album of Country Blues which will be ready in Febuary. It is a three peice power trio singing songs of Biker lifestyle.
