Is it true that Frankies RUMBLEDOWN BAND featured not only you but also Paul Kossoff?
Firstly, to clarify, it was never really a band. I always did what I could to support Frankie. But I always considered it his thing. If he called it the RUMBLEDOWN BAND, I figured that was his business. In fact, I was only vaguely aware of the name later maybe. We would write songs together, and if he said, “Would you be able to come to this rehearsal, or should we make decent recordings of these songs?”, I would just support him. We never had a deal together, or were ever on the same label, I just helped Frankie. I believe one night when in the studio, Koss dropped by – in fact he lived just a couple of streets away from Islands Basing Streer Studios, and agreed to put on some guitar. He was even less a member of ‘the band’. – THE SHARKS’ “First Water” was quite a good record, so why you felt disillusioned in the project and left to strike on your own a bit later? Just before SHARKS, I was about to get into the mode of developing vocally again. That was the intention when it was still
