Why did Palmolive wind up quitting? Were her musical tastes diverging?
No, I dunno if she was quitting or if we all said it’s not gonna work. Because she was really good in that one way of drumming – that crazy tribal [makes tribal thumping sound], you know? She couldn’t do anything else. And if you listen to Cut there’s all kinds of different drumming on it. But there was only one style that Palmolive did, and that was the style we had in ’77. How did Budgie join the band? Why didn’t you get another female? I have no idea how that happened! Good question. But there wasn’t any females! There weren’t any female drummers at the time. There were none in the punk, underground and reggae environment. Even now it’s hard to find them. We auditioned a million drummers at one time and oh, it was dreary. So I think I wiped that chapter out of my memory. Even one Jamaican guy played ‘Grapevine’. The drums on that is a Jamaican drummer. But he didn’t stick with us; he could only do one style as well, in the reggae style, funky, whatever. How did Dennis Bovell come in
