Dave Twist
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Early pen pal of Morrissey's.
Describes meeting him in a 2021 Hero Magazine interview:
"I was sixteen in 76 and couldn’t find a single one of my friendship group who’d accompany me to see the Patti Smith Group. Most subscribed to the Melody Maker opinion that the band couldn’t play and that she looked like a man… All of that crap that the emerging scene had to breakthrough. So, shoving my copy of Horses into a carrier bag, I headed for New Street alone. Way too early for the show I found myself down the wide side alley and listening to the soundcheck at the stage door. The only other fan waiting there was a youth who said he’d travelled from Manchester; wedge cut hair, clear plastic ‘Bowie’ sandals, national health spectacles. We got talking, he said that his name was Steven Morrissey and he wanted to start a New York Dolls appreciation society. We exchanged addresses. We’d compared our collections: records and clippings. All of this stuff was so hard to come by in mid-70s Britain. Steven was desperate for any ‘swaps’ I might have and I knew that I had a couple of duplicate photos from Rock Scene and told him I’d mail them to him. One of these – of the Dolls onstage at the Mercer Arts Centre – was cropped out and included in his book. Steven was absolutely desperate though to acquire from me my import picture sleeve promo 45 of Trash/Personality Crisis. I really have no idea how I came to keep his letters, but I did. Here’s the first with its envelope where, complete with misheard error, he’d scrawled the lyrics to Patti’s Kimberly on the reverse."
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British drummer Born 22 May 1960 in Moseley, Birmingham, U.K. 1977 - vocalist for Shock Treatment. 1977 - 1978 - drummer for T.V. Eye. Late 1978 - January 1979 - drummer for The Prefects. 1979 - 1981 - drummer for Obviously Five Believers, a.k.a. The Subterranean Hawks, a.k.a. The Hawks. 1982 - drummer for The Bible Belt. December 1982 - 1985 - drummer for The Scarecrows. 1999 - 2004 - drummer for Dave Kusworth And The Tenderhooks. 2005 - 2009 - drummer for The Dave Kusworth Group.
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