Terry Woods- bass, Me- vocals / guitar, Wilby Meadows - keyboards / guitar,
Bob Parker - drums, Steve Andrews - guitar
You can download songs from The Retreads here:
The Retreads website at Detour Records:
Until January 2010 The Retreads were "history" (the early Retreads story you can see in detail at the Detour Records link above) but then I received a call from Dizzy holmes of Detour Records in London to tell me that a contact of his named Nobu from 1977 Records in Japan wanted to re-release The Retreads single. After picking myself up off the floor I started to try and track down all the guys. Terry and Bob still lived in Rushden, Wilby was also not far away in Northampton, Steve and myself were farther afield in Arizona and Germany. The news was greeted with more than some surprise but also an element of validation of the quality of the record and of who cares if it's 30 years at last someone has discovered us! The wheels were soon set in motion to get master tapes over to Japan, fortunately I still had the tapes and these I had digitized and mailed over. Nobu already had a copy of the original single to reproduce the cover from. The single was reproduced in "spanking" red vinyl to match the cover and released in August. Soon there were many different companies throughout the world offering copies for sale and with this renewed interest we planned a Retreads reunion for the next time I was in England, For the rest of the story jump here:
Below is a movie of a very early Retreads rehearsal only a few weeks into the formation of the band with our original drummer Kevin Jacobs (thanks to Janet Davies for providing the movie).
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