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| Diesel Park West are a rock band from Leicester, England.Smith (drums, born 23 July 1951).Rich Barton (guitar, born July 1957)...Filbert Street ground), although they would also occasionally appear as The Psychedelic Filberts.Their main influences come from the West Coast sound of 1960s bands like Moby Grape, Buffalo Springfield and Love.The Byrds' "Lady Friend" on the Obscure Independent Classics volume 2 LP, a cover of The Beatles "Rain" which was included on Yeah Yeah Noh's final release, the Temple Of Convenience EP, and "Atlantis 1968", which appeared on the He Didn't Even Draw A Fish On My Shower Curtain compilation.They got their answer on Good Friday 1987, when Butler received a call from David Balfe from the small indie label Food Records.Eventually they came up with Diesel Park West, based on the fact that Barkby Road Studios was in a lorry park in the west of Leicester.EMI became very interested in the band, and bought Food records in able to get them!With a big label now behind the band, they went into Olympic Studios in January 1988 to start work on their debut album.The album, 'Shakespeare Alabama', was released on 30th January.However,it was a start and something to build on.This left the Diesel's in a difficult position as although they had many of the same influences (!August 1989 the band fell quiet.In September 1990 they headed off to Belgium to work with Laurie Latham.Although recording went relatively smoothly, the lack of a drummer meant that a drum machine was used on many tracks.When the album, 'Decency', was eventually released on 3 February 1992, it sold poorly reaching number 57 and was out of the charts within a couple of weeks.Songs such as 'Somewhere in the Afterglow', 'Hot Summer Water' and second single 'Boy on Top of the News' showed the band on top form.Demon Records, who also had Elvis Costello on their books.Diesel Park West vs.The album had a much rawer sound than Decency and it benefited from the quick recording.It seemed that time was up for Diesel Park West and, after a farewell concert in Leicester, the band split.They had slid down the label food chain and although the songwriting was never in question it looked like the bands moment had gone.Each album had met with fewer and fewer sales and the large crowds that had gathered to see them in 1989 had pretty much disappeared.John Butler had by this point signed to Chrysalis Records for a solo deal.Then out of the blue in 1998, Diesel Park West returned with a new album 'HIPReplacement', although 'new' may be overstating the case as the album was made up of songs recorded before the band split, during their 'FreakGene' sessions.They had signed to very small indie label, Thunderbird in Oxford and it came with a bonus CD made up of the 'Shakespeare Alabama' demos.Perversely although the band toured in support of the album, they never played any tracks from it and rarely mentioned it at gigs.Their sixth album, 'Thought For Food' duly arrived in August to national ignorance.During this time Geoff Beavan fell ill with cancer and had to undergo major surgery.To complete their deal with Thunderbird Records, a compilation of the demos from 'Shakespeare Alabama' and 'Decency' called 'King of Ghosts' was released in 2002.August 2006 of 'Shakespeare Alabama' brought the band some welcome attention.The disc called 'Damned Anthems' features footage from 1988 to 1992 of the band in Germany, Switzerland and Sweden as well as some Butler and Willson acoustic gigs.The follow up single 'Personal Lives' came out in August.Rob Morris (ex Crazyhead) joined on drums.The Diesel's even got radio play for the single 'There's a Grace' for the first time since 1993, albeit on late night radio.Y, Buffalo Springfield and, of course, Moby Grape.Diesel Park West in 2006.Diesel Park West vs.Hello Diesel Park West....Hi, Hope it all is going great for you guys.If you're around on Saturday we have Cantaloop (www.Hey guys just thought i'd pop by, still loving your sounds!RickGlad you could do this gig for us.Hi Diesel Park West,Played 'Alabama' until may ears bled all those years ago.All The Myths On Sunday' is one of the greatest pop singles ever!HiThanks for the addLove jason xwww.Have seen you several times all over the place...Hi Guys,
Welcome aboard The Rocket!Hey Guys,
been a fan since 'Jackie's Still Sad'.How you gonna celibrate the 20th Anniversary next year then?"Shakespeare Alabama" on import British vinyl as soon as it came out.Beejayus, sounds fecking good.Good luck with all that's new and all that's old still shines on in our hearts.Been a fan for long long long long long!Grapefruit in your coffee?Real" on my site was recorded and produced By Rick at Barkby Road.Really loved "when the Hoodoo comes".Hello, sending you lot lot of good wishes, wishing you wonderful times.Hi,thanx for adding me to your list of friends.Nice to find you here on MySpace and great to be accepted as your friend.AGONY BAG has talked me about Diesel Park West and he also mentioned "Shakespeare Alabama" is a great album!Clive told me:"Geoff still plays bass guitar like a demon!".Do you wish to continue your form submission?"Id + " Text: " + targetLink.Diesel Park West
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What About Us!You can be the first person to write a journal about Diesel Park West.We're conducting a survey and would like your input.Marakesh Express Tour begins in
January 2008!Personal Lives
cd single
Coming soon!Diesel ParkWest
DVD Damned Anthems is
available for purchase.Angel Air
Records The catalog number is: NJPDVD628.NTSC for all of the DPW fans in North
America.In Germany before the War, 2.Good times Liberation
Blues
3.Diesel Park West
videos!Diesel Park West
version of Hung Upside Down.Diesel Park West release
"What Kept You?"Fans outside of Europe
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