Saturday October 30th 1976

Teezer, previously know as Cosmic Love were formed in Great Yarmouth East Anglia in 1974.

The name Cosmic Love was replaced by Tezzer along with bass player Chris Smith who after many auditions for the right person was replaced by Willy Kimbiling, now we have the same line up that became the Crabs.

The Crabs were vocalist/guitarist Tony Diggines, guitarist Ronnie Rocker, drummer Ricci Titcombe and bassist William Kimbling.
They supported the likes of X-Ray Spex, The Lurkers, Sham 69, The Jam & Siouxsie & The Banshees and many others and regularly played famous punk venues like The Roxy & Vortex.

Also known as The Fulham Furies for a side project. After The Crabs members became the backing band for Gary Holton and played with Max Splodge.
During the eighties Ronnie Rocker played with The Angelic Upstarts and The Godfathers.

Our New manager Roger Webster also a DJ got us to improve us musically by sentencing us too years of gigging around Norfolk and Suffolk youth clubs, most of these gigs was our own promotion hiring the hall, door men and running the bar selling soft drinks as getting gigs in those days was near impossible.
This was good training for the band, we where learning new experiences in running a business, putting on shows in towns we never been before, the pros and cons of promotion your self and learning more songs all at the age of 17.

We had grown up musically as well and now started to listen to more heavy rock like AC DC as well as Sweet, Slade, Bowie and T.Rex.
I can admit that after supporting them at the Comer links we as a band along with many other musicians was inspired and impressed by the band the 'Heavy Metal Kids'.
This was the first time I had seen a stage show that entertained your eyes as well as your ears.
HMK was ahead of there times; they were punk before punk was even invented and after supporting them they when on to open up for Alice Copper on a USA tour, I don't know if Alice nicked there stage act or if Gary Holton nicked Alice's but I did see Alice do a similar act years later? HMK a great live band that deserved to be massive but was not meant to be.
Teezer now put in some of the HMK songs and vibes in there set along with our first original songs but we still did not know which direction we where going in 25% Rock 25% Teeny bop and 50% a new direction after seeing the Clash on the so-called Sex Pistols tour.

Sourced from www.punk77.co.uk/groups/crabs.htm

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06.07.2008. 19:02

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