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First off, I hate that song and I always did. Second, we don’t own the rights to it. The guy that wrote it ain’t my friend, so rather than go through all the crap and have to deal with someone I don’t like, we figured you might as leave off the song that the rest of us wanted off in the first place. It wasn’t a “rewrite” more of an “I can’t be bothered.”What are your memories of recording Skinhead Glory?
Well, I wrote about it in my novel Hated and Proud, but basically it was done in a basement on an eight track in about a day. There were cats running around the place and the vocal booth was a corner of the room next to the washer and dryer. Mark the guitarist dropped the amp and it sort of broke, I think one speaker blew, which is what gives the guitar that sound. It was a Fender Deluxe, with MXR Distortion pedal; the little mustard coloured ones. That is, if anyone wants to know!
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Well from what I remember it was quite good, but I’ts not like we had charts and videos and all. It was all word of mouth. The crowds we played to were pretty good so we must have been doing something right. Mind you Maximum Rock ‘N’ Roll hated it but then so fucking what!

To be honest, I’m fucked if I know. They just decided one day that we were the enemy and that was it as far as they were concerned. I mean this started when Flex Your Head came out. They didn’t know us nor did they try to get in touch first to find out about us, they just decided it and that was it. You know, I don’t mind if you don’t like the band, if we are not to your taste, that’s fine, taste is subjective, you know what I mean? But don’t just make up crap and then spout it without getting the facts, or any facts at all, right. I mean, I lived at Dischord house, it’s not like I lived in a tree and was incommunicado. Pick the phone up AND ASK!After the break-up of Iron Cross sometime in ’84 or ’85, where did Sab Grey go?
I hung around for about a year not really doing much. I tried forming a couple bands, but they didn’t really work out. You know the deal; two gigs and a break up. Then I went back to England. I got married, had three kids, got divorced, played in bands, a lot of rockabilly and country and blues. Then I moved back here for a bit, and somehow the years snuck by and here I am.
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