A one-off label from 1979. Bootlegger's sole offering was a single, 'Get On Down' by a group named Striker Blue; the story of that single used to be able to be found at the 45 Revolutions site, but the link I had no longer works. This was the text from it, anyway: "Though released in 1979 and credited to Striker Blue, this rare single essentially features recordings made sometime earlier in the decade by an un-named combo comprising Roger Crisp (ex-Riot Squad/Stewart James Inspiration/Crazy Mabel) and Dave Clark (v), with possibly Mick Connolly (gtr, ex-Crazy Mabel) and Paul Francis (d). In 1979, Roger Crisp and Barry Herd (ex-O’Hara’s Playboys) decided to issue the old recordings and, following an overdub session at Olympic Studios with Jimmy Jewell (sax, see listing; he had also played with Crisp in Stewart James Inspiration and was a session musician with many acts through the ’60s and ’70s, including Bunk Dogger). The single was released through a custom-pressing service unusually offered by CBS Records (hence the CBS logo on the labels). LOYALTY TO THE BOARD is no more than a pleasant but largely uninteresting mix of West Coast Rock and British Blues sensibilities, but the basic Hard Rock riffing of GET ON DOWN should appeal to NWOBHM fans, with its enthusiastic and sometimes Free Jazz saxophone perhaps also finding favour with New Wave collectors." It was a CBS custom pressing, then, which explains the CBS logo at the top of the label. Thanks to Robert Bowes for the scan and for bringing the label to my attention.
Copyright 2008 Robert Lyons.