Stack Waddy

Stack Waddy were a British blues rock band from Timperley, Manchester, who were active in the late 1960s and early 1970s and again in 2007. Signed to John Peel's Dandelion label, the original line up of John Knail, Mick Stott, Stuart Banham and Steve Revel (replaced by John Groom on second album) released two albums and singles before breaking up for a while in 1973. They have reconvened several times with their second line up of Knail, Stott, Banham and Groom; with the last get together for the Dandelion Records biographical DVD film shoot in July 2007.

Links To Peel
Peel produced the band's second album called Bugger Off and on his 03 March 1989 (BFBS) show described his experience with the group on making the LP:

"'Now this was an LP that I produced. The reason it had its title was that every time I played something through for level (we used to record things virtually live in those days, there was none of this month in a studio in Nassau)...I would say to them, 'That's fine, can we do that one?,' they'd say 'Bugger off! We've played that one once,' and refused to do it again, so they were not easy people to work with....They were a repellent bunch. I used to really like 'em a lot, I must say, but tried to keep 'em at arms' length. They came to stay with me once when I was still living in London, and I've never fully recovered from the experience. The idea was that I should play them through some new material that they could perhaps record when they next went into the studio. All they did was just got immensely drunk and passed out on the floor....They were a brutal bunch and what's become of them now I simply don't know. Folklore has it that one of them was a deserter from the British Army and had to retreat quickly to Ireland, but whether this is true or not....I know that another one of them spent some time in a mental institution but may now be, as it were, liberated again. But as for the other two....serving terms of imprisonment, I'm willing to have a small bet with you, but I don't know this for sure. But they were a great band: perhaps I should play you one of their records, perhaps next week. I quite clearly haven't got it secreted about my person this week.'"

Sessions
1. Recorded: 1972-01-24. Broadcast: 18 February 1972
 * Hoochie Coochie Man / Rock Me Baby / You Really Got Me / Willie The Pimp

Other Shows Played
1970 1989
 * 05 September 1970: Kentucky (LP – Stack Waddy) Dandelion
 * 09 September 1989 (BFBS) / Peel 116 (BFBS): 'I'm A Lover Not A Fighter (LP-Bugger Off!)' (Dandelion)