Phil Geezer here.

A brief history follows:

I worked with Karen Callow, (Girlfriend of John the Bomb) so I got to see the Reptiles quite a few times. I think the line-up was: Sham, Colin, John and Dom from Poland on drums.

Then all went quiet. Then the Jugglers appeared.

I remember fantastic nights at the Marquee, Half Moon, Nashville etc etc and saw the Elvis Costello support gig. Colin tells a great story of how on the second night they were onstage at 7.30 and at 9.30 he was in an empty pub in Beckenham having a pint!!! Rock'n Roll hey.

So me and my then girlfriend put an ad in the paper for a guitarist and put One the Juggler as an influence - Colin of course rings up and says I'm yer man as he has just left them. We get very close to a Major  USA Deal which falls flat at the last minute. Insanity follows including a ten year break of contact.

We also recorded a session with Sham and Mick Ronson at a studio in Leatherhead - a song called Dance to Me.

Then me and my now wife form Geezerbird and phone Colin up out of the blue and horarh he is up for it - and he's been in Geezerbird ever since.

I still believe that if you saw the Jugglers live you were hooked - live it just worked.

Check out the fantastic Geezerbird website and Geezerbird at My Space. - Mitzi

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