Booby Trap –Kelly, Grace and Sally/ The Hooker –Ariola 13 336 (1974 NL)
If it wasn’t for the that fact that Booby Trap appeared for about 30 seconds on Van Oekel’s Discohoek (a zany Dutch TV-show back then), then we wouldn’t even have known of Booby Trap’s existence in the first place! Bass guitarist Albert Schierbeek was a sound engineer and later guitarist with Dutch rock-legends The Bintangs (his brother Harry played drums with them all through the seventies). Fronted by the fine voice and Jagger-like aesthetics of vocalist Jan Rijbroek, Kelly, Grace and Kelly sports a very snappy and catchy Sweet- like tune with ancillary handclaps and ample guitar-riffage. While Jan Rijbroek seems to extol the merits of a ménage a trois on the A side, the B side finds him imploring his girlfriend not to go on the game! The Hooker features a mean slide guitar riff and falls somewhere between The Flamin' Groovies’ Slow Death and Shot In The Head (Haffy’s Whiskey Sour/ Savoy Brown) albeit in a more poppy vein.
Note: Kelly, Grace and Sally is the opening track on the compilation “Clap Your Hands And Stamp Your Feet” to be released on the 20th of April on Excelsior -more details and full track listing soon!!!
Hear an edit of Kelly, Grace and Sally and The Hooker.
If it wasn’t for the that fact that Booby Trap appeared for about 30 seconds on Van Oekel’s Discohoek (a zany Dutch TV-show back then), then we wouldn’t even have known of Booby Trap’s existence in the first place! Bass guitarist Albert Schierbeek was a sound engineer and later guitarist with Dutch rock-legends The Bintangs (his brother Harry played drums with them all through the seventies). Fronted by the fine voice and Jagger-like aesthetics of vocalist Jan Rijbroek, Kelly, Grace and Kelly sports a very snappy and catchy Sweet- like tune with ancillary handclaps and ample guitar-riffage. While Jan Rijbroek seems to extol the merits of a ménage a trois on the A side, the B side finds him imploring his girlfriend not to go on the game! The Hooker features a mean slide guitar riff and falls somewhere between The Flamin' Groovies’ Slow Death and Shot In The Head (Haffy’s Whiskey Sour/ Savoy Brown) albeit in a more poppy vein.
Note: Kelly, Grace and Sally is the opening track on the compilation “Clap Your Hands And Stamp Your Feet” to be released on the 20th of April on Excelsior -more details and full track listing soon!!!
Hear an edit of Kelly, Grace and Sally and The Hooker.
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All 30 seconds are on YouTube now...
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