Two more from the memory banks to get your Tuesday started...

Drop

Head On

~Jesus & Mary Chain

Just Like Honey -- 2007 -- the boys, all grown up.

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The brothers started recording and sending demos to record companies in 1983, and by early 1984 they had recruited bass player Douglas Hart and teenage drummer Murray Dalglish.

Early influences included The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, and The Shangri-Las, William stating in 1985 "We all love The Shangri-Las, and one day we're going to make Shangri-Las records." Early demos displayed a similarity to the Ramones, prompting the brothers to add another element to their sound, in William's words "That's why we started using noise and feedback. We want to make records that sound different."

They began playing live in Spring 1984. In the early days Jim Reid's guitar would be left out of tune, while Dalglish's drumkit was limited to two drums, and Hart's bass guitar only had three strings, down to two by 1985. In Hart's words "that's the two I use, I mean what's the fucking point spending money on another two? Two is enough."