Happy Trails: Andrew Lauder's Charmed Life and High Times in the Record Business

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Both of the companies didn’t get on as Liberty was very West coast, Los Angeles based whereas UA was very East coast. On the Liberty sampler Gutbucket (1969) Lauder placed The Bonzo's spoof 'Can Blue Men Sing The Whites' directly after Tony McPhee's 'No More Doggin'. Shindig Happy Trails gives the reader a window into a charmed life that most of us can only dream of. I am currently working for a small renewable energy company which is involved in most of the major technologies as a consultant.

I’d got to know Lemmy pretty well because he used to come in and hang out in the office when Hawkwind weren’t on the road or in the studio.He has co-written autobiographies by Eddie and Brian Holland, New York Doll Sylvain Sylvain and Walter Lure of Johnny Thunder’s Heartbreakers.

I went up to the Electric Circus to see the Buzzcocks with Penetration, John Cooper-Clarke and Joy Division when they were Stiff Kittens. Lauder’s far-sighted recruitment of Amon Düül II and Can lit the fuse for the “Krautrock” explosion of the early 1970s (a term, incidentally, that he loathed); and Lauder who effectively god-parented the pub rock boom a couple of years later. Initially noted for his adventurous signings of bands as diverse as Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Can, Hawkwind and Brinsley Schwarz to Liberty Records and United Artists Records in the 1960s and 70s, he went on to form numerous independent labels including Radar Records, F-Beat Records and Demon Music Group. Lauder brought the Flamin' Groovies to Britain even though they had been turned down by United Artists in the US.It helped because it was Dai and he knew everybody in the company so it was quick and all pretty painless.

Andrew Lauder is one of British record business's most significant and highly influential figures but outside the music industry few people will probably know his name.JASON ISBELL'S new album combines fears for America with lessons learned from sobriety and Scorsese. I’d already put Lemmy in touch with American artist Joe Petagno who’d done artwork for Dr Feelgoods’ Malpractice and Joe came up with the first version of the now familiar skull logo.