- Steve Marriott Blind Drunk -

This DVD contains two rare and previously unreleased videos of Steve Marriott performing live. The first concert is from 1978 and shows Steve performing with Joe Brown's band as Blind Drunk at the Bridge House in Canning Town London. This gig was a chaotic affair and shows Steve enjoying himself along with guest stars Joe Brown and Chas n Dave. You are unlikely to find footage of these four together let alone singing a rendition of Chas n Dave's Massage Parlour. The second gig is from 1985 when Steve was touring as Packet of Three with Jim Leverton and Fallon Williams.

Although the picture quality is rough and has not withstood the passage of time as one would like, the audio quality is great and the concerts will be unmissable for all Marriott fans and followers. It has taken over 40 years to unearth and transfer this material and nurse it back to health, we hope it will give you as much pleasure in watching this as it has been for us creating it.

The thrill of this gig was seeing major recording stars having fun on stage. We can only imagine the stress and worry they go through when they are playing to thousands of fans who are listening to every note and word spoken. So to see these musicians on stage enjoying themselves, smoking, drinking and swearing, not caring about the mistakes they may make is a rare thing.

One day Steve Marriott walked into the Bridge House with Laurie O'Leary, who introduced Steve to me. I had known Laurie for many years and I was delighted when Stevie said, "Can you give us a gig, I'm just back from America and really fancy a blow." Laurie said that he was managing Steve now, so I said okay you can play next week, it will have to be a secret gig as we are only licensed for 500 customers.

I knew it was going to be a great night ,so I arranged for it to be filmed. I got a local man it who had assured me it was his special pastime, he suggested using video instead of film as this would be more practical. At this time there were no video cassettes so it was filmed on reel to reel video. Film would have cost thousands and lighting would have to be so bright it would have blinded everyone on stage. Of course we listened to him because we didn't know any better.

Stevie was one of the many stars to play at the Bridge and performed on both stages. The first gig from 1978 shows you him on the old stage. The gig from 1985 shows how he would have looked on the new one when he changed the bands name to Packet of Three. Steve toured America with this band and had some great gigs even though it was a low key tour. He was soon back in his beloved Britain, for all of us to enjoy his wonderful talent. His loyal friend Jim Liverton on bass guitar and vocals was always with him.

Love you Steve. R.I.P Regards Terry Murphy.