Recorded in London in 1976, Major Surgery’s lone album is mid-Seventies jazz rock, Jimmy Roche’s electric guitar funkily truncating behind Don Weller’s Kojak sax, but not as we know it.
The quartet weren’t the smooth operators soon to characterize UK jazz, nor the anti-melodic improvisers already embedded in the scene’s underbelly, though drummer Tony Marsh was to become a mainstay of the movement. Instead, they suggest a beer goggle Mahavishnu Orchestra, micro-budget mystics surging towards nirvana on pub palette stages, defiantly rattling the bars.
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Al Murray, Comedian
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Fowkes81, Twitter
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
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Emilyistrendy, Youtube
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Carla, St Albans, Dailymail.co.uk
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Jackmumf, Twitter
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Idrie, Youtube
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Anonymous, The Northfield Patriot
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Stokeylitfest, Twitter
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Alwyn, Digiguide.tv
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Gabrielle, Chortle.com
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Mrdavisn01, Twitter
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Sidsings000, Youtube
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Leach Juice, Twitter
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Aaron, comedy.co.uk
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Contrapuntal, Twitter
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Mpf1947, Youtube
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Peter Ould, Twitter
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John Robins, Comedian
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Lenny Darksphere, Twitter
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Rudeness, Youtube
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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Cojones2, Guardian.co.uk
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Stuart, Chortle
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Rowing Rob, Guardian.co.uk
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Slothy Matt, Twitter
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Joycey, readytogo.net
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NevW47479, UKTV.co.uk
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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Liam Travitt, Twitter
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Horatio Melvin, Twitter
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Borathigh5, Youtube
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A D Ward, Twitter
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Secretdeveloper, Youtube
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Dahoum, Guardian.co.uk
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Cabluigi, Guardian.co.uk
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Keilloh, Twitter
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Mini-x2, readytogo.net
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Guest, Dontstartmeoff.com
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98rosjon, Twitter
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Meninblack, Twitter
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk