Mike Rudd's 1st BASE in Crudd's Retrum-Spectro

Music • Acoustic

1st BASE's repertoire is drawn from the occasionally confronting, often witty, but never less than intriguing catalogue of songs penned by Mike Rudd (and his alter-ego My Crudd) from the early '70s to the present day.

There are the singles of course, like the most famous of all Rudd's songs, I'll Be Gone (Someday I'll have money), followed by Murtceps' Esmeralda and Ariel's Jamaican Farewell, but most of the material is drawn from the albums such as Spectrum Part One and Milesago, Spectrum's alter-ego band The Indelible Murtceps' Warts Up Your Nose, Ariel's A Strange Fantastic Dream and Rock & Roll Scars.

There are the newer songs too, and now Mike has a new palette to play with in 1st BASE, perhaps we can anticipate new era of Rudd-songs to emerge.

In the meantime you can enjoy watching and listening to Mike Rudd's evolution from a well-established rock artist to singer/songwriter/raconteur playing an accessible version of his oeuvre with a couple of the best musicians around.

Presented by: Mike Rudd

Mike Rudd’s 1st BASE sees piano accordionist George Butrumlis (Black Sorrows, Zydeco Jump, The Purple Dentists and Raga Dolls) and bassist Jeremy Alsop (Ron Charles Band, Allan Zavod, The David Chesworth Ensemble) on double bass joining Spectrum’s Mike Rudd in an acoustic-skewed reappraisal of his previously all-electric output.
Mike Rudd is best known for writing Spectrum’s 1971 national number one hit single, I’ll Be Gone, (Someday I’ll have money), but he also wrote the majority of the material in the subsequent albums produced by Spectrum, The Indelible Murtceps, Ariel, Mike Rudd & the Heaters and WHY, which amounts to a considerable legacy.
More recently there have been other projects, including the Mike Rudd & Bill Putt’s Living on a Volcano CD and the Breathing Space series of EPs that saw the re-adoption of the grand old Spectrum monicker bringing us to the present day.
For 1st BASE, Mike has chosen songs from his solo repertoire that respond to being stripped back and reworked

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