The Troggs 'Night of the Long Grass'

The Troggs are playing the Frome festival. 15th July at the Cheese and Grain. The Troggs are the West's own punk rock originators coming from Andover but spreading their influence all over the region. For example I was talking to someone last night who saw them in a pub in Gillingham Dorset when they were called Ten Feet Five and were asking in all the various bars if there was a drummer in the house. Reg Presley's lusty lyrics conjured up images of rural licentiousness, though they often fell foul of misinterpration - this song 'Night of the Long Grass' was banned because the word 'grass' was mistakenly thought to mean cannibas rather than er, grass! Reg and the band spurned drugs but to keep up to date wrote songs where they imagined the effects of drugs. The results heard in 'Purple shades' include such lines as 'Giant butterflies almost twice my size' and 'giant teddy bears, climbing up the stairs' - brilliant!
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