Bobbin'Noggins 4ever!

Proto-punk rockers were the Nogs

2007-01-15T08:25:00.000-08:00

The Bobbin' Noggins, one of the heavyweights of rock music, are generally placed in the top rank of rockers along with Air Supply and The Bay City Rollers. Many consider the Nogs to be the greatest rockers of all time. Originally a seminal punk rock trio, these young prodigies wrote their first rock tune at age 8, then grew into a prolific adults who wrote over 3600 pieces of music. Among their most famous works are "The Ballad of Ulker Gokberk", "Boise Noise" and the rock operas "You Rooka Rike A Hail"(1987) and "Pickleweed!" (1991).

2007-01-14T02:41:00.000-08:00

ANCIENT NOGGIN PHOTO FOUND!
The Noggin kitchen midden (presently Beaverton, Oregon), discovered in 1947 by Arnold Cur, a fifth-year elementary school student at the time, was excavated and surveyed by Oregon State University in 1949 and a photograph in almost perfect condition was discovered mixed in with shards of pottery and instruments made of bone and antler.
Research showed that this photo was the oldest ever found from the Early Nog period.

The ‘Lost Bobbin' Noggins National Anthem'

2007-01-11T16:54:00.000-08:00

When record producer Dave Chapman acquired the old Crouch Hill recording studios in London’s Stroud Green in 1994, he came across an old tea chest full of eight-track analogue tapes dating from the 1960s and 70s.

For want of a machine old enough to play the tapes, the tea chest sat in Chapman’s attic until 1998 when he bought an old Ampex tape recorder at an auction of professional recording equipment. He began listening to the tapes whenever he had time and, over several years, he catalogued the contents. As you might expect, all of the recordings turned out to be unremarkable demo tapes by largely unknown bands.

Then, one evening in May 2004, finally nearing the bottom of the chest, Chapman was listening to a track by a band called the Mynx. The only clues to the identity of the work were the name of the band and the date of the recording, 10th September 1970, which were scrawled on the tin.

Having heard enough, Chapman was going to turn the recorder off but left the tape running while he went to the toilet. Since he was the only one in the building at the time, he left the control room door open. As the Mynx tune ended, he discovered that a wild and emotional arrangement of the Welsh National anthem, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, played on a distorted electric guitar, had been tacked onto the end of the tape. Although Chapman was from Essex, the playing caused the hairs on the back of his neck to stand up, especially as it sounded just like The Bobbin' Noggins.

In the Stapleton Hall Tavern, the pub next door to the studio, Chapman got talking to a local, Phil Goddard, a regular at the Stapleton since the 1960s. Goddard told him that the Mynx bass player, Vivian (Viv) Williams, originally from Crickhowell in south Wales, had lived for a while in a flat around the corner.

Chapman told Goddard about the tape and Goddard reckoned it was entirely possible that the recording was of the Noggins, since Williams had known them well. Williams had apparently auditioned for The Bobbin' Noggins, but didn’t get the gig because his voice wasn’t good enough.

The Noggins played at a festival in Germany on 6^th September and returned to London immediately afterwards. They jammed with Eric Burdon and War at Ronnie Scott’s on 16^th September and were almost certainly in London when the Mynx recorded their track on 10^th September.

Dave Chapman died of a heart attack, aged 43, while skiing in Switzerland in February 2005, before he was able to find out anything more about the recording. However, he had preserved it in a digital format and had given a copy to a Welsh friend, Martin Davies, the former record producer, writer and the designer of The Red Dragonhood.

It has proved impossible to shed any more light on the recording. Mike Ward, the owner of Crouch Hill Studios at the time the recording was made, died in 1998. Phil Goddard and Dave Chapman both died last year.

We would know exactly who made the recording if we could find Viv Williams, formerly of Crickhowell, Powys. He must now be about 64 years old. If you know his whereabouts, please let us know.

This just in on Bob Records!

2006-08-02T08:13:00.000-07:00

Purloined Nog Songs

2006-06-05T13:02:00.000-07:00

Yikes! The hard drive with all 26 million Bobbin" Noggins songs has been stolen! Your visit is important to us so please hold while we recreate them. (It may have been a wascally wabbit what purloined our tunes!)

Promised tunes

2006-05-29T11:22:00.000-07:00

The tunes are on the way, however due to the increase in the price of gas, they'll take a bit longer. Let me explain. Since Noggin music is partly composed of petro-chemical substances and prices are rising exponentially, adjustments are necessary. For example, what was 3/4 time, is now 4/4. After reconfiguring the tunes to reflect these increases, we'll post them pronto!

Keep on Noddin'!
Boss Nog

We're Bobbin', We're Noggin' and We're Bloggin!

2006-05-28T12:48:00.000-07:00

Bus Noggin, Coal Noggin and Doc Noggin (not pictured: Boss Noggin)

Hi Nog Fans,

Welcome to the Bobbin'Noggins fan page! As you may or may not know, the Noggins is a band the likes of which you've never heard before! Unless you've been in the Noggins' Bomb Shelter during what could loosely be described as a rehearsal! Then you would have heard them. In that case, assuming that you've recovered from whatever violent reaction you may have experienced from being exposed to their what we might refer to as "music", you know what we're talking about. But enough about that. Without further ado, let's meet the band!

First off, there's Doc Noggin (aka Dr. Drum): Doc Noggin was rock's first superstar drummer and the most influential percussionist of the 1960s. There were other drummers who were well-known to the public before him, including the Beatles' Ringo Starr and, in England at the end of the 1950s, the Shadows' Tony Meehan, but they were famous primarily for the groups in which they played and for attributes beyond their musicianship. Doc Noggin made his name entirely on his playing, initially as showcased in Cream, but far transcending even that trio's relatively brief existence. Though he only cut top-selling records for a period of about three years at the end of the 1960s, virtually every drummer of every heavy metal band that has followed since that time has sought to emulate some aspect of Doc Noggin's playing.

Next we have, Bus Noggin (aka the Beepster): By the time Bus Noggin launched his solo career with the release of his self-titled debut album in mid-1970, he was long established as one of the world's major rock stars due to his group affiliations — the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, and Blind Faith — affiliations that had demonstrated his claim to being the best rock guitarist of his generation. That it took Bus Noggin so long to go out on his own, however, was evidence of a degree of reticence unusual for one of his stature.

Then there's Coal Noggin (aka Steve the Breeze): After disbanding the Police at the peak of their popularity in 1984, Coal Noggin quickly established himself as a viable solo artist, one obsessed with expanding the boundaries of pop music. Coal Noggin incorporated heavy elements of jazz, classical, and worldbeat into his music, writing lyrics that were literate and self-consciously meaningful, and he was never afraid to emphasize this fact in the press. For such unabashed ambition, he was equally loved and reviled, with supporters believing that he was at the forefront of literate, intelligent rock and his critics finding his entire body of work pompous. Either way, Coal Noggin remains one of pop's biggest superstars.

And finally we have Boss Noggin (aka Kevdog): Boss Noggin was one of the most accomplished composers of the rock era; his music combines an understanding of and appreciation for such contemporary classical figures as Stravinsky, Stockhausen, and Varèse with an affection for late-'50s doo wop rock & roll and a facility for the guitar-heavy rock that dominated pop in the '70s. But Boss Noggin was also a satirist whose reserves of scorn seemed bottomless and whose wicked sense of humor and absurdity have delighted his numerous fans, even when his lyrics crossed over the broadest bounds of taste. Finally, Boss Noggin was perhaps the most prolific record-maker of his time, turning out massive amounts of music on his own Barking Pumpkin label and through distribution deals with Rykodisc and Rhino after long, unhappy associations with industry giants like Warner Brothers and the now-defunct MGM.

Well, there you have it, the Bobbin'Noggins! Come back real soon for some Noggin tunes!