In an attempt to get some more music up on this site I’m having a Big Ray splurge for the new year. Here’s the 2nd album, You Get What You Deserve. This is our ‘classic rock’ album in the vein of those early 70’s Who albums, Mott The Hoople and maybe a touch or two of the ever present Neil Young (and his occasional colleagues Crosby, Stills & Nash). The album was recorded and mixed at Gemini in Ipswich sometime in 1993 and was supposed to come out on a couple of different labels, but was then shelved due to a whole load of shit that went down in a short space of time and essentially the band split up.

Roll forward a few years and our knight in shining armour, our Sugar Daddy, Monsieur Didier Bouyer got in touch from his power base in France to say that he’d got hold of cassette of the unreleased album at some pointing the past 5 years and that it had saved his life or something - it was never made clear exactly what he meant by this, but he said it in the sincerest of tones and we believed him. As a result of its apprently life-saving qualities he had made it his mission to bring the 2nd Big Ray album to the attention of the world. It was his quest, his mission…or something like that. Who was I to stand in his way? The man’s a god, a genius, a wonderful person and has impeccable taste in music

Re-invigorated by some outside interest, Paul, Roop and I dusted off the old multi-track tapes, booked into a cheap studio in Hoxton for 3 or 4 days and overdubbed/remixed the stuff we needed to to finish the album. We enlisted the help of our buddy, Colleen, in New York to knock up some rather tasty artwork and we were set.

Hope you like it. More info, photos and lyrics to follow.

Line Up:

As with the other 2 Big Ray albums, there are a lot of different musiscians dotted around the various songs on You Get What You Deserve, but the core band is as follows:

• Ed Wenn - Lead vocals & guitar
• John Ruscoe - Lead guitar & vocals
• Paul Duncan - Bass
• Reado - Drums & vocals
• Steve Cox - Keyboards