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From 1964 to 1966 Chants R&B were a fixture of the Christchurch music scene, and local bar The Stage Door. The band’s near mythic status is highlighted in this hour-long documentary featuring band and audience members, plus their former peers. Musicians Ray Columbus and Midge Marsden rave about the group, while music experts Nick Bollinger and Tony Mitchell speculate as to why they were so compelling. Mixed in is archive 60s footage shot by Fred Goldring, capturing raucous scenes in the dank underground bar in central Christchurch. Rumble & Bang was directed by Simon Ogston (Skeptics - Sheen of Gold) and Jeff Smith.
Transcript
00:00Music
00:09We were sex and drugs and rock and roll without sex and drugs.
00:13It was just a lot of rock and roll.
00:16Fans that used to come down to the stage door
00:18stood for rumble and bang, which was great.
00:22But they were standing at the front.
00:24That's what it sounded like to them.
00:26That music was so high power and fast.
00:29It was like the Intipodean version of the cabin.
00:33They didn't get that from the Pretty Things or the Rolling Stones.
00:36Those groups were on very established English labels.
00:40The recordings they did in mid-66,
00:43I was good if not better than any recordings done anywhere else in the world.
00:49We really didn't know what we were doing.
00:51We were just doing things and if people like it, you know, it's great.
01:11We were playing this music in the 60s and now we are 60.
01:14Keep going, I'm sure you've got to see.
01:14Let's see.
01:15See you in the next video soon.

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