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The Ballad Of Bandit The Panther

from First 3 on a CD by Bandit The Panther

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The keyboard came into my sound after my brother bought an adapter plug for his record player that worked in inputting my old Casio keyboard into an amp (an explanation: I have had a little red Casio keyboard sitting around doing nothing since I was about nine). So it filtered through into this record, and is on four of the songs. This song is about a year old, from when I started playing solo and attempted to record the riff on a piano with appalling results. I gave up on the idea, but the keyboard plug changed all that and now after a partial re-write it has made its way into a finished song. I like it because it was the first solo tune I wrote, about the difficulty I had with the idea of Bandit The Panther being based on me and whoever else wanted to turn up for gigs. But it was a fun idea to try.

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My band’s not real i know it’s just me/they’re all outside living quietly/they come on down from all over the country/they came down from London or the isle of wight for a one night stand in a pub or a club or on a street corner/i have to concede i do this cos i need to/i got my fender guitar and everything is alright if it all goes well i’ll be home tonight/wandering the streets in search of a tune/i walked every lonely avenue/accompanied by Dan/down to the solent side/i met a busker on the underground rounds who harked back to the ’59 sound/he was a greased-up slicked-back drawn-out rockabilly rebel/i got me fender guitar and everything is alright/if it all goes well i’ll be home tonight/i got my fender guitar and everything is alright/it’s got the face of a panther and a warning on flights

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from First 3 on a CD, released December 31, 2010

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Bandit The Panther London, UK

Bandit The Panther are a DIY lo-fi punk group based in London. They write folk, punk and reggae infused tunes about London, being in a band, and having no money (due to both). Bandit has toured the UK several times and their latest album 'I Have This Town' is out on Aaahh! Real Records. ... more

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