Brewers Droop

Brewers Droop

Infobox musical artist
Name = Brewers Droop


Img_capt = The original Brewers Droop, taken in 1972
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Origin = High Wycombe, England
Genre = Blues, Rock
Years_active = 1971–1973
Label = RCA Records
Red Lightnin' [ [http://www.redlightnin.com/ Red Lightnin', Record Company] ]
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Current_members = Ron Watts (vocals)
Steve Darrington [ [http://www.stevedarrington.com/music.htm Steve Darrington, Homepage] ] (keyboards)
John McKay (guitar)
Malcolm Barrett (bass)
Bob Walker (drums)
Past_members = Pick Withers
Mark Knopfler

Brewers Droop is the name of a Southern English band (whose history can be followed in "Hundred Watts" by Ron Watts) in which Mark Knopfler played for a few months in 1973. Knopfler split his time between teaching part-time, and playing with the band. Later, the Dire Straits song "Industrial Disease" mentions a malady (alongside smoker's cough) which shares its name with that band. The song saw its U.S. chart peak on January 22, 1983 at #75. [Rock Movers and Shakers, Dafydd Rees & Luke Crampton, 1991 Billboard Books.]
The name is a reference to a slang expression for erectile dysfunction brought on by heavy drinking.

Discography

*Opening Time, Album, 1972
*Sweet Thing, 7" Single, 1972
*The Booze Brothers, Album, 1989 (recorded 1973)

References


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