The resulting gig, although technically sound, was deemed a disappointment by the band and Took consequently broke up the group. Eventually a concert was booked as a showcase for the band at Nik Turner's Bohemian Love-In at The Roundhouse on 18 June 1978. Landau approached several record companies with the tape, but was met with wariness due to Took's reputation for drug consumption and unreliability. Years later, he expressed surprise and pleasure to learn that in fact Took performed a good vocal for the tracks. However, disheartened by Took's consumption of considerable alcohol in order to prepare himself to sing, Wallis left before Took completed his vocal. On 29 November at Pathway Studios in London, the band recorded three of these songs, "It's Over", "Average Man" and "Woman I Need." By chance, Took's old collaborator Wallis, a frequent producer at the studio, was on hand for the session. Through extensive rehearsals (later described by Thoms as "the most outrageous misuse of drugs I've ever done while playing music") the band compiled a set of songs heavily influenced by The Rolling Stones, The Faces and The Sex Pistols. The Horns became a more serious band in mid/late 1977 when Took recruited Thoms and Ghisio-Erba to the band and signed a management contract with Tony Landau, a friend of Turner's since adolescence and stepfather to Took's young son Luke. The name came from a horned pendant which Took frequently wore. īy 1976, Took had returned to London from a lengthy sojourn in the Kent towns of Canterbury and Margate and was loosely rehearsing as Steve Took's Horns with a succession of musicians. A 1972 management deal with Tony Secunda and 'seed money' grant from Warner Brothers failed to result in any record releases, although home demos recorded in the basement flat of Secunda's office were released in 1995 by Cleopatra Records. In this capacity Took had become a staple of the underground benefit concerts circuit, been the subject of various articles and interviews for the UK music press and performed a set on the BBC Radio London show Breakthrough (hosted by Steve Bradshaw). The group had recorded electric and acoustic demos and played at the Phun City festival before dwindling down into a solo acoustic act by Took. Since leaving Tyrannosaurus Rex in 1969, Took had formed his own band Shagrat with guitarist Larry Wallis. A 2004 posthumous album of the band was reviewed in Classic Rock magazine, a 1978 live performance was reviewed in Melody Maker, the band's 1977 recording session was described at length in a Forced Exposure interview with eyewitness Larry Wallis and the band was euologised in a Record Collector article about Took written by Luke Haines. The band was the first in which Thoms worked with his future Inner City Unit bandmate Ermanno Ghisio Erba aka Dino Ferari, in what would be a long string of collaborations until Thoms' death in 2010. Steve Took's Horns was an English rock band with blues rock and punk influences formed in 1977 by former Tyrannosaurus Rex percussionist (and Pink Fairies founder) turned solo artist Steve Peregrin Took together with Trev Thoms, later of Nik Turner's Inner City Unit (although Took had been using the bandname since 1976).
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