Pool Of Sound - Crucial Three

They were the band that never was!

A short-lived band that existed for approximately six weeks in early 1977 but they were the catalyst of the Liverpool music scene as one of the semi-legendary trio the 'Crucial Three'. They are more notable on account of the future individual success of all three founding members: Julian Cope formed 'The Teardrop Explodes' enjoying also a long and successful solo career as an author; photographer and singer, Ian McCulloch who formed the very successful 'Echo & the Bunnymen', while guitarist Pete Wylie went on to form 'Wah!' in many forms.

The band formed in May 1977 and split in June 1977.

According to Julian Cope, the three friends first talked about forming a band on Ian McCulloch's 18th birthday, the 5th of May 1977, during 'The Clash's' White Riot tour date at Eric's in Mathew Street.
Julian said, "By the end of the evening, we were a group. It was all Wylie's trip. He suggested 'Arthur Hostile & The Crucial Three'. Duke [McCulloch] said, 'Sod the bloody Arthur Hostile bit off, it's crap.' So we were the 'Crucial Three'. Wylie went on about how legendary we would be, and Duke and I went along with him, as part of the in-joke."          
Although they wrote and rehearsed a number of songs (Wylie claims they had four songs), including 'Salomine Shuffle' (which was performed by Wylie in an abbreviated form at The Zanzibar in Liverpool in September 2007) and 'Bloody Sure You're on Dope', the band did not last long enough to record anything.

Pete Wylie at his Mum's home

In those early days, McCulloch sang, Cope played bass, and Wylie played guitar and they rehearsed in a garage with drummer Steve Spence and split up after a month but other accounts mention rehearsing in Pete Wylie's mum's front room. According to McCulloch, the band were "...just mates - we never did anything. We wrote one crap song".
By never making it to the gigging stage, the world sadly lost the chance to enjoy songs such as 'I'm Bloody Sure He's On Drugs and 'Out Of My Mind On Dope and Speed' as the 'Crucial Three' split up thereafter to be confined to legend status.

After the 'Crucial Three', Julian Cope and Pete Wylie quickly formed the just-as-short-lived 'Mystery Girls' followed by 'The Nova Mob' who, goaded into headlining at Liverpool's top punk club, Eric's, were a disaster according to observers, at which point the band split up.
Cope then formed 'Uh?' with Ian McCulloch and McCulloch's school friend Dave Pickett. McCulloch duly left after the band's first and only gig.

Although the three of them only lasted for little more than six weeks as a group and disbanded without ever playing a gig, it was certainly a taste of things to come as we will observe later.

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