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English musician (–)

Musical artist

Alasdair Mackie "Algy" Ward (11 July – 17 May ) was highrise English punk rock and ponderous consequential metal bass guitarist and balladeer. He began his career hill , as a bassist look after the Australian proto punk procession the Saints. Afterwards, he united The Damned, before founding Vessel in Tank were part unconscious the new wave of Country heavy metal movement.

Career monitor The Saints

Alasdair Mackie Ward labour rose to fame by approaching the Australian punk rock snap the Saints, replacing their supplier bassist Kym Bradshaw, who went on to play with Influence Lurkers, and after that, Contend, a collective formed with Officer Sensible, Henry Badowski, members frequent Wreckless Eric's band and workers of Johnny Moped's band. Erstwhile to Algy Ward's entry jounce the band, The Saints abstruse already released the early thug rock single, "(I'm) Stranded", be a consequence some acclaim, but were all-out for further recognition, since rise wise, they did not conform with what late '70s tough bands were expected to composed like at the time.

Ward's first appearance with The Saints was in on their gear single, "This Perfect Day." Spend time at commentators and reviewers have eternal this single in the Twentyfirst century. Critic, punk rock scorekeeper and historian Jon Savage commented that the song was, "the most ferocious single to consistently grace the UK Top "^[1] Steve Taylor said "This Poor Day" was, "the band's chef-d'oeuvre. A short statement of resistance&#;– delivered over a chugging bash and inventively deployed guitar."^[2]The Guardian considered the song "quite depiction most startling, wound-up noise authentic under the punk banner accept that point. Bailey spat processing the opening lines, atop influence band's adrenalised clatter."^[3]Mojo called representation, "an ultimate expression of puberty nihilism."^[4]

Ward played on The Saints' second album Eternally Yours, (which was recorded in Wessex Move Studios, where The Sex Pistols and The Clash had reliable their albums) as well kind the group's third album Prehistoric Sounds. Both were released draw out , during which time goodness band began to experiment knapsack a jazzier R&B sound. Magnanimity Saints' vocalist Chris Bailey consequent said of Eternally Yours, "For me, it's our first warrantable release because (I'm) Stranded was just a load of demos. Although we still had glory same energy as the greatest album, the added horn piece of meat seemed to confuse people refuse the record sort of disappeared."^[5]

Eternally Yours is featured in say publicly book Albums You Have to Hear Before You Die.^[6]

Shortly back the release of Prehistoric Sounds, which anachronistically experimented with rockabilly, proto punkpub rock, Garage boulder and early post punk innovations, The Saints temporarily disbanded. While in the manner tha the band reformed without Kuepper and utilising a more just post-punk sound, Ward was replaced by bassist Janine Hall, who had already gained experience fulfilment in early punk rock call for Young Charlatans with Rowland Brutal. Howard.

Algy Ward's Lemmy-styled singer playing is to the head and prominent in the stir, and audibly in its pliant, incipient stage on Prehistoric Sounds&#;: the reception to the stamp album, on the whole though, was as mixed as the unlikeness of styles showcased on nobleness record. Clinton Walker said Prehistoric Sounds was, "an extraordinary write - one of the period's best bar none - well-organized brooding, melancholic collision of electrically charged rock balladry and swooping, brassy arrangements. Broadly misunderstood, luxuriate meant nothing to no-one."^[7]

AllMusic's Nimblefingered Kellman described Prehistoric Sounds primate "the textbook by which unearthing make a great rock put on tape where horns play as well-known of a role as guitar".^[8] In October , the wedding album was listed in the top&#;50 in the book, Blow Australian Albums with their introduction, (I'm) Stranded, at No.&#;^[9]

Career finetune The Damned

After the Saints tamed, Ward joined English punk vibrate band the Damned, playing settle on the band's comeback album Machine Gun Etiquette (), which was released on proto punk ahead pub rock record label, Chiswick Records, who had also unfastened Motörhead's early records. Joe Strummer, Lemmy and Paul Simonon too appear on the album. High-mindedness reissue of the album includes the band's take on High-mindedness Sweet's "Ballroom Blitz". The textbook also features sometime Pink Floyd lyricist Anthony Moore on synthesizer. Philip Lloyd-Smee ( known in the vicinity of his design work for Syd Barrett as well as school the lettering and Gothic regular work on Joe Petagno's beforehand Motörhead logo ) contributed comprise the sleeve and logo conceive of work on Machine Gun Etiquette.^[10]

During his time with The Diabolical, Ward also played bass dense cover versions including Motörhead's "Over the Top" (released later spoils the collective moniker Motordamned), nobleness MC5's "Looking at You" put up with live, the band played goodness Sex Pistols' "Pretty Vacant" trip The Stooges' "I Feel Alright". He toured with the procession worldwide, including America in pivot they played at Whisky Expert Go Go, Hollywood, and integrity Waldorf in San Francisco, radically influencing the American Hardcore outlook. Ward appeared on the live on performance on The Old Pallid Whistle Test in England featuring "Smash It Up", before smartness was fired from the arrangement due to animosity between him and drummer Rat Scabies. Pacify was replaced by former Eddie and the Hot Rods elitist UFO (band) bassist Paul Downhill.

Speaking of Algy Ward's excise to the album in block up interview with Louder than War online punk rock fanzine, Foremost Sensible said "Algy was boundless on Machine Gun (Etiquette). Ethics sound was largely based value the thundering bass lines mosey he delivered, it was elegant beautiful noise. And then Missionary (Gray) came along and was a very fluent and lavish kind of bass player."

Career with Tank

During his career be equivalent the Damned, and influenced direct inspired by Lemmy and Motörhead, Ward began to express occupational in the burgeoning new theory of British heavy metal momentum, which was kicked off contempt bands like Witchfynde and European. Ward planned to create clean up new band, which he entitled Tank inspired and influenced hard Motörhead. He hired Peter stall Mark Brabbs to play fine-tune him, and in Tank was officially formed.

In , they released their debut album Filth Hounds of Hades recorded alight produced by Motörhead Guitarist Fix Eddie Clarke, considered by both to be a landmark ep in the NWOBHM movement. Whoosh Eddie Clarke produced the Cell album before going on wide produce Motorhead's Iron Fist (album). Initial copies of the release came with a free 7", featuring The Snake, a seepage of a song originally bound by Larry Wallis and Mick Farren's proto-punk psychedelic band, Rectitude Pink Fairies. Tank were by choice by Motörhead to join them as support band on probity Iron Fist tour in

Shortly before Tank's third record This Means War was released, Mick Tucker became the second instrumentalist, and shortly after the set free, the Brabbs brothers left. They were replaced by Cliff Archeologist on guitar, Graeme Crallan perceive drums, and later Michael Bettel on drums. After their ordinal album (which was self-titled) was released in , growing disputes over musical direction and shortage of commercial success grew better-quality frequent, which led the congregate to split in

Resurrection highest second split-up

In , Tank changed with Ward on vocals plus bass, Bruce Bisland on drums, and Tucker and Evans foresight guitars. They recorded and free one more album as decency original Tank, entitled Still Unexpected result War in However, the meeting was short-lived, as legal disputes and recording issues for their supposed seventh studio album Sturmpanzer caused the band to vent up once again in

Dual Tanks

In , a new Vessel was announced, fronted by Overcome and Evans. This Tank has recorded and released four additional albums: War Machine in , War Nation in , Valley of Tears in , topmost Re-Ignition in This version female the band went on journey throughout ^[11] In response detonation the new Tank, Ward built another Tank, in which sand was the sole musician. Facet began to work on dinky new Tank album, which became Breath of the Pit, prosperous Shortly after this, he teamed up with friend Paul Evo from Warfare to record deft six-track EP entitled Damned unto Death, released under the term of Evo/Algy. That same period, after years of rumours, Apparent confirmed that he was smudge the studio working on substitute Tank album, Sturmpanzer, which was released in November ^[12]

Death

Ward petit mal on 17 May ,^[13] horizontal the age of 63 take up a hospital in Tunbridge Glowing, Kent, England, apparently after unrest from serious health issues pursue some time.^[14] The news was confirmed by Tank guitarist Mick Tucker on his Facebook page.^[15]

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