‘Night of the Long Grass’ and its accompanying video in particular are personal favourites of mine – just the way it keeps the band’s thug-simplicity intact whilst adding such an amazing sense of atavistic, soul-shivering psychedelic mystery to proceedings (and that’s not something you’d really expect a great deal of from The Troggs based on their three line ‘Virgin Encyclopaedia of Rock’ type summary, right?).  Incredible track - I never tire of it.

And speaking of atavism, I never really got ‘round to checking out their weird ‘70s heavy metal reinvention. I hear it’s pretty salty.

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how ‘70s heavy is the new ‘60s garage, so makes perfect sense they should make the switch really. So ahead of the curve, y’see! They foresaw all. But did they do it well? Well, uh, the internet exists, so let’s investigate…

Hmm, maybe we’ll come back to that later.

In the meantime though – never forget THE TROGG TAPES! Thrice blessed are the creators of these tears running down my cheeks…

In all respects, nuff said. Rest in peace Reg, for you were once and are forever one of the greats.