A few days back Tom Robinson was interviewed on BBC Radio 4 about the upcoming, and not without controversy, reunion of Oasis. He said words along the lines of the fact that since there is such a multitude of Oasis tribute bands the best that could be said about the Gallagher reformation is that it would probably be one of the best of the Oasis tribute acts. The radio anchor then went on to ask whether Tom would consider reforming his own band to which he replied that this would be an impossibility to reform his band as he had lost his guitarist.
That guitarist was Danny Kustow who put the bite into the TRB sound. He played with TRB up to the point of their original demise in October 1979. Thereafter, he had involvement with an early reformed version of the band as well as playing one off gigs with Tom. He died of pneumonia, as complication of a liver infection on 11th March 2019 at the age of 63.
MP3 (as received): https://we.tl/t-mL2DaPj1Ip
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-Dxx3oKtNy6
The following review appeared in Record Mirror on 1st July 1978, reporting on the band's first appearance in New York, a few days after this SF gig. It is pointed out in the piece that the tour took in the 'more enlightened' of US cities, including San Francisco. Well, you have to wonder what an audience in Alabama would have made of 'Glad To Be Gay'!!
The reviewer seemed to be undecided whether the gig was good or bad, but I think that the SF recording speaks for itself.
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