Back in March 1973 I formed a reggae band called "Gregg Baker and the Wholemeal Plutos". For a brief time we got quite popular in the clubs of North Yorkshire, a traditional reggae stronghold, and had an avid following of plutoites, some of our more popular tunes included:
"Short Bredren"
"The Belgian Bunkhouse"
"Pecan Swirl"
and "The Great Tuna Crunch"
Things started to go downhill after a few months, my passion for baking got in the way of my song writing and tunes such as
"Sweet Chicken Chilli Bloomer"
and
"Pasty the Dutchie"
drew boos from the crowds at the Coach and Horses and Whitby working mens club. After a particularly unnaprecitated performance at the later myself and the Wholemeal Plutos got into something of an altercation, security (a chap known as 'Big Barry') broke it up and calmed everyone down, myself and the band went our seperate ways, I didn't keep in touch, but I hear they went on to be massive in Lichtenstein.
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