Aww shit, I remember only too well that awful teddy boy revival thing going on, Robert Gordon and Link Wray, Robert Gordon and Willem Defoe in The Loveless ('Grease' for grown ups), Crazy Cavan and that most irritable of Welshmen 'Shakin Stevens' (he covered Green Door in the early 80's) awful, really awful drivel....worse than the stray cats (only just)....Call it chance, call it whatever you like (plain and simple good taste) but I had the good luck to stumble across the Meteors quite early on and they really kicked arse compared to the revival and straight forward imitation stuff that was knocking around at the time, remember that Jim Bobo's (aka Hank Mizell) Jungle Rock had been #1 in nearly every European country during the mid 70's and the European collectors plundered the wharehouses in the US looking for Rockabilly cuts to compile on those god awful white label comps (much of which was to resurface later on the Born Bad series)...all hand drawn representations of teddy boys and the like, makes me shudder even now....Luckily, there were some pretty cool guys who actually 'got it' the likes of Levi Dexter, Lux & Ivy, Nigel Lewis & (Dare I say it, at the beginning) P.Paul Fenech even Canada's Bopcats....that was another really F****** annoying thing about that period, every bloody wannabe postfixed their name with 'cats'....puerile. Apart from The Polecats who actually changed their name from 'Cult Heroes' to The Polecats as their first moniker was toooooo 'New Wave' for a 'Rockin' audience....personally, I loved The Polecats, they were kitsch, they loved T-Rex and Mott The Hoople as well as having the balls to cover a Dave Bowie song for Rockabillies....cool as f***. Dave Phillips version of Tainted Love is a CLASSIC even though I have the Gloria Jones version it's alway the Hot Rod Gang version I listen to........As for Matchbox and their ilk, I would quite happily have set fire to them, crossed the road so as not to have been close enough to P*** on them to put out the blaze ! Harsh, maybe.....however !............Does this constitute a rant ?