WORDS BY DOUGLAS MCPHERSON
Crazy Cavan & The Rhythm Rockers, today; (left to right) Mike Coffey, Cavan Grogan, Terry Walley, Graham Price, Lyndon Needs
PHOTOS BY LYNDON NEEDS
“We were different,” says Lyndon Needs, describing Crazy Cavan And The Rhythm Rockers’ place in the 1970s rock’n’roll scene. “We didn’t think we had any competition because we weren’t doing what the other bands were. Everyone else was playing rock’n’roll standards by Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent. Our attitude all along was we’re gonna play what we’ve written and some of this obscure stuff that we listen to, and if you don’t like it, we don’t give a shit!