Good Habit

Good Habit were a professional touring band mostly from Penarth in South Wales 1970 - 75.
They had one single 'Find My Way Back Home' that was released by RCA and reviewed by John Peel in Sounds.
Some songs including 'Ship of Gold' were recorded for Peel's sessions. For a while the band wore green monastic habits on stage. Live favorites included Danger Zone and King of the Mountain,final numbers would be Keep on Moving and Chicken Shack Stomp/ Hey Bo Diddley. Good Habit toured with many well known artists over the years including, Thin Lizzy, The Who, Gong, Genesis, The Velvet Underground, Rory Gallagher, Funkadelic, UFO and many many more! Good Habit also played iconic music festivals, the first ever Glastonbery festival, and also the 1972 Reading festival.

The Line up included :

Peter replaced Twillie on guitar. In 1973 the sax players left. Ray Ennis aka Alice (ex The Swinging Blue Jeans)joined the band on guitar. Biffo replaced Paul on drums and Gareth Mortimer aka Morty (ex Ancient Grease) joined on Vocals and Tambourine. The finale to gigs became Highway 69 followed by Johhny B Goode/Bye Bye Johnny. After Clutch left Morty had taken over most of the songwriting and they became Racing Cars.

References

'Sounds ' reviews by John Peel, John Ackland, Geoff Barton

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