George Remembers Gilly And Lou Is Irritated In Mojo

Jamming good with Weird and Gilly…

In a regular feature called The Buzz, in the Collections section of the current MOJO, the magazine considers George Underwood‘s Ziggy Collection set of enamel badges (10/06/02 NEWS: GEORGE UNDERWOOD ZIGGY SET AVAILABLE NOW) collectable enough to warrant a feature. After a brief bit of background history, George explained to MOJO how he may have been responsible for inspiring the inclusion of Gilly in Ziggy’s band:

My cousin introduced me to a bunch of bikers when I was 15 and one of them was called Gilly. He had these great sideburns down the side of his face, and the head said he’s expel him if he didn’t shave them off. He refused, so he was expelled. When I told David, he couldn’t believe that someone would have the guts to chuck in his academic career over some sideburns. He became a hero for David.

This sounds like a perfect description of real-life Spider Trevor Bolder who enjoyed highlighting his fine pair of 12″ sideburns by spraying them silver. It’s a shame George portrayed Gilly as a drummer, had Gilly been the bassist it would have seemed like it was all part of the master plan.

Elsewhere in the magazine, Lou Reed is the subject of MOJO’s regular ’10 Questions for…’ feature. Considering there were only ten questions, interviewer Jaan Uhelszki wasted one of them thus: David Bowie appears on a song on The Raven, but all these years I think the world has thought you two don’t get along, particularly because there was all that hoopla about you punching him in a cafe in Chelsea.

And this was Lou’s understandably terse reply: Oh, that’s not true. No. That’s so stupid. That’s so stupid. That shit is so gossipy, stupid. I mean I played David’s 50th birthday thing at Madison Square Garden.

So there… Let that be an end to the matter.