In the early days, the mesmeric chord structures hammered out by bass colossus Keith Curtis sent John Robb into a trance for two or three songs at a time.Eventually he overcame this condition by jumping about and shouting a lot.
Until Brother John found a way of combating his tendency to drift off into a trance during live performances, the drummer used to amuse himself by taking advantage of John's condition shouting out prompts like "Take all your clothes off John!" while the brass section cowered sniggering at this hilarious tomfoolery.Of course, Brother Rob could just have been trying to distract attention away from his vainglorious attempts to grow a quiff.
To this day John still gets flashbacks of these experiences and from time to time still reacts to the voices in his head calling out for him to expose himself in public.
