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Since: Dec 2008
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ARTIST: Greg Johnson

Over the years there have been many versions of the Greg Johnson Band, but through the multiple personalities and faces there has always been a common thread, the production of haunting melodies and bittersweet songs.

The earliest recorded version of the Greg Johnson Set grew out of the remnants of 8O's electronic Car Crash Set. Greg, who had just folded his short-lived. This Boy Rob, imported his Dutch friend Joost Langeveld on bass and the Set was born. The first drummer was a really unreliable drum machine! This band went on to record the first album The Watertable which included the singles Strange and Everything Spins. The release of the first album on Trevor Reekie's Pagan Records did not set the charts on fire but reviews went on to recognise that Greg was an emerging songwriter with a penchant for words, wit and double entendre...

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