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Garbage Days Revisited #33: The Crybabys - "Where Have All The Good Girls Gone?" (1991)

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(ANDY'S NOTE: A few days after I finished the final draft of this article, I received the terrible news that Crybabys guitarist Darrell Bath had suddenly passed away. After a lot of consideration, I decided to publish it as it was as I think/hope it, along with the forthcoming GDR on the UK Subs which covers his time with the band, comes across as a good tribute to the guy without the need to add anything apart from this intro - these articles had been scheduled in for a good few months and I desperately wish they weren't finally being published in these circumstances. As I mention below, I met Darrell a few times during my decade living in London and he was that most rare of rock stars, a guy with a really cool musical CV and a supremely good guitarist who was also one of the nicest and most down to earth people you could possibly hope to meet, always happy to have a chat about good music and life in general. Similar to Mark Keds earlier in the year, it really feels as if he...