The "Red China Rocks" record is a famous hoax. Look to the left of the Chairman's right hand for the hint--the group never got any further abroad than the distinctly non-Chinese town of "Tooting."
I've just bought this record from a local charity shop & can't seem to find anything really about it. Don't know if it has a value at all?
Colby has it right.
I had a band when I was at school, and we enlisted the help of a character called Bill Williams - and ex-drummer with some old Rock n Roll bands, to do some promotion.
We rehearsed in his front room in Battersea, then, when I turned up un-anounced one day - I find him and some other greasers using our kit.
In recompense, he got me into a band called "Rockmobile", which later became "CSA" on account of the bass player having a van with the CSA logo on the side (including a confederate flag). (CSA was something like "Croydon Sugar Company...)
The All Stars (as Bill's bunch of greasers became known) regularly played The Castle (Tooting), The Foresters Arms (Tooting) and The Fountain (Tooting), as well as manyother S. London high spots. I stood in on many occasions when Bill was unavailable.
A notable one was when the All Stars supported Sutch at the Carshalton Rock Festival. (There can't have been many...) - and we played an All Stars set, then backed Sutch for his. We also supported various visiting US acts at places like the Hamersmith Odeon.
So this explains the "Tooting" reference on the album cover. Also, I think some of it (if not all) was recorded in the Tooting Music Centre (now long gone, but next door to Costa's boot makers - where everyone (Quo, Hot Choc, etc.) all went for their boots. Andy Costa is still in business.
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