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THE STRAPS were formed late 1977,when vocalist JOCK STRAP met up with rythmn guitarist Dave Reeves,in a squat in Battersea south LONDON , although Jock had dabbled with the bass guitar in his native Glasgow he never thought for one second that he would front one of Londons biggest punk bands in the late seventies early eighties.After the tragic death of the first bassist GREEN,Stan Stammers joined the ranks along with Andy Forbes on lead and Cliff Gluebag on drums ,playing support to Stiff little Fingers at the Hammersmith odeon kick started their Punk antics.It wasnt untill Stan left for Theatre of hate,Andy to join The Wall and Cliff was sacked for selling his kit to buy glue that the band really took off with a British tour suporting The Damned, with three new members. Simon and Big John Werner guitar, and bass respectivly, and with the exellent drummer Jim Walker of Public Image LTD ,the band went from stregnth to stregnth releasing two 7" singles JUST CANT TAKE ANYMORE and...