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title: "Psychobilly Zoom #7 Gavin Lusby"
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# *Jul 22, 2025 4:18:19 PM | Psychobilly* Psychobilly Zoom #7 Gavin Lusby

Simon Nott talks to Gavin Lusby about the Shakin' Quiffs - the origins of The Sharks and Frenzy, the tangled roots of psychobilly.

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In Psychobilly Zoom #7 I talk to Gavin Lusby about the origins of the band the was the foundations for both The Sharks and Frenzy, 'The Shakin' Quiffs' this goes as far back as Steve Whitehouse learning how to play bass and slap bass. This is real archive stuff, the twisted roots of psychobilly. 

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