Rockpile

Rockpile functioned as the road band behind both Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe throughout the closing years of the 1970s. The group shared Edmunds’s devotion to classic rock & roll forms while matching Lowe’s gleeful, scruffy abandon. Powered by drummer Terry Williams and Lowe’s own bass, guitarists Billy Bremner and Edmunds tore through bruising rock, blues, rockabilly, and country lines. Their high-voltage stage presence and straightforward rock & roll approach slotted naturally into the post-punk new-wave scene at decade’s end.

Though the quartet issued just a single album under its own name, 1980’s Seconds of Pleasure, its members backed nearly every record Lowe and Edmunds cut during the late ’70s. Following the hurried appearance of Seconds of Pleasure, the band embarked on one final tour before disbanding, chiefly because of poor management. The musicians still joined forces on scattered projects across the 1980s.