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Bio:
Long-haired bunch from Dublin -- they look like The Pretty Things in contemporary photos.
Opened for The Who at the National Stadium in Dublin on 7th May 1966. According to The
Who Concert File, the IRA threatened
to blow up The Who if they wore their union jack suits on stage and so they wore
green, white and gold suits especially made for the occasion in Dublin! The Who
also played the Top Hat, Lisburn (May 6) and the Arcadia in Cork (May 8) on this 3-date tour,
their only ever Irish tour. The Drags only played the Dublin date, to 2500 fans.
Jody Pollard, Larry Lynch and Jimmy Mahon later formed Strange Brew
with Jody's brother Paul.
Jody Pollard and Jimmy Mahon were subsequently in Portrait
who became Elmer Fudd.
Jody Pollard long history also includes stints with
Bananas,
Skid Row,
Colm Wilkinson,
Shay Healy,
Joe Dolan and the
Brush Sheils Band among others.
He later formed
the folk rock trio Shanty Dam during a period in London in the 1980s.
Larry Lynch later opened Soundhire in Dublin.
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