Funny old time, the late 1960s. The British blues boom was coming to an end and bands were turning those 12-bar tunes into heavy rock.

If you were pretty and/or enjoyed dressing up it turned into Glam (Slade, Sweet, T.Rex); if you were just a hairy geezer in jeans it became Heavy Metal (Sabbath, Purple, Zeppelin).

They’re the names we remember but there were loads of also-rans who fell by the wayside. Bands like Slowload.

A power trio from London, they recorded at Pye Studios in Marble Arch, usually produced by Vic Maile – a sound engineer for Led Zep, Hendrix, Clapton, The Who, Kinks and more.

Slowload’s only single during their brief existence (a compilation would come out later) seems to have been a straightahead 12-bar rock’n’roll tune called On The Road Again, released in 1971.

This is the B-side, which has had a longer life for reasons that may not be entirely unconnected with its regrettable title.

The band didn’t last long but singer/guitarist Neville Crozier reinvented himself as a country musician, complete with cowboy hat and boots, in bands including The Fruit Eating Bears and Midnight Howlers (he does an excellent version of Johnny Cash’s Hey Porter on YouTube) while another band member went on to ‘be’ Rick Parfitt in a Quo covers band cruelly called Statin Quo.

Anyway, here’s that B-side – listen out for the big shift at 1.43 when a sudden squeal of guitar signals a lurch into a Quo-like boogie. And while it’s kind of Neville to have posted the lyrics on YouTube, I’m not sure it was entirely necessary for us to learn the full story of his evening with the “size 40 lady” in question.

But as a quaint artefact of its time it’s quite funny.