I'll Tell Everything I Know

Don't start me to talking,

I'll tell everything I know …

Sonny Boy Williamson, on "Down and Out Blues"

I’ll Tell Everything I Know is a collection of twenty-one humorous short stories. It’s related to Dart Travis's Sixties trilogy, and features Steve Bury the same central character. The stories take place between the summer of 1964 and the autumn of 1965, predating the trilogy. They're arranged chronologically. The bass guitar image on the cover says it all. The early stories are tales centred around Steve’s garage band, The Etceteras.  Neil, Steve, Greg, Paul and Alfie are not John, Paul, George and Ringo by any stretch of the imagination. The late 1965 tales move out of the garage band into the folk scene.

These are tales of the angst of the young would-be musician and what it was like to be in an incompetent garage band in the mid sixties. Young romance creeps in. They start in the Mod 'n' Rocker riots on the beaches in 1964.