STAX
Joe Reynolds on Top of the Pops with The Selecter -Three Minute Hero.
Joe Reynolds, sax player with Jazz rock band Willow in the mid 70's and the guest sax player on Selecter's Three Minute Hero, joined a soul / reggae band called Stax and played a lot in Coventry at venues like the Hope and Anchor in Whitefriars Street and the Commonwealth Club near the railway bridge in Lockhurst Lane, Holbrook and a residency at the Jubilee Pub at the end of the Stoney Stanton Road.
They also played regularly at La Chaumiere in The Burges and the Dog and Trumpet in the city centre. Stax lasted about two years, Carol Lloyd, the singer, left and was replaced by Ray King and Desmond Brown from Selecter joined later. They split up at the end of 1982, and the last gig was a New Years Eve one.
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