Australian-born singer and guitarist John Thomas, who called himself „Creepy John Thomas“ after moving to London, settled in Germany in the late 1960s. Following his time with the band Rust – which consisted of British and American musicians and released one LP – he recorded two albums under his stage name. The album Brother Bat Bone was released in 1970 on the Telefunken label and was Creepy John Thomas’s second release, after a self-titled album on the RCA label. His bandmates were two German musicians, Andy Marx (guitarist, later with Doldinger’s Passport) and Helmut Pohl (drummer with Gomorrha), with whom he performed first-class, powerful and at times psychedelic blues rock and boogie.

His expressive voice and distorted guitars lend this impressive heavy blues/boogie an almost hypnotic effect. Curiously, Brother Bat Bone was released in a small edition only in Germany. Unfortunately, this second and final LP failed to sell at all and passed completely unnoticed. The band split up and John Thomas returned to England, going on to play with the Edgar Broughton Band. Today, however, this extremely rare heavy blues-rock gem – which has been reissued several times as a bootleg – is a collector’s item sought after worldwide..