Staying at Anekdoten singer and guitarist, Nicklas Barker’s flat in Stockholm comes with a list of privileges for which we are truly grateful. It’s a lovely place in a great location and apart from harbouring a real mellotron it also is home to a wonderful record collection. Over the next two weeks I will be […]
Continuing this month’s theme – Politician appeared on Cream’s third album, Wheels Of Fire, released in 1968 – the world’s first Platinum selling double album. Produced by future Mountain bassist Felix Pappalardi who also played organ, viola and trumpet, the album consisted of one disc of studio recordings and one disc of live recordings from New York’s Fillmore […]
As bassist and singer in Cream, one of the world’s greatest bands, Jack Bruce was a legend before his 25th birthday. At the age of 19 he was a memeber of Alexis Corner’s Blues Incorporated, next he was in a band with Graham Bond evolving into The Graham Bond Organisation with Ginger Baker before John […]
The transition from Blues, Beat or any form of Pop proved difficult for some of the more succesful bands of the early sixties. The Hollies and The Stones cautiously tinkered with psychedelia with mixed results, but the one of the most unlikely and successful transitions was Cream with their album Disraeli Gears. Sgt. Pepper’s June […]
Blind Faith have been classified as one of the first supergroups and the band did contain famous members, but there was something wonderfully organic about their music that makes this album much more interesting than the headlines at the time about who was in the band. In fact the record was not well received by […]
The debut gig of Blind Faith not that long after the demise of Cream. Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood and Rick Grech – (Winwood from Traffic and The Spencer Davies Group, Grech from Family). What I love about this concert is how soft and calm it all is. No canopy for the stage, […]