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Grahm Bond Organization
« on: January 13, 2010, 05:33:07 AM »


- Graham Bond: organ
- John McLaughlin: guitar
- Jack Bruce: bass
- Ginger Baker: drums.
- Dick Heckstall-Smith on sax

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Re: Grahm Bond Organization
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2010, 05:56:32 AM »
I miss the sixties...  :P
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Re: Grahm Bond Organization
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2010, 06:49:48 AM »
Funny stuff.  That was posted on the FDP last year.  "Turn up your amplifier."   My kinda video.   :mrgreen:
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Re: Grahm Bond Organization
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2010, 08:03:58 AM »
Gonks Go Beat, one of those movies that must have been made by someone with money to burn.

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Re: Grahm Bond Organization
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2010, 08:14:18 AM »
quite a line up that was. mayall, bond and alexis koener were the british godheads of the blues that just about everybody played with. i think bond later commited suicide by jumping in front of a subway train.
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Re: Grahm Bond Organization
« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2010, 08:31:26 AM »
... in North London in 1974; RIP
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Re: Grahm Bond Organization
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2010, 10:31:07 AM »
Bond....Graham Bond.
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Re: Grahm Bond Organization
« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2010, 04:01:31 PM »
Damn~ They look like muppets!!!!  :o

Glad I never saw this before CREAM! hahaaa

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Re: Grahm Bond Organization
« Reply #8 on: January 13, 2010, 04:42:59 PM »
If you're interested in this period of British musical history, I really recommend you get hold of a copy of Dick Heckstall-Smith's book ...

UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blowing-Blues-Personal-History-British/dp/1904555047/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263425566&sr=8-1
US http://www.amazon.com/Blowing-Blues-Personal-History-British/dp/1904555047/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263425595&sr=8-1

DHS also RIP, sadly. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2004/dec/22/guardianobituaries.arts

And if you want to know what GBO could have become if Bond hadn't self-destructed, try Colosseum.


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Re: Grahm Bond Organization
« Reply #9 on: January 13, 2010, 04:55:08 PM »
Even with the lack of video/audio sync, I can see that was the worst lip-sync job EVER.  Cool music, tho.
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Re: Grahm Bond Organization
« Reply #10 on: January 13, 2010, 05:01:27 PM »
Don't forget that Bruce recorded Things We Like with Heckstall-Smith and McLaughlin.  I never knew that he started out with Graham Bond.
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Re: Grahm Bond Organization
« Reply #11 on: January 13, 2010, 10:12:34 PM »
The story is that Ginger Baker got Jack fired from GBO. Don't know if it's actually been confirmed by either of them, but there was a lot of hostility between them and Jack left.

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Re: Grahm Bond Organization
« Reply #12 on: January 15, 2010, 06:02:58 AM »
If I remember correctly, there are some Graham Bond cuts that are a bit more jazzy with Jack Bruce on an upright and Ginger Baker really working that small kit. Particularly a lot of real old school snare and high hat work......very different from the Ginger Baker multi tom tom stuff we are familiar with. I haven't heard any of that stuff since pre 1970 so the memory may be a bit fogged :-[
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« Reply #13 on: January 19, 2010, 05:49:52 PM »
The story is that Ginger Baker got Jack fired from GBO. Don't know if it's actually been confirmed by either of them, but there was a lot of hostility between them and Jack left.

According to Heckstall-Smith "... it was Ginger alone who had sacked Jack, and it was over a personal matter ..."


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Re: Grahm Bond Organization
« Reply #14 on: January 19, 2010, 05:52:08 PM »
If I remember correctly, there are some Graham Bond cuts that are a bit more jazzy with Jack Bruce on an upright and Ginger Baker really working that small kit. Particularly a lot of real old school snare and high hat work......very different from the Ginger Baker multi tom tom stuff we are familiar with. I haven't heard any of that stuff since pre 1970 so the memory may be a bit fogged :-[
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