Ric Grech

[Garrett]

In memory of Ric Grech who passed away on this day in 1990!

Ric Grech was the Bass player with Family, Blind Faith and Traffic.



11-1-1946 / 3-17-1990



Ric Grech, Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood.





Blind Faith



Blind Faith album with Mariora Goschen.

1. Had to Cry Today" (Steve Winwood) – 8:48
2. "Can't Find My Way Home" (Winwood) – 3:16
3. "Well All Right" (Buddy Holly) – 4:27
4. "Presence of the Lord" (Eric Clapton) – 4:50
5. "Sea of Joy" (Winwood) – 5:22
6. "Do What You Like" (Ginger Baker) – 15:20

[uwe]

Grumpy ole Ginger probably liked best about the man that he wasn't Jack Bruce!

[gweimer]

Grech was also in Ginger Baker's Air Force.

[Freuds_Cat]

Good music alright. thanks for the reminder. I might put that album in my car for the day. Haven't played it in a while. I was playing some Traffic the other day. Love that band.

[Garrett]

Good music alright. thanks for the reminder. I might put that album in my car for the day. Haven't played it in a while. I was playing some Traffic the other day. Love that band.

You might enjoy this...



Live from Madison Square Garden is a 2 CD/2 DVD live album by Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood which was released on May 19, 2009. They performed, primarily, Blind Faith songs as well as some selections from Traffic, Derek and the Dominos, Clapton's solo career and some Jimi Hendrix covers. Their band consisted of Willie Weeks on bass, Ian Thomas on drums and Chris Stainton on keyboards and Derek Trucks on guitar. I have the CD and love it.

[uwe]

I have it too and like the original album it sounds a little ... lame. Maybe I have to listen even more to it. I like Windwood, I like Traffic and I'm not one of those "Eric should've stayed with Cream and forever played his Gibsons over Marshalls"-whiners either, I even like his new solo album, he's making great progress in becoming a second rate J.J. Cale, but Windwood and Clapton together is not what I would call a combustive mix.

Ok, I'll listen to their stuff again ...

[Droombolus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9qWZURH5Z8&feature=related

As a Family fan I always regretted Grech's leaving. John Weider, his successor, wasn't much of a bass player. Always had the impression he was chosen for his violin playing ( as Grech did, it was very important to their sound ) and because he was a perfect partner for Charlie Whitney on acoustic guitar ........

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Used to have this Family album on vinyl-Grech is brilliant on it!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFIHGJpQyaw

..but I thot How-Hi-the-Li was an instrumental that featured Ric on violin??!!??
Hmmm...looking for that fine piece of music....from Family Entertainment...
Ah~ it's called Summer '67--even better than I remembered it; very Middle Eastern:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m8_wWo-Hac&feature=related

This was never put on cd evidently. Someone's trying to get $150 for the vinyl on ebay!

Anyway...I really LOVE Blind Faith & Grech plays violin sweetly on Sea of Joy.
Saw him with Traffic - on their Welcome To The Canteen tour & Low Spark tour
Saw 'em 4 times on the Shoot Out tour with David Hood on bass!!!! Thrice around L.A. & down to San Diego where my girlfriend & I got Front Row in front of Winwood.
I was a Traffic head! I told Winwood that when I finally got to meet him in '95 at a Traffic reunion.
He said, "That's cool cuz we're playing with the Dead tomorrow in Vegas" & then hurried to the limo to take him there.

Who would have guessed in the 70s that RG would fade away & stop recording?
Sad how he fizzled out & died young.

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

I have it too and like the original album it sounds a little ... lame. Maybe I have to listen even more to it. I like Windwood, I like Traffic and I'm not one of those "Eric should've stayed with Cream and forever played his Gibsons over Marshalls"-whiners either, I even like his new solo album, he's making great progress in becoming a second rate J.J. Cale, but Windwood and Clapton together is not what I would call a combustive mix.

Ok, I'll listen to their stuff again ...

Yeah~ Listen s'more cuz Had To Cry Today is a SMOKER!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWQZAp8JpcE

[Droombolus]

This was never put on cd evidently. Someone's trying to get $150 for the vinyl on ebay!

Of course it was. Released on CD in the late 80s by See For Miles Records, there's a remaster on Pucka Records released in 2003 and it was released as a 2-fer with Music In A Doll's House on Edsel.