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SEE MY WAY (AND CD46) £10 His first all new studio album for three years, the otherwise new material is augmented by a superb new working of his Blodwyn Pig classic See My Way, which sees him reunited with another Blodwyn Pig founder member Andy Pyle. Other star guests on the album include Elliott Randall (Steely Dan), Geoff Whitehorn, Dave Bronze, Jim Rodford, Mike Summerland, Josh Phillips, Mick Parker, Dave Lennox, Nick Payn, Steve Rodford, Graham Walker, Paul Burgess, Tracy Graham, Sharon Watson. *** THE HISTORY *** MICK ABRAHAMS & BLODWYN PIG One of Britain's finest rock and blues guitarists, Mick Abrahams, though never having achieved the commercial success of so many of his contemporaries, is truly a guitarist's guitarist, respected as a player throughout the musician's world. Of all the many musicians that have passed through the ranks of Jethro Tull, Mick Abrahams is perhaps more deserving of special mention than anyone else. Although his tour of duty was brief, and few would argue with the fact that Martin Barre is THE guitarist in Jethro Tull, it is also undeniable that big Mick Abrahams was a major factor in Jethro Tull's spectacular rise to prominence in 1968. Back then Jethro Tull was not Ian Anderson's band, it was a four-piece unit with two incredible front men. Many were drawn to the live performances by Anderson's wild antics, but others were there to see and hear Abrahams, rightly regarded as one of the premier guitarists in the country. No less an authority than Martin Barre himself first went to see Tull because he was such an admirer of Mick Abrahams' guitar playing, and Barre is still the first to stress the importance of Abrahams to the Jethro Tull success story. Musical and personal differences led to Mick quitting Tull at the end of 1968 and he went on to form Blodwyn Pig. Their two albums both charted in the top 10 UK album chart, but then he was fired from his own band! Undeterred, Mick formed a new band with Ritchie Dharma (ex of The John Evan Band), Pete Fensome and John Darnborough on violin.. That band - the curiously named Wommet - did not make any records even though they landed a BBC Radio 1 'In Concert' broadcast. In 1971, after the rapid disintegration of Wommet, Mic Next 1 of 7 back to band list Price: £10 # 151(CD46) |
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