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Cool rock n roll photos
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RIP Robin Lumley - keyboardist, record producer, a founding member of Brand X. In the early 1970s he met the musician Jack Lancaster, co-founder of the band Blodwyn Pig, he said about that productive relationship: "I have worked with Jack on many, many occasions. It was a natural partnership because he can play just about any brass instrument and I can play keyboards, drums, very basic bass and rudimentary guitar. Jack and I were a two-man demo team since we could play all that was needed." In 1975 they collaborated on a progressive rock interpretation of Peter and the Wolf. Jack Lancaster and Robin Lumley rewrote many of the themes to Prokofiev's famous composition. The resulting album featured the who's who of art rock in the mid 1970s, including Brian Eno, Manfred Mann, Gary Brooker, Keith Tippett, Gary Moore, John Goodsall, Alvin Lee, Chris Spedding, Bill Bruford, Phil Collins, Cozy Powell, Jon Hiseman, Julie Tippett, Viv Stanshall as Narrator and Stéphane Grappelli as the cat.
Lumley became a popular session musician which led to the formation of Brand X: "Once you do that, it's a bit of a snowball effect. You start getting asked by lots of other people who've heard other things and you've suddenly cracked the impossible route of how to get into session work. So it's all a rather nice fairy tale. Then on all those sessions I used to run into Phil Collins a lot and we decided to form Brand X."
Lumley became a popular session musician which led to the formation of Brand X: "Once you do that, it's a bit of a snowball effect. You start getting asked by lots of other people who've heard other things and you've suddenly cracked the impossible route of how to get into session work. So it's all a rather nice fairy tale. Then on all those sessions I used to run into Phil Collins a lot and we decided to form Brand X."
Billy Sheehan w/ Talas, circa 1973. Look at how clean "the wife" looks. 
The Hold Steady's posters from their gigs in London this weekend.
I wonder if that 2nd Hold Steady poster is purposefully very similar to the album cover for Black Sabbath Vol 4?
American singer and songwriter Alice Cooper, guitarist Glen Buxton, costume designer Cindy Smith Dunaway, her husband bass guitarist Dennis Dunaway, guitarist Michael Bruce, drummer Neal Smith at The One Fifth Avenue Hotel. The Alice Cooper hard rock band was relaxing between their early and late shows at the Academy of Music in New York City.
Interesting positioning....bass player is so small ...he must be the least important.
Oh, for sure. And the first cops the look of Cheap Trick's first album.
Much like The Replacements Let It Be was a deliberate choice (and they were thinking of calling the next one Let It Bleed), I have no doubt this cover was intentionally made to look like Sabbath's Volume 4.
Rock n Roll and especially Metal can be so funny.
Wow!
Portrait of American musician and bass player Carmine Rojas, Brooklyn, New York, New York, 1984.
Ha, one more.
The Hold Steady's posters from their gigs in London this weekend.
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