前回は、Pete BardensがBlues Messengersを脱退しSendersへ加入して、Dave Ambroseと袂を分かった所まででしたが、今回は、某有名ドラマーとギタリスト合流までをザックリ御紹介します。
※なお、今更ですが、この本「How To Be a Rock Star」はDave Ambroseの自叙伝ですので、英文中の「I」は彼のことです。
早速ですが、Pete Bardensが、懸案だったドラマーを近所で発見します。
All they needed now was a drummer.It was at about the same time that Pete became aware of someone bashing the life out of a drum kit in the mews where he lived.Who was this arsehole doing their damnedest to wake the dead?Pete felt compelled to go and investigate.He found the culprit in a garage about three doors down from his place: a gigantic, somewhat unkempt-looking individual who introduced himself as Mick Fleetwood.
もちろん、Sendersに勧誘するのですが、意外な曲で共演します。
He wasted no time in inviting Mick to join the Senders.His first outing with the band took place at a local church youth club.They played the usual old Shadows covers.
Sendersでの活動は長続きすることなく、程なく、Pete BardensとMick Fleetwoodは、新しいバンドCheynesを立ち上げます。
Just before I'd left on my pointless voyage, I had gone down to see Mick Fleetwood's and Pete Bardens's new group the Cheynes playing at Soho's Mandrake Club on Meard Street.They'd been building a good reputation, and were now billed as an R&B outfit to watch.
※ 写真 : Cheynesなど英ビート・ロックのレア音源を集めたCD「Nowhere Men - Rare British Beat 64-66」のブックレットより
彼らはR&Bバンドとしてシングル盤もリリースし注目を集めます。
They had already released their debut single: a cover of the Isley Brothers' 'Respectable', in November 1963. I remember the first time I heard it, I was utterly gobsmacked.This was class.This was action.This was where I was supposed to be.
ちなみに、このシングル'Respectable'は、Pete Bardensのアンソロジー等に収録されています。
※左 : Pete Bardensのアンソロジー「Write My Name in the Dust-The Anthology 1963-2002」、中央 : Fleetwood Macメンバーの初期関連音源を収録した「The Fleetwood Mac Family Album」、右 : Cheynes、Beat Merchants、Birdsなど英ビート・ロックのレア音源を集めた「Nowhere Men - Rare British Beat 64-66」
ところが、Cheynesも短命に終わり、Pete BardensはThemに加入します。
By January 1965 it was all over.They went their separate ways.Pete was snapped up immediately to replace keyboard player Jackie McCauley in Belfast group Them with a mad, moody frontman by the name of Van Morrison.
※Themの1stアルバム「The Angry Young Them」
その後、色々あるのですが、Dave Ambroseの元にPete Bardensから連絡が入ります。Mick Fleetwoodとの新バンドへの勧誘です。
I was just getting into it and learning to accept my fate when, late in the autumn of 1965, I got a call out of the blue from Pete Bardens.He'd left Van Morrison and Them to throw in his lot with Mick Fleetwood, who had quit the Bo Street Runners and was now ready to do his own thing.They were launching a new instrumental band, Looners Ltd, in the style of Booker T. & the M.G.'s.
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We began our weekly residence, as Looners Limited, in September 1965.
※写真 : 「Write My Name in the Dust-The Anthology 1963-2002」のブックレットより
軋轢があってギタリストが脱退するのですが、後釜にリクルートされたのは....
Our guitarist Mick Parker was miffed by this.He quit in protest.We waved him goodbye.Guitarists were ten a penny, and Pete soon found us a credible replacement, confusingly also called Pete.
次回は、Peter Green登場です。
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