Aynsley Thomas Dunbar (born 10 January 1946) is an English drummer.
He has worked with
John Mayall
John Mayall, OBE (born 29 November 1933) is an English blues singer, musician and songwriter, whose musical career spans over sixty years. In the 1960s, he was the founder of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, a band that has counted among it ...
,
Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader. His work is characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity and satire of ...
,
Jeff Beck
Geoffrey Arnold Beck (born 24 June 1944) is an English rock guitarist. He rose to prominence with the Yardbirds and after fronted the Jeff Beck Group and Beck, Bogert & Appice. In 1975, he switched to a mainly instrumental style, with a fo ...
,
Journey
Journey or journeying may refer to:
* Travel, the movement of people between distant geographical locations
** Day's journey, a measurement of distance
** Road trip, a long-distance journey on the road
Animals
* Journey (horse), a thoroughbred ra ...
,
Jefferson Starship
Jefferson Starship is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1974 by a group of musicians including former members of Jefferson Airplane. Between 1974 and 1984, they released eight gold or platinum-selling studio albu ...
,
Nils Lofgren
Nils Hilmer Lofgren (born June 21, 1951) is an American rock musician, recording artist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Along with his work as a solo artist, he has been a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band since 1984, a memb ...
,
Eric Burdon
Eric Victor Burdon (born 11 May 1941) is an English singer. He was previously the lead vocalist of R&B and rock band the Animals and funk band War. He is regarded as one of the British Invasion's most distinctive singers with his deep, pow ...
,
Shuggie Otis
Johnny Shuggie Otis (born Johnny Alexander Veliotes, Jr.; November 30, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter, recording artist, and multi-instrumentalist.
Otis's composition " Strawberry Letter 23" (as recorded by The Brothers Johnson) toppe ...
,
Ian Hunter,
Lou Reed
Lewis Allan Reed (March 2, 1942October 27, 2013) was an American musician, songwriter, and poet. He was the guitarist, singer, and principal songwriter for the rock band the Velvet Underground and had a solo career that spanned five decades ...
,
David Bowie
David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie ( ), was an English singer-songwriter and actor. A leading figure in the music industry, he is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the ...
,
Mick Ronson
Michael Ronson (26 May 1946 – 29 April 1993) was an English musician, songwriter, arranger, and producer. He achieved critical and commercial success working with David Bowie as the guitarist of the Spiders from Mars. He was a session musici ...
,
Whitesnake
Whitesnake are an English hard rock band formed in London in 1978. The group was originally put together as the backing band for singer David Coverdale, who had recently left Deep Purple. Though the band quickly developed into their own en ...
,
Pat Travers
Patrick Henry Travers (born April 12, 1954) is a Canadian rock guitarist, keyboardist and singer who began his recording career in the mid-1970s.
Early life
Travers was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. Soon after picking up the guitar at ag ...
,
Sammy Hagar
Samuel Roy Hagar (born October 13, 1947), also known as the Red Rocker, is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He rose to prominence in the early 1970s with the hard rock band Montrose and subsequently launched a successful solo car ...
,
Michael Schenker
Michael Schenker (born 10 January 1955) is a German guitarist. He played in the rock band UFO and leads the Michael Schenker Group. He was an early member of the hard rock band Scorpions, a band co-founded by his elder brother Rudolf Schenker ...
,
UFO
An unidentified flying object (UFO), more recently renamed by US officials as a UAP (unidentified aerial phenomenon), is any perceived aerial phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified or explained. On investigation, most UFOs are ide ...
,
Michael Chapman,
Jake E. Lee,
Leslie West
Leslie West (born Leslie Abel Weinstein; October 22, 1945 – December 23, 2020) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was the co-founder, guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the rock band Mountain.
Life and career Early years: 1 ...
,
Kathi McDonald
Kathryn Marie "Kathi" McDonald (September 25, 1948 – October 3, 2012) was an American blues and rock singer and songwriter. As a teenager she sang with different bands around the Pacific Northwest before she was discovered by Ike Turner. She ...
,
Keith Emerson
Keith Noel Emerson (2 November 1944 – 11 March 2016) was an English keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer. He played keyboards in a number of bands before finding his first commercial success with the Nice in the late 1960s. He becam ...
, Mike Onesko,
Herbie Mann
Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003), known by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flute player and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played tenor saxophone and clarinet (inclu ...
and
Flo & Eddie. Dunbar was inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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as a member of Journey in 2017.
Career
Aynsley Thomas Dunbar was born in
Liverpool
Liverpool is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the List of English districts by population, 10th largest English district by population and its E ...
, England. He started his professional career in Derry Wilkie and the Pressmen in 1963. In December 1964 he joined
Merseybeat
Beat music, British beat, or Merseybeat is a British popular music genre that developed, particularly in and around Liverpool, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The genre melded influences from American rock and roll, rhythm and blues, skiffle ...
group
the Mojos
The Mojos were a British beat group from the 1960s, best known for their hit UK single, " Everything's Alright", with two other singles charting low in the UK Singles Chart in 1964.
Biography
The band formed under the name the Nomads as a ...
, who were renamed Stu James & the Mojos, with original members vocalist Stu James and guitarist Nick Crouch and bass player
Lewis Collins
Lewis Collins (27 May 1946 – 27 November 2013)"Happy Birthday Richard Hastilow, 65", ''The Times'', 26 May 2010 was an English actor, best known for his career-defining role playing 'Bodie' in the late 1970s – early 1980s British television ...
(later an actor in ''
The Professionals''). This line-up continued until 1966. Dunbar then auditioned for
the Jimi Hendrix Experience
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most ...
and Hendrix had difficulty deciding between Dunbar and
Mitch Mitchell
John Graham "Mitch" Mitchell (9 July 194612 November 2008)In his book about the Experience, Mitchell states he celebrated his 21st birthday while on tour on 9 July 1967, which makes his birth year 1946.Mitchell's obituaries in ''Billboard' ''T ...
– the latter won Hendrix's coin flip. Dunbar then joined
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers replacing
Hughie Flint. He stayed with Mayall until the spring of 1967 (playing on the ''
A Hard Road'' album), and was replaced by
Mick Fleetwood
Michael John Kells Fleetwood (born 24 June 1947) is a British musician, songwriter and occasional actor. He is best known as the drummer, co-founder, and leader of the rock band Fleetwood Mac. Fleetwood, whose surname was merged with that of t ...
.
After a short stint in
the Jeff Beck Group
The Jeff Beck Group was a British rock band formed in London in January 1967 by former Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck. Their innovative approach to heavy-sounding blues, rhythm and blues and rock was a major influence on popular music.
Firs ...
, Dunbar founded 'the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation',
so named to chide Mayall, who had fired him. They issued four albums during their existence. Dunbar co-wrote the song "Warning" (later recorded by
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1968 by guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward, bassist Geezer Butler and vocalist Ozzy Osbourne. They are often cited as pioneers of heavy metal music. The band helped def ...
on
their first album).
The Dunbar single version was recorded in 1967 for the Blue Horizon label, prior to his band's first album release ''The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation'' (1968
).
Subsequently, Dunbar founded a short-lived progressive rock band called Blue Whale, which debuted with a tour of Scandinavia in January 1970.
Following the recent collapse of the original lineup of
King Crimson
King Crimson are a progressive rock band formed in 1968 in London, England. The band draws inspiration from a wide variety of music, incorporating elements of classical, jazz, folk, heavy metal, gamelan, industrial, electronic, experime ...
, Dunbar unsuccessfully tried to recruit
Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946) is a British musician, songwriter, record producer, and author, best known as the guitarist, founder and longest-lasting member of the progressive rock band King Crimson. He has worked extensively as a sessio ...
as Blue Whale's guitarist. Fripp, in turn, unsuccessfully tried to recruit Dunbar as King Crimson's new drummer. Blue Whale recorded one album, which featured Paul Williams (vocals),
Ivan Zagni
Ivan Zagni (born 16 October 1942) is a New Zealand-based musician and composer who has been a member of bands such as Jody Grind, Big Sideways and Avant Garage, and has recorded albums with Aynsley Dunbar, Elton Dean, Don McGlashan and Peter Scho ...
(guitar), Roger Sutton (guitar), Tommy Eyre (from Retaliation, keys) and Peter Friedberg (bass).
Dunbar was later the drummer for
Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader. His work is characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity and satire of ...
, playing on the solo albums ''
Apostrophe (')'' and ''
Waka/Jawaka
''Waka/Jawaka'' (also known as ''Waka/Jawaka — Hot Rats'') is the fourth solo album by Frank Zappa, released in July 1972. The album is the jazz-influenced precursor to ''The Grand Wazoo'' (November 1972), and as the front cover indicates, a seq ...
'', and the
Mothers
]
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' albums ''
The Grand Wazoo'' and ''
Fillmore East – June 1971
''Fillmore East – June 1971'' is a live album by The Mothers, released in 1971. It is the twelfth album in Frank Zappa's discography, and was produced by Zappa and mixed by Toby Foster.
History
''Fillmore East – June 1971'' is a live concept ...
'', as well as the film ''
200 Motels
''200 Motels'' is a 1971 surrealist musical film written and directed by Frank Zappa and Tony Palmer, and featuring music by Zappa. An international co-production of United States and the United Kingdom, the film stars the Mothers of Invention, T ...
''. He filled in for Flo and Eddie when they left the Zappa group after an irate British "fan" pushed Zappa off the
Rainbow
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stage in 1971. In 1974 he played on the soundtrack of ''
Dirty Duck'', an adult animated film directed by
Charles Swenson. In the mid-1970s Dunbar played drums for former
Grin leader,
Nils Lofgren
Nils Hilmer Lofgren (born June 21, 1951) is an American rock musician, recording artist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Along with his work as a solo artist, he has been a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band since 1984, a memb ...
, before joining
Journey
Journey or journeying may refer to:
* Travel, the movement of people between distant geographical locations
** Day's journey, a measurement of distance
** Road trip, a long-distance journey on the road
Animals
* Journey (horse), a thoroughbred ra ...
for their first four albums. He joined
Jefferson Starship
Jefferson Starship is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1974 by a group of musicians including former members of Jefferson Airplane. Between 1974 and 1984, they released eight gold or platinum-selling studio albu ...
for three albums. On 28 December 1978, he played at Winterland in San Francisco with
the Tubes
The Tubes are a San Francisco-based rock band. Their eponymous 1975 debut album included the single " White Punks on Dope," while their 1983 single " She's a Beauty" was a top-10 U.S. hit and its music video was frequently played in the early ...
. Dunbar joined
Whitesnake
Whitesnake are an English hard rock band formed in London in 1978. The group was originally put together as the backing band for singer David Coverdale, who had recently left Deep Purple. Though the band quickly developed into their own en ...
in 1985 and performed on their 1987 album, ''
Whitesnake
Whitesnake are an English hard rock band formed in London in 1978. The group was originally put together as the backing band for singer David Coverdale, who had recently left Deep Purple. Though the band quickly developed into their own en ...
''. He also spent some time working with
Pat Travers
Patrick Henry Travers (born April 12, 1954) is a Canadian rock guitarist, keyboardist and singer who began his recording career in the mid-1970s.
Early life
Travers was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. Soon after picking up the guitar at ag ...
,
Eric Burdon
Eric Victor Burdon (born 11 May 1941) is an English singer. He was previously the lead vocalist of R&B and rock band the Animals and funk band War. He is regarded as one of the British Invasion's most distinctive singers with his deep, pow ...
,
UFO
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,
Michael Schenker
Michael Schenker (born 10 January 1955) is a German guitarist. He played in the rock band UFO and leads the Michael Schenker Group. He was an early member of the hard rock band Scorpions, a band co-founded by his elder brother Rudolf Schenker ...
,
Mogg/Way and
the Animals
The Animals (also billed as Eric Burdon and the Animals) are an English rock band, formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in the early 1960s. The band moved to London upon finding fame in 1964. The Animals were known for their gritty, bluesy sound and ...
.
He has been the drummer for the
World Classic Rockers since 2003. In 2005, he drummed on
Jake E. Lee's solo ''
Retraced'' album.
In 2008 Dunbar recorded an album of material for Direct Music with
Mickey Thomas of
Starship
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The term is mostly found in science fiction. Reference to a "star-ship" appears as early as 1882 in '' Oahspe: A Ne ...
, and musicians such as Jake E. Lee, former guitarist for
Ozzy Osbourne
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) is an English singer, songwriter, and television personality. He rose to prominence during the 1970s as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, during which period he adop ...
. The complete recordings of Dunbar's drumming with Frank Zappa at
Carnegie Hall
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in October 1971 were released exactly 40 years after the event in a four-CD set.
In 2009 the blues album ''The Bluesmasters featuring Mickey Thomas'' was released, featuring Dunbar on drums along with Tim Tucker on guitar and Danny Miranda on bass as well as guest stars such as Magic Slim on guitar and vocals.
''
Drummerworld
Drummerworld is a Swiss drum website created by Bernhard Castiglioni in 1997. The site focuses on the biographies of prominent rock and jazz drummers and drum lessons, along with a discussion forum.
Popularity and awards
Half of ''Drumme ...
'' recognized Dunbar as the only drummer to have played with such robust variety of successful bands and musicians. In 2017 Aynsley was inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (RRHOF), sometimes simply referred to as the Rock Hall, is a museum and hall of fame located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on the shore of Lake Erie. The museum documents the history of rock music and ...
as a member of Journey. Dunbar was ranked by ''
Rolling Stone
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'' as 27th greatest drummer of all time.
Personal life
Dunbar's youngest son Dash was diagnosed with cancer in June 1999 and died on 9 May 2000.
Discography
With John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
* ''
A Hard Road'' (1967)
* ''
Looking Back'' (1969)
* ''So Many Roads'' (1969)
* ''
Thru the Years'' (1971)
With Eddie Boyd
* ''
Eddie Boyd and His Blues Band Featuring
Peter Green'' (1967)
With Michael Chapman
*''Rainmaker'' (1969)
The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation
* ''
The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation'' (1968)
* ''Doctor Dunbar's Prescription'' (1968)
* ''To Mum, From Aynsley & The Boys'' (1969
)
* ''
Remains to Be Heard'' (1970)
* ''Watchin' Chain'' (unknown; BYG 529501)
With Blue Whale
* ''Blue Whale'' (1971)
With Frank Zappa and the Mothers
* ''
Chunga's Revenge
''Chunga's Revenge'' is the third solo album by Frank Zappa, released on October 23, 1970. Zappa's first effort of the 1970s marks the first appearance of former Turtles members Flo & Eddie on a Zappa record, and signals the dawn of a controve ...
'' (1970)
* ''
Fillmore East - June 1971 Fillmore may refer to:
Places Canada
* Fillmore, Saskatchewan
* Rural Municipality of Fillmore No. 96, Saskatchewan
United States
* Fillmore, California
* Fillmore District, San Francisco, California
* Fillmore, Louisiana
* Fillmore, Illin ...
'' (1971)
* ''
200 Motels
''200 Motels'' is a 1971 surrealist musical film written and directed by Frank Zappa and Tony Palmer, and featuring music by Zappa. An international co-production of United States and the United Kingdom, the film stars the Mothers of Invention, T ...
'' (1971)
* ''
Just Another Band from L.A.'' (1972)
* ''
Waka/Jawaka
''Waka/Jawaka'' (also known as ''Waka/Jawaka — Hot Rats'') is the fourth solo album by Frank Zappa, released in July 1972. The album is the jazz-influenced precursor to ''The Grand Wazoo'' (November 1972), and as the front cover indicates, a seq ...
'' (1972)
* ''
The Grand Wazoo'' (1972)
* ''
Apostrophe (')'' (1974)
* ''
You Can%27t Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1
''You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1'' is a double disc live album by Frank Zappa. It was released in 1988 (see 1988 in music) under the label Rykodisc. It was the beginning of a six-volume, 12-CD set Zappa assembled of live performances ...
'' (1988)
* ''
You Can%27t Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3'' (1991)
* ''
You Can%27t Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6'' (1992)
* ''
Playground Psychotics
''Playground Psychotics'' is a two-CD live album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. It was originally released in 1992 through his mail order label, Barking Pumpkin, and was re-released in 1995 through Rykodisc. The album features reco ...
'' (1992)
* ''
The Lost Episodes
''The Lost Episodes'' is a 1996 posthumous album by Frank Zappa which compiles (with the exception of "I Don't Want to Get Drafted" and "Any Way the Wind Blows") previously unreleased material. Much of the material covered dates from early in his ...
'' (1996)
* ''
Joe%27s Domage'' (2004)
* ''
Quaudiophiliac
''Quaudiophiliac'' (styled ''QuAUDIOPHILIAc'') is a compilation album featuring music by Frank Zappa, released in DVD-Audio format by Barking Pumpkin Records in 2004. It compiles recordings he made while experimenting with quadraphonic, or four-ch ...
'' (2004)
* ''
Carnegie Hall
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'' (2011)
* ''
Finer Moments'' (2012)
* ''
Road Tapes, Venue 3'' (2016)
* ''The Mothers 1970'' (2020)
* ''Zappa - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'' (2021)
With Shuggie Otis
* ''
Freedom Flight'' (1971)
With Flo & Eddie
* ''
The Phlorescent Leech & Eddie (album)'' (1972)
* ''
Flo & Eddie (album)'' (1973)
With David Bowie
*''
Pin Ups'' (1973)
*''
Diamond Dogs
''Diamond Dogs'' is the eighth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released on 24 May 1974 through RCA Records. Bowie produced the album and recorded it in early 1974 at Olympic and Island Studios in London and Ludolph Studios i ...
'' (1974)
With Lou Reed
*''
Berlin
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'' (1973)
With
Herbie Mann
Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003), known by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flute player and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played tenor saxophone and clarinet (inclu ...
*''
London Underground
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The ...
'' (Atlantic, 1973)
With Ava Cherry and the Astronettes
*''People from Bad Homes'' (1973)
With Kathi McDonald
*''
Insane Asylum
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The fall of the lunatic asylum and its eventual replacement by modern psychiatric hospitals explains the rise of organized, institutional psychiatry ...
'' (1974)
With Mick Ronson
*''
Slaughter on 10th Avenue'' (1974)
*''
Play Don't Worry'' (1975)
With Nils Lofgren
*''
Nils Lofgren
Nils Hilmer Lofgren (born June 21, 1951) is an American rock musician, recording artist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Along with his work as a solo artist, he has been a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band since 1984, a memb ...
'' (1975)
*''
Cry Tough'' (1976)
With Ian Hunter
*''
All American Alien Boy'' (1976)
With Journey
*''
Journey
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* Travel, the movement of people between distant geographical locations
** Day's journey, a measurement of distance
** Road trip, a long-distance journey on the road
Animals
* Journey (horse), a thoroughbred ra ...
'' (1975)
*''
Look into the Future
''Look into the Future'' is the second studio album by Journey. It was released in January 1976 by Columbia Records.
For their second album, the members of Journey toned down the overt progressiveness of their first, self-titled release, in fa ...
'' (1976)
*''
Next
Next may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Film
* ''Next'' (1990 film), an animated short about William Shakespeare
* ''Next'' (2007 film), a sci-fi film starring Nicolas Cage
* '' Next: A Primer on Urban Painting'', a 2005 documentary film
Lit ...
'' (1977)
*''
Infinity
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Since the time of the ancient Greeks, the philosophical nature of infinity was the subject of many discussions am ...
'' (1978)
With Sammy Hagar
*''
Nine on a Ten Scale
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'' (1976)
With Jefferson Starship
*''
Freedom at Point Zero'' (1979)
*''
Modern Times'' (1981)
*''
Winds of Change'' (1982)
With Paul Kantner
*''
Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra
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'' (1983)
With Whitesnake
* ''
Whitesnake
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'' (1987)
* ''
1987 Versions'' (1987)
With Ronnie Montrose
* ''
The Diva Station
''The Diva Station'' is a mix of instrumental rock music with three songs with vocals. Former Gamma vocalist Davey Pattison reunites for two songs with Ronnie Montrose.
Track listing
# "Sorcerer" (Ronnie Montrose) 6:24
# "The Diva Station" (Mo ...
'' (1990)
With Pat Travers
*''Just a Touch'' (1992)
*''Blues Magnet'' (1994)
*''P.T. Power Trio'' (2003)
With Mogg/Way
*''
Edge of the World
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'' (1997)
With Mother's Army
*''
Fire on the Moon'' (1998)
With Michael Schenker
*''
The Unforgiven'' (1998)
*''
Adventures of the Imagination'' (2000)
With UFO
* ''
Covenant
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Religion
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** Covenant (biblical), in the Hebrew Bible
** Covenant in Mormonism, a sacred agreement b ...
'' (2000)
* ''
Sharks
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'' (2002)
With Leslie West
* ''Blues to Die For'' (2003)
With Jake E. Lee
*''
Retraced'' (2005)
With Keith Emerson
*''Off the Shelf'' (2006)
Aynsley Dunbar
* ''Mutiny' ' (2008).
Bibliography
*
Bob Brunning
Robert Brunning (29 June 1943 – 18 October 2011) was a British musician who was, as a small part of a long musical career, the original bass guitar player with the blues rock band Fleetwood Mac.
Career
Fleetwood Mac
When Peter Green left t ...
(1986) ''Blues: The British Connection'', London: Helter Skelter, 2002,
*
Dick Heckstall-Smith
Richard Malden Heckstall-Smith (26 September 1934 – 17 December 2004) was an English jazz and blues saxophonist. He played with some of the most influential English blues rock and jazz fusion bands of the 1960s and 1970s. He is known for pri ...
(2004) ''The Safest Place in the World: A Personal History of British Rhythm and blues'', Clear Books, – First Edition : ''Blowing The Blues – Fifty Years Playing The
British Blues
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''
* Christopher Hjort ''Strange Brew:
Eric Clapton
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and the
British Blues
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Boom, 1965–1970'', foreword by
John Mayall
John Mayall, OBE (born 29 November 1933) is an English blues singer, musician and songwriter, whose musical career spans over sixty years. In the 1960s, he was the founder of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, a band that has counted among it ...
, Jawbone (2007)
* Paul Myers: ''
Long John Baldry
John William "Long John" Baldry (12 January 1941 – 21 July 2005) was an English musician and actor. In the 1960s, he was one of the first British vocalists to sing the blues in clubs and shared the stage with many British musicians including ...
and the Birth of the
British Blues
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'',
Vancouver
Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. ...
2007 – GreyStone Books
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Alexis Korner
Alexis Andrew Nicholas Koerner (19 April 1928 – 1 January 1984), known professionally as Alexis Korner, was a British blues musician and radio broadcaster, who has sometimes been referred to as "a founding father of British blues". A major in ...
: The Biography'', Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London 1997, Discography by Mark Troster
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1946 births
Living people
English rock drummers
The Mothers of Invention members
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers members
Journey (band) members
Whitesnake members
UFO (band) members
Jefferson Starship members
Charly Records artists
Musicians from Liverpool
English blues musicians
English session musicians
English expatriates in the United States
Glam rock musicians
The Jeff Beck Group members
Mother's Army members
World Classic Rockers members
Blue Thumb Records artists