Max Eider (real name, Peter Millson) is an English guitarist and songwriter.
He studied English literature at University College,
Oxford
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, graduating in Trinity Term 1980. He played guitar with
Pat Fish
Patrick Huntrods (20 December 1957 – 5 October 2021), known as Pat Fish, was an English musician best known for his work as a member of the band The Jazz Butcher. (The name "Jazz Butcher" has been applied ambiguously both to Fish and the whole ...
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The Jazz Butcher
The Jazz Butcher was the alias of British singer/songwriter Pat Fish (Patrick Huntrods). It also served as the name of the band, though adjuncts were frequently used to distinguish between Fish’s persona and band itself (The Jazz Butcher Consp ...
) from June 1982 until 27 November 1986, when after an alcohol-fuelled altercation with Fish, he left the band.
[An extensive list of gigs with the Jazz Butcher appears on thei]
website
/ref> He went on to record a solo album, ''The Best Kisser in the World'', which mixes up-temp indie pop
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numbers ("Let Somebody Down" and "Quiet Lives") with songs in a moodier, jazz-influenced style. He also played on recordings by others, including ''Songs from Another Season'' by David J
David John Haskins (born 24 April 1957, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England), better known as David J, is a British alternative rock musician, producer, and writer. He is the bassist for the gothic rock band Bauhaus and for Love and Rock ...
.
He rejoined the Jazz Butcher for what was billed as the last ever Jazz Butcher gig on 21 December 1995, and has performed and recorded with Fish since, on the live album ''Glorious and Idiotic'' (2000) and the studio album ''Rotten Soul''. 2002 saw the release of a second solo album, ''Hotel Figueroa'', and a third, ''Max Eider III'', appeared in 2007.
In 2010 Eider released his fourth solo album ''Disaffection'' on Tundraducks Records.
Solo discography
* ''The Best Kisser in the World'' (1987, Big Time)
* ''Hotel Figueroa'' (2002, Vinyl Japan)
* ''Back In The Bedroom'' (2007, Tundraducks Records)
* ''Disaffection'' (2010, Tundraducks Records)
* ''Duckdance'' (2014, Tundraduck Records)
References
External links
Official website
English pop guitarists
English rock guitarists
English male guitarists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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