Rosko Gee is a Jamaican
bassist
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, who has played with the
English
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band
Traffic
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Traffic laws govern and regulate traffic, while rules of the road include traffi ...
on their albums ''
When the Eagle Flies
''When the Eagle Flies'' is the seventh studio album released by English rock band Traffic, in 1974. The album featured Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood and Chris Wood, with Rosko Gee on bass guitar. Percussionist Rebop Kwaku Baah was fired prior to t ...
'' (1974) and ''
The Last Great Traffic Jam
''The Last Great Traffic Jam'' is a live album and DVD from the English rock band Traffic. The album was recorded on the 1994 reunion tour supporting Far from Home.
DVD track listing
# "Pearly Queen" (Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi) – 5:35
# "Me ...
'' (2005); with
Go featuring
Stomu Yamashta
Stomu Yamashta (or Yamash'ta), born ,
is a Japanese percussionist, keyboardist and composer. He is best known for pioneering and popularising a fusion of traditional Japanese percussive music with Western progressive rock music in the 1960s and 1 ...
,
Steve Winwood,
Michael Shrieve
Michael Shrieve (born July 6, 1949) is an American drummer, percussionist, and composer. He is best known as the drummer of the rock band Santana, playing on the band's first seven albums from 1969 to 1974. At age 20, Shrieve was the second you ...
,
Klaus Schulze
Klaus Schulze (4 August 1947 – 26 April 2022) was a German electronic music pioneer, composer and musician. He also used the alias Richard Wahnfried and was a member of the Krautrock bands Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and The Cosmic Jokers ...
and
Al Di Meola; and with the
German
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band
Can, along with former Traffic percussionist
Rebop Kwaku Baah
Anthony "Rebop" Kwaku Baah (13 February 1944 – 12 January 1983) was a Ghanaian percussionist who worked with the 1970s rock groups Traffic and Can.
Biography
Baah was born on 13 February 1944, in Konongo, Gold Coast.
In 1969, Baah performe ...
, appearing on the albums ''
Saw Delight
''Saw Delight'' is the eighth studio album by the German rock band Can, and features two new band members who were ex-members of the band Traffic, Rosko Gee and Rebop Kwaku Baah, with Can's bassist Holger Czukay giving up the bass in favour o ...
'', ''
Out of Reach'' and ''
Can''. He toured with Can in 1977 and also provided vocals for some of the band's songs during this period.
In 1983, he recorded an album with
Zahara, a group with several notable members including Rebop Kwaku Baah (percussion),
Paul Delph
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(keyboards),
Bryson Graham
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Life and career
Bryson Macrae Graha ...
(drums).
After recording with Traffic in 1974 he played in the
Johnny Nash
John Lester Nash Jr. (August 19, 1940October 6, 2020) was an American singer-songwriter, best known in the United States for his 1972 hit " I Can See Clearly Now". Primarily a reggae and pop singer, he was one of the first non-Jamaican artists ...
band, Sons of the Jungle.
He played bass in the house band of
Harald Schmidt
Harald Franz Schmidt (born 18 August 1957) is a German actor, comedian, television presenter and writer best known as the host of two popular German late-night shows.
Early and private life
A son of refugees who fled from Sudetenland (now C ...
's various late night TV shows on
German television
Television in Germany began in Berlin on 22 March 1935, broadcasting for 90 minutes three times a week. It was home to the first public television station in the world, named ''Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow''.
In 2000, the German television market h ...
from 1996 to 2014.
His band Rosko Gee & The Hooded Ones released its first single in January 2015.
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Living people
English rock bass guitarists
Male bass guitarists
Progressive rock bass guitarists
Can (band) members
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Zahara (band) members
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