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Today we release some t-shirts of brilliant musicians that perhaps have not always been as acclaimed as they should have been. Not obscure exactly but you have to love the details of classic rock to appreciate them.
Take Eddie Jobson, a brilliant musician who played a plexi-glass violin and keyboards for loads of amazing bands from Zappa to Roxy Music. My favourite of his is UK, a tremendous jazz-fusion outfit in the late 70s. Not super-commercial but superb.
Perhaps that could be said of Jimmy Dewar who all Robin Trower fans know had one of the finest voices in any genre, but who most have never heard of. It often seemed to work like that. Take Dave Cousins of the Strawbs, a marvellous instrumentalist and songwriter, similarly Kim Simmonds of Savoy Brown who’d been out of the limelight for maybe 45 years but he played the blues till the end. As does Stan Webb of Chicken Shack and Savoy Brown, now in his late 70s.
Alvin Lee needs no introduction of course but by his last US tour was already falling into rock’s ‘where are they now’ file. Likewise Paul Kantner was a counterculture star, but never seemed part of the fame game. And that’s certainly true of Al Stewart and Allan Holdsworth, a genius guitarist who influenced more famous guitarists. And when it comes to influential, Leslie West’s unique tone was certainly that and similarly Dave Mason’s melodious and well constructed songs are still played today by the likes of Gov’t Mule and Tedeschi Trucks Band and finally Michael Chapman proved you can produce non-commercial music but still be popular and well-respected as a musician.
We celebrate them all, they were important parts of the warp and weft of our rock n roll lives.
