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by Tero » Wed Aug 10, 2011 3:50 pm
Then there is my favorite obscure Bond, by now. I have no recordings
of him but he was a big influence on Mayall:
Graham John Clifton Bond (28 October 1937 in Romford, Essex – 8 May
1974 at Finsbury Park Station, North London) was an English musician,
considered a founding father of the English rhythm and blues boom of
the 1960s.
Bond was an innovator, described as "an important, underappreciated
figure of early British R&B",[1] Along with John Mayall and Alexis
Korner, and one of the great catalytic figures of 1960s rock music.
Jack Bruce, John McLaughlin and Ginger Baker first achieved prominence
in his group the Graham Bond Organisation when Bond had already been
voted Britain's New Jazz Star in 1961[2] after appearances with Don
Rendell on alto sax. He may have introduced the Hammond
organ/Leslie speaker combination into British rhythm and blues - he
"split" the Hammond for portability - and he played a mellotron on his
first two LPs. As such he was a major influence upon later rock
keyboardists: Deep Purple's Jon Lord said "He taught me, hands on,
most of what I know about the Hammond organ,".