Badger (Band)
Badger is a Founded in 1972, British progressive rock band.
After Tony Kaye (first keyboardist for Yes), the group Flash, which he had ( also original member of Yes) co-founded with Peter Banks had left, he founded in 1972 together with bassist David Foster, who already together with Yes singer Jon Anderson had worked for the Warriors, the band Badger as his own " progressive supergroup ". The band was complemented by the drummer Roy Dyke, a former member of the Remo Four, Family and Ashton, Gardner & Dyke, with whom he recorded the 1971 worldwide hit Resurrection Shuffle. The fourth member was Brian Parrish, former Medicine Head ( where he already met with Roy Dyke ), Three Man Army and Paul Gurvitz.
The debut album " One Live Badger " from 1973 contained, similar to the first Yes albums, long instrumental pieces, but did not meet the public's taste. Looking for new inspiration Kaye and Dyke found the ex- Stealers Wheel guitarist Paul Pilnick who replaced Foster. At the same Dykes old companion Kim Gardner was hired as a bass player. The search for a frontman and songwriter Jackie Lomax ended at Liverpool, who has previously. Having The Undertakers and had made as a solo artist earned on the Beatles' Apple Records label. Lomax transformed Badger from a progressive rock band to a soul - oriented R & B band and wrote all the songs for the second album of the band " White Lady " from the year 1974. The album was recorded in New Orleans in the studio of producer Allen Toussaint, has provoked the band after a gig in Croydon 's Fairfield Hall as the opening act of the Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO).
Then Lomax returned to his solo career and recorded more albums for Capitol and Warner Brothers. As a studio musician he collaborated with Rod Stewart on the " Foolish Behaviour " LP. Roy Dyke can be found in projects in the Cafe Society together with Pat Travers and Chris Barber, while Tony Kaye Member after brief appearances in The Detectives and Badfinger in 1983 returned to Yes. Paul Pilnick is active in groups such as Deaf School and Joe Egan, Kim Gardner 's session bassist for Dwight Twilley.