Buddy Miles
Buddy Miles ( born September 5, 1947 in Omaha, Nebraska, † February 26, 2008 in Austin (Texas), actually George Allen Miles ) was an American rock, blues, soul and funk drummer and singer.
Life
The age of nine began Miles playing drums and at age twelve he joined the jazz band at his father. In the late 1950s he played with various vocal groups, including the Ink Spots, the Delfonics and Ruby & the Romantics. When he toured in 1966 with Wilson Pickett, Michael Bloomfield was aware of him, which Miles member of The Electric Flag was. Bloomfield's retirement in 1968 made him even briefly to the front man of the band. The published during this time second album flopped however, and Miles got out.
In the same year he founded his own band called Buddy Miles Express. The band stayed with Mercury Records and Jimi Hendrix could win as producers for their debut Expressway to Your Skull. Miles operated in the episode as a studio musician on Hendrix's Electric Ladyland and Muddy Waters ' Fathers And Sons.
In 1969, Electric Church, the second album by the Buddy Miles Express, on the market. It was again produced by Jimi Hendrix. After Hendrix disbanded at the end of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, he and Miles and bassist Billy Cox, the Band of Gypsys. But as early as 1970 Miles left the band again. He supported John McLaughlin on his album Devotion and in 1971 published his best-known solo work Them Changes. Between December 1971 and April 1972 Miles toured with Carlos Santana then. Documented the tour on the published in June 1972 album Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live, which was recorded in the crater of a dormant Hawaiian volcano.
Between 1973 and 1976 a total of five albums published Miles, it was provisionally quiet around him. An exception is the 1981 Atlantic Records released album Sneak Attack. 1986 Miles became the " lead singer " of the California Raisins, a fictional rhythm and blues group of animated raisins figures that had been invented in order to advertise the California Raisins industry. In her most famous commercial Miles sang the thematically appropriate song I Heard It Through the Grapevine by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong.
1987 Miles worked, this time as a lead singer, one more time for Carlos Santana. In the early 1990s he played with Bootsy Collins, and in 1994 he called the Buddy Miles Express back to life. It produced two more albums. In 1997 he toured with More Experience in 20 concerts throughout Italy. In 2002 he formed a new band, the Blues Berries, and toured with Mitch Mitchell and Randy Hansen in Europe.
Miles died in the sixtieth year of heart failure.
Discography
- Expressway to Your Skull ( 1968)
- Electric Church ( 1969)
- Them Changes (1970 )
- We've Got to Live Together ( 1970)
- A Message to the People (1971 )
- Buddy Miles Live (1971 )
- With Carlos Santana ( 1972)
- Booger Bear ( 1973)
- Chapter VII (1973 )
- All the Faces of Buddy Miles (1974 )
- More Miles Per Gallon (1975 )
- Bicentennial Gathering of the Tribes (1976 )
- Sneak Attack ( 1981)
- Hell and Back (1994 )
- Tribute to Jimi Hendrix (1997)
- Miles Away from Home (1997)
- Blues Berries ( 2002)