Miller Anderson (musician)
Miller Anderson ( born April 12, 1945 in Houston, Renfrewshire, Scotland ) is a British blues and rock musicians. He was known as a guitarist and singer among others, Keef Hartley and Savoy Brown.
Miller Anderson began his musical career in the mid 1960s with bands such as The Royal Crests, Karl Stuart & the Profiles and The Scenery. 1968 Anderson played in At Last The 1958 Rock N Roll show, which renamed itself in Charlie Woolfe in the same year.
In November 1968, Anderson joined the Keef Hartley band to perform at the Woodstock Festival in 1969. With Keef Hartley Anderson recorded the albums Half Breed ( 1969), The Battle Of North West Six (1969 ), The Time Is Near (1970), Overdog (1971) and Little Big Band (1971). He also wrote a lot of the songs. On the first two albums he wrote under the pseudonym Hewitson, because he was not allowed to use his name for contractual reasons.
1971 Keef Hartley left Anderson and produced the solo album, Bright City. In 1973, he founded the band Hemlock, with whom he recorded an album and toured as support for Uriah Heep. 1974 Anderson went to the blues band Savoy Brown, who already had two excellent guitarist Stan Webb and Kim Simmonds. The result was the album Boogie Brothers, but left the band Anderson at the end of the same year.
1975 Miller Anderson worked again with Keef Hartley. Together they formed the band Dog Soldier, which brought an album of the same name on the market.
Mid-1976 was Anderson band member of T. Rex. Singer Marc Bolan hired him as second guitarist and backing vocalist for his " comeback band". After they had together the album " Dandy In The Underworld" received and completed successful tours through France and Great Britain, he left the band in June 1977. He had had enough of the many lip syncing wanted again "live" play and was still in same year with Donovan on tour. This was followed by a tour as opening act for Yes. In 1979, Anderson co-founded the band The Dukes, which started an album, among other things, went on tour with Wishbone Ash.
It followed from 1982 a collaboration with Stan Webb, first in his band Speedway, then in 1984 in the new edition of Chicken Shack. After a brief stint at Mountain Anderson participated in the revival of the Spencer Davis Group. With their drummer Pete York, singer Chris Farlowe and other colleagues, he recorded the album Super Blues. Miller Anderson was also the master tape of Pete York's successful television series Superdrumming.
In the 1990s, Anderson was both solo and with well-known musicians such as Jon Lord Roger Chapman and go. He continued to play with the Spencer Davis Group, and there was a revival of his early band The Scenery. Appeared in 1997, the solo album Celtic Moon, produced by the German blues and rock guitarist Frank Diez, and 2003 Blue Heart. The Spencer Davis Group have been published three live albums, on which Miller is heard on guitar and vocals: 1997 Payin ' My Dues To The Blues, Live In Manchester 2002 and 2006 Official Bootleg. He was also in 2007 with the band The British Blues Quintet ( with Maggie Bell, Zoot Money, Colin Hodgkinson and Colin Allen) on Tour, from the album Live was published in Glasgow ( Recorded At The Ferry ) in November 2007.
In 2012, he joined the Hamburg Blues Band and went with them in the fall of 2012 and spring of 2013 on tour in Germany.