Sopwith Camel (Band)

Sopwith Camel was a rock band founded in 1966 in San Francisco. Were combined psychedelic West Coast fragments with pop and rock and roll rhythms to " Good Time Music". Sopwith Camel were, inter alia, the opening act on Jefferson Airplane and the Rolling Stones.

They are regarded as pioneers of the psychedelic rock from San Francisco. As one of the first bands of that era they had a nationwide record deal and titled Hello, Hello ( in Germany on the Kama Sutra label appeared ) they were the first band of this style with a bigger hit in the U.S. charts.

But because in the meantime changed the cast, it took over a year to the first album, and by then she had already overtaken the development in music. After the failure of the album, the band split in 1967 again.

The early 70s, there was a reunion and a second album, but although the band name Sopwith Camel, which was derived from the nickname of a fighter plane from World War II, many a household was, the successes talking this time within limits, so that after a few years was closing again.

Members

  • William Sievers (guitar)
  • Terry MacNeil (guitar)
  • Martin Beard ( bass)
  • Norman Mayell ( percussion, harmonica )

Discography

Albums

  • Sopwith Camel, 1967 has since been re-released three times under a different title

Singles

  • Hello, Hello / Treadin ', 1967
  • Postcard From Jamaica / Little Orphan Annie, 1967
  • Saga Of The Low Down Let Down / The Great Morpheum, 1967
  • Fazon / Sleazy Street, 1973
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