Steve Gibbons (musician)
Steve Gibbons ( born July 13, 1941 Harborne, Birmingham, England) is an English rock guitarist and singer, songwriter and bandleader. He has performed with numerous sizes of industries and is highly praised by the critics. However, greater success denied to him. In 1982, he was the first western rock musician, who was allowed to occur in the GDR. He also appeared in 1979 at the Nuremberg Zeppelin Field Openair on the opening act for The Who.
- 4.1 Studio albums
- 4.2 Live albums
Life
The Dominettes, The Uglys, The Idle Race
Steve Gibbons completed a plumbing apprenticeship in Harborne. From 1960, he was played as a guitarist and singer member of The Dominettes, a locally known group, the rhythm and blues standards. 1963 changed its name to The Dominettes in The Uglys. In 1965 she published at the Pye single Wake Up My Mind a Eigenkomposititon of Gibbons and his bandmates Burnet and Holden. More singles followed in the period 1965-1967, including the song It's allright with the group in the television show Ready Steady Go! occurred, and End Of The Season, the cover version of a song by Ray Davies of the Kinks. None of these singles could be placed in the UK charts.
The cast of The Uglys changed frequently. Some members who left the group later played at much known bands (Dave Pegg at Fairport Convention, Jimmy O'Neil in The Mind Benders and Richard Tandy in Electric Light Orchestra ).
1968 Gibbons formed a new group called Balls to the Trevor Burton (guitar), singer and guitarist Denny Laine (formerly Moody Blues, Wings later ) belonged, and the former drummer of the Uglys Keith Smart. 1971 left Gibbons, who had meanwhile taken a first solo album, the band and joined the band The Idle Race, from the soon Steve Gibbons band was.
Steve Gibbons band
In 1975, Peter Meaden, the then manager of The Who, the management of Steve Gibbons band. As a result, the band released in the same year with Any Road Up first album for Polydor and was commissioned in 1976 as the opening act with The Who on tour in the UK, Europe and the United States. Here they were on several occasions along with Little Feat, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Electric Light Orchestra, The J. Geils Band and Nils Lofgren. The follow-up album Rollin 'On contained with the classic rock ' n 'roll number Tulane also the best-selling single of the group.
After three more albums for Polydor and other line-up changes, the band released in 1981 the album Saints & Sinners at RCA. Subsequently, the band toured the first western rock band by the GDR. Another highlight of her career was the performance at the Birmingham Heart Beat Charity Concert, in which George Harrison played in 1986.
The current line-up of Steve Gibbons band consists of Steve Gibbons ( vocals, guitar, harp), Phil Bond ( piano, accordion), Brendan Day ( drums), John Caswell (bass) and Howard Gregory (guitar, violin).
The Dylan Project
Except with his own band occurs Gibbons also from time to time with the end of the 1990s established band The Dylan Project. This trio plays mostly cover versions of Bob Dylan.
Music
While Gibbons with its initial formations, according to the spirit of the times, also played psychedelic pop in a similar style as some early pieces of the status quo (eg Pictures of Matchstick Men), he later switched to classic rock 'n ' roll, in particular the influence of Chuck Berry can not deny, and soulful ballads. In recent years, he broadened his live performances at his musical base growing. In addition to elements of the blues and rock ' n ' roll can be found in his interpretations now also elements of country, rockabilly, rhythm 'n' blues, bebop or Tex -Mex. Hierbau built in his own songs often quotes from the history of rock, from the Beatles to Jimy Hendrix through to punk, a. A particular trademark is presented with his British humor introductions and narrative games during the songs. Vocally comes Gibbons Bob Dylan very close. He was also referred to as " the English Bob Seger ".
Many of his songs tell (as far as the Kinks not dissimilar ) Stories from the life of the British working class in the years after the Second World War. Common topics are beyond Motorcycles ( Triumph Bonneville, Harley Davidson, Do not trade me in ( for a new model ) ) and the music and life as a musician (He gave his live for Rock ' n' Roll, British Rock 'n 'Roll, Let there be Bebop ).
Stefan Radlmaier, the features editor of the Nürnberger Nachrichten characterized the artistic merit of Gibbons as follows: "The world is unfair. If it were not so, would a man like Steve Gibbons long been a place of honor in the pantheon of rock ' n ' roll and would occur in giant arenas " ( Nürnberger Nachrichten on 26 March 2003 ).
Steve Gibbons and Germany
The career of Steve Gibbons has on numerous references to Germany. In the 1960s, he frequently appeared in Army clubs on the territory of the former British zone of occupation (especially in Münster). In 1979 he had at the Nuremberg Zeppelin Field opening for The Who in front of more than 40,000 listeners his well- greatest performance. Two years later, he appeared on Rockpalast WDR and toured in 1982 and 1983, long before the performances by Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen there, the first Western rock musicians through the GDR. (Gibbons called these tours later as " Revelation on bothsides ". ) 2009 finally he took his (after the Rockpalast concert ) second live DVD, also in Germany, namely at a club concert in Nuremberg Kofferfabrik on.
Discography (only Steve Gibbons band in extracts )
Studio albums
Live albums
Swell
- Http://www.stevegibbons.de/
- Http://www.stevegibbonsband.com/
- Steve Gibbons: Memories of a mercurial veteran of the 60's
- Edo Reents " The Spillerige " Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 11 July 2011, p 28
- The Who: Nuremberg was no room concert music Joker No. 19/ 1979 S4ff ( 17 - September 30, 1979 ).
- Http://www.allmusic.com/artist/steve-gibbons-mn0000897301
- Http://www.softshoe-slim.com/lists/g/
- Recordings by Steve Gibbons in the catalog that German national library
- Guitarist
- Rock singer
- Songwriter
- Bandleader
- Briton
- Born in 1941
- Man