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Post by Aqualung55 on Sept 17, 2009 13:02:45 GMT
Last month, I was alerted to the fact that Terry Reid was playing a gig in his hometown Huntingdon, and though I'm a St. Helens lad, I have lived in Huntingdon since 1987. I had heard of Terry Reid but not really made the effort to learn more about him.
I am glad I did. He not only turned down the chance to jojn what was to become Led Zeppelin - recommending John Bonham and Robert Plant to boot, but also turned down Deep Purple. Then again, when you get offered the support gig to The Rolling Stones on a US tour whilst still in your teens, it is perhaps no surprise.
So having done a bit of research, I duly shelled out a tenner, and what a piece of good business that was. He is simply one of the best vocalists - still, at 59 - I have heard. He oozes soul and passion, and I have now treated myself to a few albums. He supported early Tull gigs, by the way.
Why this man was never a major success I will never know.
Anyone else share this view?
Ste
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 17, 2009 17:10:47 GMT
Why this man was never a major success I will never know. Saw him many moons ago and concur with your thoughts. Maybe he wasn't "flavour of the month" or he needed to play his own music, is very much open to question. Very underrated but I'm glad he's still performing.
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Post by Aqualung55 on Dec 15, 2009 13:16:23 GMT
If you are on Facebook, try to join the page for fans of Shine, a French bunch who coaxed Terry into the studio this year. High time he was asked to support Tull again!
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 19, 2019 6:46:35 GMT
www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/should-have-been-british-rock-legend-terry-reid-plays-a-rare-chicago-show/Content?oid=69708714Should-have-been British rock legend Terry Reid plays a rare Chicago show By Steve Krakow April 18, 2019 Terry Reid with Railheart Thu 4/25, 8 PM, SPACE, 1245 Chicago Ave., Evanston, $18, all-ages“There are only three things happening in England,” Aretha Franklin was quoted as saying in 1968. “The Rolling Stones, the Beatles, and Terry Reid.” Few have had careers as simultaneously high-flying and underappreciated as Reid’s. One of rock’s greatest vocalists, he began singing as a teen with R&B bands, including Peter Jay & the Jaywalkers, who supported the Stones in 1966, leading Graham Nash to score them a record deal with Columbia. Reid then signed with pop Svengali Mickie Most (Donovan, Herman’s Hermits) for two solo albums and embarked on a U.S. tour with Cream in 1968. Things got really heavy when Jimmy Page famously asked Reid to join his band the New Yardbirds. Already committed to opening a Stones tour, Reid recommended a singer from the Band of Joy, whom he’d recently seen play: Robert Plant. He also put in a good word for the group’s drummer, John Bonham. The New Yardbirds became Led Zeppelin, and Reid returned to the road with Fleetwood Mac and Jethro Tull. He joined the Stones again on the tour that culminated in the disastrous Altamont show in 1969, though he missed that particular date. In 1969 Reid also turned down an offer to front Deep Purple, and in his own work he began to drift away from rock conventions—marking the beginning of what many consider his career peak. Reid’s third solo album, 1973’s River, sold poorly at the time but is now recognized as a genre-defying rural/psychedelic/jazz/folk/soul/Latin-tinged classic on par with Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks. His next LP, the Graham Nash-produced Seed of Memory, was on a similar plane, but ABC Records filed for bankruptcy the week it was released and the album ended up buried in time. Since then, the only new material Reid has released has been 1979’s soul-rockin’ Rogue Waves and 1991’s new-wave-influenced The Driver. His live appearances have been even more sporadic. The most recent time the 69-year-old Reid played Chicago was more than a decade ago—so if you want to see a true legend, who in some parallel universe is doubtless as big as the rock stars he’s been associated with, this might be your last chance.
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