Formed by Mike
Bloomfield (the late lead guitarist of the Butterfield Blues
Band,
Bob Dylan's original guitar player and one time member of Electric
Flag) and includes Carmine Appice (whose drumming credits include
Vanilla Fudge, Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart and Black Sabbath) Rick Grech,
bassist of both Blind Faith and Ginger Bakers Air Force and Ray Kennedy - Sax, Vocals
Sail On Sailor (Wilson/Kennedy)
KGB were the supergroup of the supergroups, the creme de la creme, a mid
seventies collective featuring of the most impeccable musicians in the
UK and USA, they created a controversy, a mystique and a collectability
that has endured and grown for almost 30 years. Even today, rumours
persist that Grech's old mucker Stevie Winwood contributed anonymously
to the recordings although no one has ever confirmed this.(Rockasteria)
"Baby Should I Stay Or Go" (Bloomfield/Goldberg)
Both Bloomfield and Grech left KGB after the album's release, and the
group recorded another LP, "Motion", with replacement musicians before
disbanding. Bloomfield carried on through the 70s with a series of
under-achieving blues albums and film soundtracks while his health
declined, allegedly due to drug abuse. In November 1980.
Bloomfield joined Bob Dylan onstage in San Francisco for a popular
rendition of "Like A Rolling Stone", a song they had recorded together
for "Highway 61 Revisited". Three months later, on February 15. 1981,
Bloomfield, still in San Francisco, was found dead from a drug overdose.
He was buried in LA- ironically, a city he disliked - and Goldberg gave
the eulogy at the request of Bloomfield's family. Goldberg later
declared: "I say a memorial prayer when the anniversary of his passing
comes up. Not a day goes by when I don't think about him. He's still
very much alive inside of me."
by
Carol Clerk
