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- Subject: Re: WHO SINGS "CAN'T FIND MY WAY HOME?"
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- Date: 22 Nov 92 21:30:00 GMT
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- In article <gf0IGma00awVB27l0P@andrew.cmu.edu>, jk6z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Justin Richard Klemmer) writes...
- >Blind Faith did the original in I think 1968. Blind Faith was Eric
- >Clapton and Steve Winwood. Clapton plays it on his live collections too
- >so you get other versions of the song. I personally feel that the
- >original is so eerie and haunting that it puts the House of Lords'
- >version to shame.
- >
- >Jesse
- Blind Faith was a supergroup formed in 1969, consisting of Eric
- Clapton on guitar and Ginger Baker on drums, both from Cream, which
- had just broken up because of a bad review in Rolling Stone. Steve
- Winwood, a young piano player discovered by Clapton years earlier,
- did Gimme Some Lovin') played keyboards and sang all the songs on the
- who had played with the Spenser Davis Group (The one hit wonder that
- album. Steve Greco, a not-quite-as-famous bassist who had played with
- some progressive bands in the mid-to-late sixties rounded out the
- quartet.
- The first "Supergroup" did one album, entitled "Blind Faith",
- went on tour, but broke up shortly after because they were mainly
- based on hype that surrounds any group with such big names in it,
- and were expected to make the album and do the tour before the
- group could forge it's own identity.
- By the way, just Clapton and Winwood might make a good album,
- but give Ginger and Greco some credit. Ginger Baker was probably
- the greatest rock drummer of all time, even though he's now a
- drugged out loser, and Greco had some great basslines on the album.
-
- Mike Vago
- V059NRCG
- "Bill Clinton's favorite Beatle is Paul...at a time when America
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