Terry Reid
Eight months ago Terry Reid, guitarist and vocalist, got together with Keith Webb, drummer, and Eric Lease, organist, to play gigs in and around London. Last November with new organist, Peter Shelley, they made their debut in the States with the Cream at Madison Square Garden.
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All three are accomplished musicians, which is one thing they have going for them. Besides this, Terry is a great vocalist who can keep a set moving. Aretha Franklin has said he is one of the three things happening in London along with the Beatles and the Stones.
Percussion is by Keith Webb, who previously was with Donovan. Peter Shelley, who plays organ, keyboard bass, and violin, played with Los Bravos and Arthur Brown before joining the group.
Nineteen-year-old Terry, self-taught at guitar, piano and recorder, left home four years ago to play with Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers. He also writes much of their material.
Their first album Bang Bang You’re Terry Reid, produced by Mickie Most, is good but could have been better. The title cut, Bang Bang, (My Baby Shot Me Down), is a great reproduction of old Sonny Bono material. Also, on the album is Eddie Cochran’s Summertime Blues, and Donovan’s Season of the Witch, both are done professionally, far surpassing any Blue Cheer garbage. The other seven cuts on the LP are originals-, the-best being Without Expression, Tinker Taylor, and Writing On The Wall. All in all, the LP is good, not great.
After a fairly successful American tour, which included two weekends at Detroit’s own Grande Ballroom, the group is back in England working on their new album. Playing here with the Airplane and the Dukes, all their sets were tight holding the attention of a stoned-out Grande crowd.
Their live sets here, at the Fillmores, and at the Miami Pop Festival show what a diversified group these three Englishmen have formed. Blues or rock, they can do it. That’s what they started out to be, and that’s just what they are.
