Blind Faith is a British blues rock band, composed of Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood, and Ric Grech. The band, which was one of the first super group, released their only album, Blind Faith, in August 1969. They are very similar to the bands where Winwood, Baker, and Clapton recently this participates, Traffic and Cream. They helped pioneer the blues/rock fusion genre.
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The beginning of the Blind Faith began in mid-1968, with the breaking of Cream. Today regarded as the first true super group, Cream has become a financial center, selling millions of recordings in a few years and bringing international popularity to the group and every individual member. Despite that success, the band collapsed from within because of frequent animosity between Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, with Eric Clapton doing his best to mediate. In addition, Clapton is tired of playing a commercially driven blues and hopes to move forward with a new, experimental, less rigorous approach in this genre.
Steve Winwood faced similar problems at The Spencer Davis Group, where he became the lead vocalist for three years. Winwood wanted to experiment with the sound of the band by incorporating jazz elements, but went on because of the musical differences, instead forming a new band - Traffic - in 1967. The band split temporarily in 1969, and Winwood started jamming with his best friend Clapton in Clapton's basement in Surrey, UK. Winwood and Clapton previously collaborated on the Powerhouse project.
Clapton was happy with the jam session, but hesitated to start a serious group. Ginger Baker reappeared one day to sit with them in 1969, and the band took shape almost to the end. Clapton questioned Baker in the band, because he promised Jack Bruce, if they worked together again, the three of them would play. In addition, Clapton did not want to reunite with Cream almost nine weeks after the breakup, and also did not want to deal with other super-star "like-Cream" situations. Winwood eventually persuaded Clapton to complete Baker's inclusion in the line-up, arguing that Ginger Baker reinforced their musical skills and that it would be difficult to find a talented drummer alike.
In May 1969, Ric Grech, a bassist with Family, was invited to join them (leaving the Family in the middle of the tour).
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Debuts and tours
The news of forming the group created a rumor of excitement among the public and the press, who even heralded the band as "Super Cream". The group debuted at a free concert at London's Hyde Park on June 7, 1969. The show was well received by the fans there, but the troubled Clapton, who thought that the band played below par and that the praise was unfeasible and reminiscent on the Cream. the days when the crowds will clap for almost anything. Clapton, knowing the band has not had enough training and is not ready, is reluctant to tour and is afraid that the band will evolve into Cream's repetition.
Since Steve Winwood signed a contract with Island Records, he must be "rented" to Polydor Records (to whom Clapton and Baker signed in the UK). Perhaps as part of this deal, a single promotion was released by the Island, though the promotion was for the Island itself. It was an announcement of the fact that they moved their offices. Titled "Change of Address From June 23, 1969", a one-sided promo featured instrumental jam by groups not mentioned on the label (the only other label info is the new address, phone number, and new Island cable address). Recorded at the Olympics, probably between March and May 1969, it was estimated that about 500 single copies were pressed, mostly sent to British disc jockeys and people in other music industries. The song was finally released extensively when it appeared as a bonus song on two CD "Deluxe Edition" from Blind Faith album in 2000 (entitled "Change Of Address Jam").
Their album recordings continued, followed by a short tour of Scandinavia, where the band played a small show and were able to train their voices and prepare it for a larger audience in the US and UK. After Scandinavia, the band toured the United States, debuting at Madison Square Garden on July 12 before more than 20,000. The band toured for seven weeks in the US, completing their tour in Hawaii on August 24, 1969.
The main problem with the tour was that the band only had a few songs in their catalog - barely enough to fill an hour. They were forced to play old Cream and Traffic songs, to please the crowd who usually preferred their older and popular material to their new Blind Faith material. Clapton is now exactly where he does not want to be - stuck in "super creams" that cause unrest during their live performances. They play the same material from their days in Cream, to calm the audience and fill the void left by the lack of adequate new material.
Unlock action for band including Free bands, Taste and R & amp; B-rock based acts are called Delaney & amp; Bonnie. Because Clapton likes blues Delaney & amp; Bonnie, he started spending most of his time with them, not Blind Faith, letting Winwood take on a more prominent role in the band. Clapton even started to sit in their opening sets, sometimes just playing percussion, and showed more interest in them than the bands themselves. Baker has since said it is clear that Clapton will leave the band as soon as the tour is over.
The album release and controversy
After its release in July 1969, Blind Faith topped the UK chart and Billboard chart for Pop Albums in the US, reaching its peak in No. 1. 40 on Black Chart album - an impressive feat for the British rock quartet. The album sold over half a million copies in its first month of release and was a major profit-generating device for both Atlantic Records (on their Atco label in the US) and for Clapton and Baker (Blind Faith's sales helped to stimulate demand for Cream's album, also distributed by Atco).
The release of the album sparked controversy because its cover featured a topless publish girl, holding in her hand a silver space vessel designed by Mick Milligan, a jeweler at the Royal College of Art. Some people regard the ship as a symbol of phallus. A silver spacecraft, or very similar, ornament hood from Chevrolet 1955. US record company issued it with an alternative cover with a photo band on the front. In the UK, alternative covers are also published along with the first, thin cover and laminate with the back and front that are consistent with the inside of the foldout version. The original record number on the alternative cover is the same but ends with "B" (583 059B). The record is the same and, since it's only issued for a short time, it always has both matrix and maternal numbers.
Cover art was created by photographer Bob Seidemann, a personal friend and former Clapton flat friend, known primarily for photographs of Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead. Rumors about the girl's relationship with the band sparked controversy; among them is that he is Baker's illegitimate son, and that he is a groupie who is kept as slaves by band members. In fact, the young girl was a suburb of London, filed with her parents' consent and for a fee, as described in Seidemann's mini essay on the origins of the album cover art of Blind Faith .
The cover is not named - just a wrapping paper that tells the buyer who the artist is and the name of the album. Although originally banned in some countries, original artwork is quite popular and can be billed. It is also available in the 1970s on RSO labels around the world. Under a license agreement during the mid-1980s, Blind Faith's album was remastered into high-definition phonographs and gold by the Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab. During 2000 the entire album remastered and was re-released as a deluxe two-CD edition release from Polydor which included an alternate, out-takes and studio rehearsal version of band music made during the early months of 1969.
Dissolution and separate paths
After the tour finished in August, the band returned to the UK surrounded by rumors of a farewell or possible UK tour. In October, the band has effectively dissolved within a year of its creation, and it does not result in other studios or live albums - although some of the band's live songs can be found on retrospective albums of 1995 Steve Winwood The Finer Things Blind Faith - Deluxe Edition mentioned above.
After that, Clapton stepped out of the spotlight, first to sit down with Plastic Ono Band and then tour as a sideman for Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, with whom she became a good friend during the US tour. This frees him from the limelight that he has considered an outbreak for both Blind Cream and Faith. After the next task, he took some members from Delaney & amp; Bonnie formed a new super group, Derek and Dominos. Clapton never dropped Blind Faith's full repertoire, because "God's Presence" and "Can not Find My Way Home" have been done occasionally throughout his solo career.
Unlike Clapton, Ginger Baker has enjoyed his Blind Faith experience and strives to run the band in the form of Ginger Baker Air Force with Grech and Winwood. After several shows together, Winwood goes with Grech and goes to Island Records to reunite and reform Traffic (Grech is featured on the bass on The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood both appeared in the film Blues Brothers 2000 .
Clapton and Winwood will look good on their work in the band and show some Blind Faith songs in Clapton ( Crossroads ) and Winwood's collection and catalog.
Clapton and Winwood Reunions
In July 2007, Clapton and Winwood reunited for the show during the second Crossroads Guitar Festival held at Toyota Park Center of Bridgeview (Illinois), where the duo featured a number of Blind Faith songs as part of their tracks. The performance inspired the two to perform three reunion concerts at Madison Square Garden that took place on 25, 26 and 28 February 2008. It was not an official Blind Faith reunion; not "Winwood and Clapton". They performed four songs on the first side of Blind Faith and options from Traffic, Derek and Dominos, Clapton's solo career and several covers. Their band consists of Willie Weeks on bass, Ian Thomas on drums and Chris Stainton on keyboards. DVD and 2 CD discs from the show was released in 2009.
On June 10, 2009, Winwood and Clapton embarked on a 14-date United States summer tour at the Izod Center in New Jersey. Their backing bands are similar to those in Madison Square Garden, with Ian Thomas being replaced by Abe Laboriel Jr. and backing vocalists Michelle John and Sharon White added. Former Blind Faith bands run their third European tour from May 18 to June 13, 2010 with drummer Steve Gadd.
Winwood and Clapton meet again for a series of five concerts at Royal Albert Hall London from 26 May to 1 June 2011. Blind Faith members then perform on a 15-day tour in Japan from November 17th to December 10th, 2011.
Members
- Steve Winwood - main vocal, organ, bass, guitar, piano, keyboard, harmonica
- Eric Clapton - guitar, vocals
- Ric Grech - bass, violin, vocals on "Do What You Like"
- Ginger Baker - percussion, drums, vocals on "Do What You Like" Discussion
- Blind Faith August 1969 No.Ã,1 (US) (Platinum), September 1969 No.Ã,1 (English) (Gold), No.1 (Canada).
- London Hyde Park 1969
- The Blind Faith Story - from the Official Ginger Baker Archive
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Blind Faith on Billboard (North America):
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