Free Expression (UK, Psych / Blues Rock) - nieznane zespoły
Bliżej nieznana formacja z Keighley koło Bradford (West Yorkshire, UK), działająca od stycznia do grudnia 1970r. - w składzie :
- Ray Feather (lead vocals)
- Brian Whitfield (lead guitar, vocals)
- Terry Peaker (bass)
- Steve Hughes (guitar, vocals)
- Howard McDermot-Row (drums).
Jedyny (znany) utwór tego zespołu :
- "Nightmares" (1970),
znalazł się na drugim albumie wytwórni Transworld Records - V/A - "Samantha Promotions Volume Two"
1970, SPLP 102),
Planet, wersja CD - Wooden Hill).
McDermot-Row, Terry Peaker, Steve Hughes)
Suplement (18.03.2021)
Napisał do mnie Terry Peaker, przekazując bezcenne informacje o zespole.
"... The band was formed in early 1970 in Keighley near Bradford from 2 other local semi professional groups: The Progression (Ray,Howard and myself) who played in the style of Georgie Fame, Zoot Money etc and Wilson's Expression (the singers name not the Prime Minister's !) who played 50s rock'n'roll. Ray and I wanted to move to London to become professional so we formed the band to raise money for the move. All the guys in the band had good day jobs so they didn't want to move. The original singer , Howard Wilson, had left Wilson's Expression so we couldn't use the name and they still had lots of bar gigs in the diary which we took over. (about 6 gigs a week). We played a mixture of the 2 bands acts plus some of the new Psychedelic music that had just come out.
Steve saw an advertisment in Melody Maker (the music paper at the time) wanting bands for a new label called Transworld Records. They wanted to put out a sampler album (a very new idea after You Can All Join in had been an unexpected hit for Island Records. We passed the audition and was asked to write a song for the album (we only played covers) Shortly after this Wilson Expression's original drummer,Oz Garvey came back to Keighley with a songwriter friend called Jon King and asked me and Ray to form a band with them and move down to London,which we did. Free Expression lasted from Jan to Dec 1970. I've lost touch with all of the members of Free Expression (no computers in those days or emails/Mobile phones etc.)m although I did meet Howard Rowe again,by accident just before the Covid restrictions came in. He didn't even know that Nightmares has had 6 reissues...!!
Ray became a school teacher,Brian & Steve were both motor mechanics working for Ford and Howard was an engineer (he became a qualified glider pilot and now teaches it), I kept going as a musician and,oddly enough,joined Zoot Money's band for a while just before covid stopped all live music.
There is a book out called Bradford's Noise of the Valleys by Gary Cavanagh published by Bank House Books 2009 which has a chapter about us. It also covers Alan Holdsworth, Smokie, Juniors Eyes and New Model Army, Love Affair..all who had Bradford connections ... "
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