I think most people would say that there's a few people in their lives that they think were key in a way. I'm curious about how you ended up in the Rod Stewart circle. And, Mick, my guitar player, picked my bass up and I sat on the B-3. He took our guitar player's guitar, played it backwards - it still sounded great - and used the mic stand to slide against the neck, that kind of a slide guitar sort of thing. Then Chas brought him down and he overdubbed on a record we were making called "Amen," an old Impressions song, but nobody knows what happened to the acetate.Īnd you ran into Hendrix again when you were in Sam Gopal's Dream, right? I knew Mitch Mitchell, the drummer, but at that point, I didn't know anything about the Experience down the line, he was just a guy I met. Unassuming wasn't egotistical or anything, at that point. He played guitar with Little Richard, but I had no idea he was as good as he was. We had a long talk for about an hour, just sitting there talking and chatting. Just wore jeans, none of the really fancy clothing that he wore later on. I was over there just hanging out in the kitchen and Chas walks in with this guy. A couple of guys were staying at Eric Burdon's house from the Animals, in London. We played Motown, Impressions, that sort of thing, I was playing keys for those guys. Yeah, that was actually the second band I played with, Fleur de Lys. Do you remember your first impression of him? Just at that point in my life, I was just living in this sort of dreamlike state and playing rock 'n' roll.Īt one point in those early days, you wound up playing with Jimi Hendrix. I'm not without being nervous about things. Nerves, of course, at different times in my career have played a factor. You're just young and arrogant, and you're out there and you're just doing it. It's what I was doing then: I was out on the road playing. You just sort of take it as it comes, you know? I mean, it was amazing. I was in this sort of dreamlike state the whole time.
ROD STEWART NEVER A DULL MOMENT YOUTUBE PROFESSIONAL
One of your first professional recording experiences, when you were still a teenager, was at none other than Abbey Road Studios, which was then called EMI Studios. Sears spoke with UCR from his home in California, where he continues to play and record in rock bands like Moonalice, whose new single, " Let's Get Funky," is out now, and the David Nelson Band. He joined Hot Tuna, the more blues-based Jefferson Airplane offshoot, and recorded a handful of albums with them. Along the way, Sears rubbed shoulders with a host of legends, including Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, Ike and Tina Turner, Neal Schon, John Lee Hooker, Betty Davis and more. From the electric blue fur coat David Bowie wore when he first arrived in America in February to Bianca’s neckline when she married Mick Jagger in Saint-Tropez in May, from the death of Jim Morrison in Paris in July to the reemergence of Bob Dylan at Madison Square Garden in August, from the soft launch of Carole King’s Tapestry in California in February to the sensational arrival of Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway To Heaven” in London in November, Hepworth’s forensic sweep takes in all the people, places and events that helped make 1971 rock’s unrepeatable year.A few years later, he'd become well connected in the industry, appearing on four Rod Stewart albums between 1970-74 – a run that included the incredibly successful hit, " Maggie May." Sears then helped form Jefferson Starship, whom he continued to play with until 1987.
There’s a story behind every note of that music. In this entertaining and provocative book, he argues that 1971 saw an unrepeatable surge of musical creativity, technological innovation, naked ambition and outrageous good fortune that combined to produce music that still crackles with relevance today. David Hepworth was twenty-one in 1971, and has been writing and broadcasting about music ever since.
The new releases of that hectic year?Don McLean’s “American Pie,” Sly Stone’s “Family Affair,” Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On,” Joni Mitchell’s “Blue,” Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway To Heaven,” the Who’s “Baba O’Riley,” and many others?are the standards of today. 1971 started the following day and with it the rock era.
You might say this was the last day of the pop era. On New Year’s Eve 1970 Paul McCartney instructed his lawyers to issue the writ at the High Court in London that effectively ended the Beatles. A rollicking look at 1971, rock’s golden year, the year that saw the release of the indelible recordings of Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, the Who, Rod Stewart, Carole King, the Rolling Stones, and others and produced more classics than any other year in rock history The Sixties ended a year late.
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