MIGHTY BABY "HEAD" Martin Stone w/ BEAUTIFUL Cvr/Vinyl

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A BEAUTIFUL British Blues/Psyche COLLECTIBLE

COVER & VINYL are BEAUTIFUL

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GREATEST & MOST INFLUENTIAL BRITISH GUITAR PLAYERS WHO EVER LIVED:

MARTIN STONE

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MIGHTY BABY

CONDITION:

VINYL: VG+

VISUAL INSPECTION ONLY UNDER BRIGHT LIGHT & SUNLIGHT

VISUALLY BEAUTIFUL VINYL THAT SHINES WITH A GLOSS

AND BEAUTIFUL SHEEN

(ONLY A COUPLE OF HAIRLINE SCRATCHES & FAINT PAPER SCUFFS)

SOME IDIOT (me) WROTE HIS NAME ON THE SIDE ONE LABEL in BLACK SHARPIE

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COVER - INSIDE and OUT: VG+

COLOURS SO PURE & BRIGHT THEY JUMP OFF THE GATEFOLD SLEEVE

SOME IDIOT (me) WROTE HIS NAME ON THE BACK COVER in BLACK SHARPIE

Mighty Baby were formed in 1968 from the ashes of The Action. They released two albums, Mighty Baby (which appeared in December 1969, but had been recorded a year earlier) and A Jug Of Love (October 1971). Their debut, a collection of psychedelic rock, appeared on the tiny Head record label in the UK, and on Chess in the United States. Over the course of 1970 several members of the band became Muslims (adherents of the Sufi order), and their second album reflected the spiritual journey they had embarked on, sounding little like its predecessor. They were the closing act on the first day of the Isle of Wight Festival 1970. It has been said that it was a meeting between Richard Thompson and the band that introduced Richard and Linda Thompson to the Sufi order.[1] It has notable guitar parts from Martin Stone.

As well as gigging regularly, the band also played many sessions for others, including Robin Scott (Woman From the Warm Grass), Andy Roberts, Keith Christmas (Stimulus and Fable Of The Wings), Shelagh McDonald, Sandy Denny, Gary Farr (Take Something with You, Strange Fruit).

Mike Evans, Ace, from 'Ace the bass' died 15th January 2010 in London. He was buried at Woodland Burial Park near Beaconsfield.

The British psychedelic band Mighty Baby grew out of the Action, the Liverpool-based R&B outfit signed to Parlophone by George Martin in 1965.

Long considered one of Martin's best discoveries this side of the Beatles, the Action consisted of Reggie King (vocals), Alan King (guitar), Pete Watson (guitar), Mike Evans (bass), and Roger Powell (drums). After Watson left in 1967, he was succeeded by keyboardist Ian Whiteman and blues guitarist Martin Stone, a veteran of the Savoy Brown Blues Band. This new lineup evolved beyond the R&B/soul sound that the original Action had played and into a top-flight experimental group, incorporating the kinds of long jams and folk/blues influences that the West Coast bands were starting to export around the world.

They hooked up with ex-Yardbirds manager Giorgio Gomelsky in 1967 and recorded an album's worth of material that went unreleased. Reggie King was gone by early 1968 to record a solo album, and the remaining members went through a number of name changes, at one point calling themselves Azoth. In 1968, they hooked up with the managers who represented Pink Floyd and T. Rex and cut a new series of demo recordings featuring Whiteman (who wrote most of the songs) and Alan King on lead vocals. These demos were even more ambitious than the 1967 sides, extending the structure of the group's songs with long, beautiful guitar progressions and soaring choruses. Unlike a lot of R&B outfits that tried the psychedelic route and failed, they were suited to the new music by inclination and temperament.

The president of the band's new record label, Head Records, for reasons best known to himself, chose "Mighty Baby" as the group's new name. The self-titled album that followed was a masterpiece of late psychedelic rock, with long, fluid guitar lines and radiant harmonies; still, Mighty Baby didn't sell very well, although the group continued to play live shows to enthusiastic audiences. Their record label folded in 1970, and the group eventually signed to the Blue Horizon label, where they released a respectable if not wholly successful second album, A Jug of Love. It was clear by then, however, that their moment had passed, both personally and professionally. Mighty Baby broke up in 1971, although several of the members periodically played together on various projects -- Evans and Whiteman even played back-up to Richard and Linda Thompson in the late 1970's. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide

Contents

• 1 Discography
• 2 Band members
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Discography

• Action Speak Louder Than ... (1968 recordings of The Action already in Mighty Baby line-up, released in 1985)
• Mighty Baby (album, Head Records, 1969)
• "Devil's Whisper" b/w "Virgin Spring" (single, Blue Horizon 2096-003, October 1971)
• A Jug of Love (album, Blue Horizon 2931-001, October 1971)
• Glastonbury Fayre - various artists: one song: "A Blanket In My Muesli" (Revelation 1/2/3, triple album, April 1972, live recordings from Glastonbury 1971)
• Live In The Attic (Rolled Gold Productions, December 2000)

With Reg King

• Reg King (album, United Artists Records 29157, 1971)

Band members

• Alan 'Bam' King - vocals, guitar (born 18 September 1945, in Muswell Hill, North London).
• Martin Stone - guitar (born 11 December 1946, in Woking, Surrey).
• Ian Whiteman - piano (born 18 May 1945, in Saffron Walden, Essex).
• Mike 'Ace' Evans - bass guitar (born Michael Evans, 10 July 1945, in Henley, Berkshire).
• Roger Powell - drums (born 4 July 1944, in Camden Town, North West, London).

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