Martin Stone, RIP

[yoyiceu]

The wonderful guitar player that played alongside Kim Simmonds in the first Savoy Brown album, and later was part of the wonderful Mighty Baby and several other bands in the Seventies, died last week. He had a very amusing life, from what I've read: there's an old Ptolemaic Terrascope interview online (from 1995) where he recounts leaving the music scene in the early Seventies after converting to Islam and going on a religious escapade abour a donkey to Timbuktu... "God, I hated that donkey!", he related. Afterwards, although he never abandoned music -there are recent videos of him in a club accompaning former Savoy Brown vocalist Chris Youlden- he became knowns as one of the best and most celebrated "book runners" in England.
Here's a link...
https://greatwen.com/2016/11/10/rip-martin-sstone.jpgone-guitarist-bookseller-hustler/

[Steve F.]

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There are recent videos of Chris Youlden??

I was a big fan of Chris'...

[rcarlberg]

There are recent videos of Chris Youlden??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7jcjBeZzL4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxPsEW8Z2s8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUJZKaXPfls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndoaMptfn8A

[yoyiceu]

Stone backing Youlden, from 2011

[yoyiceu]

[Scrotum Scissor]

Egyptian Tomb, otherwise known as the s/t Mighty Baby record, is IMO a stone cold UK underground rock classic. When recorded in 1968 (only released a year afterwards), they and the very early Man were practically the only two bands in Britain following the path of US Westcoast psychedelia. Very, very few outside of the US Westcoast did anything even half as great as that MBaby debut. The followup, Jug of Love, is far more rootsy (and indicative of the ensuing pubrock scene), but still a solid singer-songwriter's album.

Stone was a fine guitarist, and those tunes still stay with me.

[spellbound]

Rest in peace.

[spacefreak]

A great and extremely tasteful player that should have made it big. Sadly, this hadn't been the case.

RIP.

[rapidfirerob]

Never heard of him. I have early SB albums, but not the first. Sorry to hear this.


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[spacefreak]

I forgot to mention that before joining Savoy Brown he was in Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers with Philip Charles Lithman (Snakefinger of Residents fame). They reformed the band at the demise of Mighty Baby and went-off to record two albums under than name during the period 1970-1974; the first one being a duo affair.

[Scrotum Scissor]

^I'd completely forgotten about his coop with Snake, Spyros - so thx for the heads up.