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4 unusual facts about Ric Grech


Ric Grech

Grech remained active in session work, playing with Rod Stewart, Ronnie Lane, Vivian Stanshall and Muddy Waters.

As in Family, Grech lasted two albums with Traffic — Welcome to the Canteen and The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys.

Grech agreed to go on the tour until Family could replace him, but he proved to be unreliable when Family played their first American show on April 8, 1969 at the Fillmore East in New York, being so disoriented he could barely play.

In 1973 RSO Records released the only album under his own name, credited to 'Rick' Grech.


Eddie Harris

From 1970 to 1975, he experimented with new instruments of his own invention (the reed trumpet was a trumpet with a saxophone mouthpiece, the saxobone was a saxophone with a trombone mouthpiece, and the guitorgan was a combination of guitar and organ), with singing the blues, with jazz-rock (he recorded an album with Steve Winwood, Jeff Beck, Albert Lee, Ric Grech, Zoot Money, Ian Paice and other rockers).


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