Blind Faith
| Blind Faith | |
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.jpg) Blind Faith (1970): Steve Winwood, Ric Grech, Ginger Baker & Eric Clapton |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Rock , blues rock |
| founding | 1969 |
| resolution | 1969 |
| Website | angelfire.com/wi/blindfaith |
| Last occupation | |
guitar |
Eric Clapton |
Drums |
Ginger Baker († 2019) |
Keyboard instruments and vocals |
Steve Winwood |
Bass and violin |
Ric Grech († 1990) |
Blind Faith was a British supergroup consisting of Eric Clapton ( guitar ), Ginger Baker ( drums ), Steve Winwood ( keyboard instruments and vocals ) and Ric Grech ( bass , violin ), founded by Robert Stigwood and Chris Blackwell .
Band history
Blind Faith was founded in London in spring 1969. Clapton and Baker had previously played together in Cream , Winwood came from Traffic and Grech from Family . On June 7, 1969, Blind Faith gave the first concert in London's Hyde Park in front of over 100,000 visitors, which was expressly admission-free at their own request . In the same year Blind Faith released their only album named after the band, of which 400,000 copies were sold in the first week of sales. This was followed by tours in Scandinavia and America , with Free and Delaney & Bonnie serving as opening acts. Despite the success of the album and tour, there were tensions within the band, as the musical ideas of the four band members could not be brought to a common denominator in the long term. Blind Faith was dissolved as early as September 1969; shortly afterwards, the individual band members started new music projects in which they could better implement their solo leadership claims.
album
The band's only award-winning album, Blind Faith (August 1969), features an 11-year-old girl with a bare torso on the cover , which caused quite a stir. Instead, a neutral photo of the band was used for the cover of the American edition.
The original version of the album has only six pieces of music, five of which are original compositions. More than half of the pieces came from the pen of Winwood, who technically built up the timbre of rock chamber music by means of feedback, clusters and idiosyncratic melody structures . The sixth track (track 3 on the CD) is a cover version of the Buddy Holly classic Well ... All Right , which is characterized by an extraordinary coda in the form of a blues-rock- oriented piano solo by Steve Winwood. Also outstanding is the 15-minute Do What You Like , characterized by multi-layered offbeat rhythm in five-quarter time , with a difficult drum solo by Ginger Baker.
In 2001 an extended De Luxe Edition of the album was released, which in addition to outtakes also contains four jams of around 15 minutes each. Further outtakes and recordings of various concerts were also released as bootlegs .
The album reached number 1 in both Great Britain and the USA and stayed in the US charts for 37 weeks in the top 100. In Germany, the album made it to number 5 on the album charts. In the rock music scene, due to the successful synthesis of blues, rock and pop, it is still considered a milestone in progressive British blues-rock. The album was produced by Jimmy Miller .
Sales figures
| Country / Association | Certification | Sales | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|
 United States ( RIAA )
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platinum | 1,000,000+ |
Web links
- Blind Faith at Allmusic (English)
- Blind Faith
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Barry Graves , Siegfried Schmidt-Joos, Bernward Halbscheffel: Rock Lexicon . One-time special edition. Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2003, Volume 1, p. 115
- ↑ chartsurfer.de
- ^ RIAA - Gold & Platinum Searchable Database riaa.com