The Electric Flag

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The Electric Flag
General information
Genre (s) Blues rock , jazz rock
founding 1967
resolution 1974
Founding members
Mike Bloomfield
Nick Gravenites
Guitar, bass
Harvey Brooks
Singing, drums ,
percussion
 Buddy Miles
Barry Goldberg
Keyboard, saxophone
Herbie Rich
saxophone
 Peter Strazza
Trumpet , percussion
 Marcus Doubleday
Last occupation
Guitar, percussion
 Mike Bloomfield
singing
 Nick Gravenites
bass
 Roger Troy
Singing, drums,
percussion
 Buddy Miles
Keyboard
 Barry Goldberg
former members
guitar
 Hoshal Wright
Keyboard
 John Simon
Vocals, saxophone
 Harold Hunter
Bass, saxophone
 Virgil Gonsalves
saxophone
 Terry Clements

The Electric Flag was an American rock band founded in 1967 by Mike Bloomfield to combine blues , rock , soul , country and jazz . For his project he was able to win Nick Gravenites, Barry Goldberg, Peter Strazza, Buddy Miles, Harvey Brooks, Marcus Doubleday and Herbie Rich. Except for Rich, all the musicians had already gained experience with other well-known performers: Bloomfield and Gravenites came from Paul Butterfield , Goldberg and Strazza had worked with Steve Miller . Miles was a well-known soul drummer, Brooks had proven himself with various folk interpreters and Doubleday could be heard on recordings by the Drifters , Jan and Dean and Bobby Vinton , for example .

The band first played in 1967 at the Monterey Pop Festival . In the same year the group recorded the soundtrack for the film The Trip by Roger Corman . In April 1968 their first regular album A Long Time Comin 'was released , which was characterized by unusual brass arrangements. A short time later Bloomfield got out, soon followed by Goldberg and Strazza. For them, John Simon from Big Brother and the Holding Company , Terry Clements, Hoshal Wright, Virgil Gonsalves and Harold Hunter joined the group. Also in 1968 the little successful album The Electric Flag was released , on which a loud and aggressive soul rock could be heard. In the winter of 1968/1969 the band separated. The band's song Flash, Bam, Pow appeared in the film Easy Rider , but was not released with the film's soundtrack .

In 1972 Bloomfield, Miles, Gravenites and Goldberg arranged a reunion for The Electric Flag. Roger Troy joined as the new bass player. The resulting album The Band Kept Playing received bad reviews and the band separated again. In retrospect, the album Groovin 'Is Easy was released with previously unreleased recordings.

Discography

  • The Trip (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1967; Sidewalk)
  • A Long Time Comin ' (1968; Columbia)
  • The Electric Flag: An American Music Band (1968; Columbia)
  • The Band Kept Playing (1974; Atlantic)
  • Groovin 'Is Easy (1983; Thunderbolt)

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