KGB (band)

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KGB was a short-lived American rock band , one of the late 1970s supergroups . The name is made up of the first letters of the three main actors, Ray Kennedy (vocals), Barry Goldberg (keyboards) and Mike Bloomfield (guitar); Goldberg and Bloomfield had previously played together on The Electric Flag .

The rhythm section included Ric Grech (bass, formerly Family , Blind Faith and Traffic ) and Carmine Appice (drums, formerly Vanilla Fudge , Beck, Bogert & Appice ).

The members of KGB (sometimes written as KGB ) received lucrative contracts from the MCA record company in 1975 to found a supergroup. The debut album, titled KGB (starring Appice, Grech, Goldberg, Bloomfield and Kennedy) was released in 1975, but flopped with both critics and buyers. The music magazine Sounds complained that the group lacks a musical community of interests. In 1976 the second album Motion appeared with Appice, Goldberg, Kennedy, Ben Schultz and Gregg Sutton. Mike Bloomfield refused to go to Los Angeles , where the recording was taking place; his contribution was recorded and mixed in in Sausalito . In an interview he made derogatory comments about the project, which came to an early end after 18 months.

Discography

  • 1975: KGB MCA 2166 # 124 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart
  • 1976: Motion MCA 2221

literature

  • Christian Graf, Uwe Wohlschläger: Rock Music Lexicon . Overseas: America, Australia, the Caribbean . Taurus Press Verlag popular music-literature, Hamburg, 1982. ISBN 3922542050