Badger

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The first ’70s marked the heyday of progressive rock — it appeared like each and every time you turned around and everywhere you appeared, there have been top-flight bands like Yes, King Crimson, ELP, Pink Floyd, the Moody Blues, et al., throughout, and their emulators and less rivals spreading away so far as the attention could find. Badger was section of that entire picture, a Yes offshoot group that got signed with the same label. Officially, the group’s roots get back to 1972 and Tony Kaye’s departure from Display, the group he’d co-founded along with his fellow ex-Yes alumni, guitarist Peter Banking institutions. Kaye was a virtuoso who preferred more traditional musical instruments like the Hammond body organ over the newer Moog synthesizer (not really that he didn’t play the last mentioned, but he utilized the body organ even more prominently), and who acquired the bad lot of money to have already been been successful in Yes with the very much flashier Rick Wakeman. This time around out, he would come up with his own intensifying rock supergroup, on the firmer footing than Display (whose work acquired sometimes strayed as well near that of Yes). The ex-Yes key pad player known as on his longtime friend David Foster, who acquired were able to skirt the orbit of Yes many times without ever getting asked into that lineup (partly because his device was the bass, and Yes was extremely well covered for the reason that section by Chris Squire). Foster have been a member from the Warriors, Yes business lead vocalist Jon Anderson’s middle-’60s group, and acquired co-authored music with Anderson on Yes’ second record, Period and a Term. Kaye experienced ended up dealing with Foster on that which was ultimately to become an unreleased Foster recording — when Kaye quit Yes in 1971, he in the beginning joined Banking institutions in founding Adobe flash, but after his leave from your second option, Kaye and Foster made a decision to finally make the leap. They recruited drummer Roy Dyke, recently an associate of Family members and, before that, Ashton, Gardner & Dyke — he was a Liverpool veteran whose profession returned to the first ’60s as well as the Remo 4 and Brian Epstein protégé Tommy Quickly, and experienced played using one strike solitary, Ashton, Gardner & Dyke’s “Resurrection Shuffle”; he, subsequently, steered the organizers to Brian Parrish, an ex-member of Medication Mind and Three Guy Army, who experienced used Paul Gurvitz and Mike Kellie within an clothing known as Parrish & Gurvitz, who’d slice one LP for Regal Zonophone. The quartet, christened Badger, in shape together flawlessly, and after some rehearsals started creating a name for itself on the European tour starting for Dark Sabbath. The music group was authorized by Atlantic Information, which already experienced Yes and noticed Badger as possibly offering another band of exactly the same caliber. When it arrived time and energy to record an recording, however, it had been decided that nothing at all they tried within the studio room was recording the strength and participation they confirmed on-stage, and a live record was the ultimate way to present Badger. A present on the Rainbow Theater, opening for the today well-established Yes, was documented, made by Jon Anderson and Geoffrey Haslam. One Live Badger do rather better in European countries than it do in the us, though it got solid reviews everywhere. Probably if it acquired turn out at another period — rather than within the same period that the initial wave of intensifying rock and roll albums from ELP’s Manticore label had been released, with plenty of promotion and marketing support — it might’ve performed better, and an individual might’ve been a help (also Yes acquired needed “Roundabout” to discover a mass market). By 1974, Badger was decreased to Kaye and Dyke, who reconstructed the group along relatively different lines by adding Paul Pilnick, past due of Stealers Steering wheel, on business lead electric guitar, Kim Gardner (of Ashton, Gardner & Dyke) on bass, and ex-Apple alumnus Jackie Lomax on vocals. Essentially, it became Lomax’s group, and he forced the band from intensifying rock and roll and into spirit in a significant method; Badger’s second recording, White Woman, was composed entirely of tunes co-authored by Lomax, and stated in New Orleans at Allen Toussaint’s studio room. The switch in direction could have been hard enough to accomplish under the greatest of circumstances, but balance wasn’t among Badger’s long fits at this day — the group experienced split before White Woman was even released, leaving bewildered followers of both aged sound and not used to ponder what experienced just occurred. Pilnick later came back towards the orbit of Stealers Wheel’s Joe Egan and Parrish continued to cut a single recording, while Lomax authorized with Capitol for just two single albums and Dyke approved through rings behind Pat Travers and jazz veteran Chris Barber. Tony Kaye was an associate of Detective and later on approved through a re-formed edition of Badfinger before re-emerging with Yes within the 1980s, and also surely got to sing just a little in the Union record. Finally, 25 % century after it had been documented, One Live Badger was re-released on Compact disc by Repertoire Information, within that label’s re-examination of the greatest intensifying rock from the 1970s.

Quick Facts

Full Name Badger

Height Honey badger: 23 – 28 cm

IMDB http://imdb.com/name/nm2804503

Allmusic http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000078361

Music Songs It's A Glorious Day, White Lady, A Dream of You, Motorcar, I Tell You What You Wanna Hear, Push a little Harder, Lord Who Give Me Life, Summer Sweeps, Inside Out, Headlock End, I'm Alive again, Plastic Money, On the Way Home, Just the Way It Goes, Everybody-Nobody, The Hole Thing, One More Dream to Hold, Lie, Future USA, Elizabeth, Midnight Madness, We're Still Connected, Tonight, You Move, All I Need, Goodnight All Right, Zero Point, Badgers Rest, Ringo Starr, Every Other Sunday, Polyester, She's A Woman Now

Albums One Live Badger, White Lady, C'mon Girls!, Every Other Sunday, Fierce Rock 'n' Roll, That Gurl EP, Faster Days

#	Fact
1	He performed improv at Amsterdam's famous comedy theater, Boom Chicago.

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Layover	2017	post-production	Craig
Austin Found	2017	completed	Matt
Pig Goat Banana Cricket	2015-2017	TV Series	Pig / He So Crazy Squirrel / Serling Pig / ...
Dimension 404	2017	TV Series	Greg
A Bad Idea Gone Wrong	2017		Marlon
Mom	2013-2016	TV Series	Baxter
The Late Bloomer	2016		Max
Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh	2016	TV Series	Kyle
Sanjay and Craig	2013-2016	TV Series	Hector Flanagan
The Night Is Young	2015/I		Matt
Wallykazam!	2015	TV Series	Zack
NCIS	2011-2015	TV Series	NCIS Probationary Agent Ned Dorneget Agent Ned Dorneget
Mojave	2015		Insane Doorman
Impress Me	2015	TV Series	Matt Jones
Home	2015/II		Kyle (voice)
Adventure Time	2010-2015	TV Series	King Huge / Mountain Man / Marauder #5 / ...
Comedy Bang! Bang!	2015	TV Series	Shiloh Huffington
Beef	2014	TV Series	Gill (2014)
A Merry Friggin' Christmas	2014		Cowboy Dick
Planes: Fire & Rescue	2014		Drip (voice)
Beware the Batman	2013-2014	TV Series	Humpty Dumpty / Humphrey Dumpler
Broad City	2014	TV Series	Creepy DJ #1
Cooties	2014		Sheriff Dave
Deadman	2013	TV Series	Deadman / Raven / Girl on Date / ...
Breaking Bad	2008-2013	TV Series	Badger
NTSF:SD:SUV	2013	TV Series	Tavis Cose
Documentary Subject Wanted with Rory Scovel	2013	Short
The Office	2013	TV Series	Zeke
Loveseat	2013	Short	Joe
The Farm	2013	TV Movie	Zeke
Hawaii Five-0	2013	TV Series	Bullwinkle
TRON: Uprising	2012-2013	TV Series	Lenz
Fireflies	2013/I		Elroy
The Cleveland Show	2012	TV Series	Wheelchair Kid
Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil	2010-2012	TV Series	Gunther
Peter at the End	2012	Short	Jake (as Matt L. Jones)
Dirty Work	2012	TV Series	Hummy
CSI: NY	2012	TV Series	Steve Blanton
Dream World	2012		Ben Garvin
Key and Peele	2012	TV Series	Weed Guy
Rebounding	2012	TV Movie	Eli Kaplan (as Matt L. Jones)
Man Up	2011	TV Series	Chris 'Eggnog' Eggert
Rage	2011	Video Game	Gabe (voice, as Matt L. Jones)
Worst. Prom. Ever.	2011	TV Movie	Kyle (uncredited)
High Road	2011		Richie (as Matt L. Jones)
Red State	2011		Deputy Pete
Happy Place	2011	Video short	Lyle (as Matt L. Jones)
Perfectly Prudence	2011	TV Movie	Nigel
Long Story Short	2010	Short	Marshall (as Matt L. Jones)
Uncle Nigel	2010	TV Movie	Ronnie Wells (as Matt L. Jones)
NCIS: Los Angeles	2010	TV Series	Cop
Community	2009-2010	TV Series	Stoner Friend / Coffee Delivery Guy
How I Met Your Mother	2009-2010	TV Series	Arthur / Pizza Guy
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story	2010	Video short	Bartender
Breaking Bad: Original Minisodes	2009-2010	TV Mini-Series short	Badger
Halloween Romance	2009	Short
Mattress Mike's Mattresses	2009	Video short	Matt
Funeral Sex	2009	Video short	Matt
Reno 911!	2009	TV Series	Cop Fan
Greek	2008	TV Series	Football Giant
Gilmore Girls	2002	TV Series	Morgan

Director

Title	Year	Status	Character
Borderline	2016	TV Series 6 episodes
The Night Is Young	2015/I

Producer

Title	Year	Status	Character
Gravy	2016/I	Short executive producer
The Night Is Young	2015/I	executive producer

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status	Character
Sanjay and Craig	2015-2016	TV Series performer - 2 episodes

Writer

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Night Is Young	2015/I

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Tiny Tiny Talk Show	2015	TV Series	Himself
Late Night with Seth Meyers	2014	TV Series	Himself
The Rich Eisen Show	2014	TV Series	Himself
Talking Dead	2014	TV Series	Himself - Guest
Drunk History	2014	TV Series	Himself - Narrator
Kevin Pollak's Chat Show	2014	TV Series	Himself
Nick Thune: Hangin' with the Band	2013	TV Special short	Sax
Talking Bad	2013	TV Series	Himself
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon	2013	TV Series	Himself
Rolled	2012	Documentary	Matt Jones
Casting Off	2012	Video short	Himself
Truth	2000	TV Series	Himself