EF Band

The EF Music group, so named after founding members — vocalist/bassist Par Ericson and guitarist Bengt Fischer — became inextricably from the New Wave of Uk ROCK when their song “Fighting Back again for Stone” was featured in the legendary Steel for Muthas compilation. Just problem was, these were in fact Swedish! The band’s roots date back again to the middle-’70s and its own protagonists’ participation within a Gothenburg jazz-rock group called Epizootic, which released an individual record entitled Daybreak in 1978. The guitar-slinging duo produced their break the next season, baptizing themselves the Ericson-Fischer Music group, shifting right into a hard rock and roll direction, and finally starting up with U.K. indie label Rok to concern a single called “A LATER DATE Eliminated” (a divide with another music group called Synchromesh). Then they relocated to Britain permanently, secured a fresh drummer in picture veteran Dave Dufort (sibling of Girlschool member Denise Dufort), and proceeded to record a few even more singles (“Self Produced Suicide” and “The Devil’s Eyesight”) for Redball Information. These, coupled with regular live showcases to greatly help the now-shortened EF Music group, infiltrated the fast increasing New Influx of British ROCK; it’s doubtful EMI also noticed two out of the three lads weren’t United kingdom when they asked them to be a part of the aforementioned Steel for Muthas launch in 1980. Regardless, the EF Music group jumped at the opportunity, and got their simply rewards later on that 12 months when Mercury Information provided them an recording deal. Dufort all of a sudden went sign up for Angel Witch, nevertheless, therefore another Swede, drummer Dag Eliason, was earned to displace him for the documenting of 1981’s full-length THE FINAL Laugh Is usually on Us back Gothenburg. The recording was no bestseller and Mercury would ultimately drop the EF Music group, however the trio received a consolation reward when Rainbow employed them as support take action for his or her 1982 Western tour. Their following move was to employ an effective frontman, British-born vocalist John Ridge, ahead of documenting 1983’s sophomore Deep Cut, but its unequal songwriting, poor advertising from your band’s new impartial label, and unpredicted abandonment of metallic for melodic AOR conspired to scare off a lot of the EF Band’s group of fans. The group persisted for some more years, touring sporadically and finally releasing another and final recording entitled One Night time Stand (offering new vocalist Roger Marsden and second guitarist Anders Allhage) in 1985 through Mausoleum Information. But this certainly became the EF Band’s parting shot, as their fresh glam metal picture didn’t perform justice from what ironically certified as their most N.W.O.B.H.M.-sounding record ever.