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Joel O’Brien

Joel O’Brien was a multi-instrumentalist — though mostly named a drummer, with regards to recordings — whose profession took him from a busy regional R&B music group to the very best circles of pop/rock and roll session function in the 10 years that followed. He was created in NEW YORK in 1943, the child of the entertainment professional (and later on radio disk jockey) and an celebrity, and he were only available in music with lessons around the piano young. He flirted with performing as a pastime for a while, and also worked well as an apprentice film editor, but he demonstrated his real desire for his selection of an education after senior high school: the Manhattan College of Music. By his very own account, even as of this early stage in his lifestyle he previously manifested a drug abuse issue — an dependence on heroin — that could pet dog him for a lot of his early profession. O’Brien gravitated toward jazz, though he also got a pastime in folk and nation music, and finally joined up with an R&B music group known as the Kingbees, whose people included Danny “Kootch” Kortchmar on business lead guitar. Pursuing that group’s break up, he and Kortchmar, alongside singer/guitarist Adam Taylor, shaped the Traveling Machine, who appeared poised for achievement training of New York’s Greenwich Community but under no circumstances quite noticed their potential — there have been other problems, to be certain, however the heroin obsession that he and Taylor both distributed didn’t help the band’s leads during its short one-year background. O’Brien and Kortchmar had been later section of a music group known as Jo Mama; he also handed down through an clothing known as the Glitterhouse, whose people included Moogy Klingman. Following that he continued to try out (alongside Kortchmar along with other users of Jo Mama) with Carole Ruler on her 1st three albums, and he also performed on Wayne Taylor’s sister Kate Taylor’s acclaimed debut recording, Sister Kate. O’Brien was area of the LA music scene through the early ’70s but ultimately relocated to Woodstock, NY, dealing with Robbie Dupree in a variety of bands, and in addition started carrying out work in pictures. He also resided in Tuscany for a while and came back to playing music — this time around the piano. In his later on existence, although he continuing to try out music, O’Brien focused more on artwork with regards to his public existence. He passed away of liver malignancy in 2004.

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