Medicine Head

Produced in Stafford, England in 1968, the Uk blues duo Medication Head were made up of vocalist/multi-instrumentalist John Fiddler and Peter Hope-Evans, who performed the harmonica and jew’s harp. Upon their development at art university, Medicine Mind became a staple of the neighborhood club circuit, ultimately recording a demonstration which discovered its method to important BBC radio character John Peel off, who started championing the monitor “His Guiding Hands.” Additional DJs soon adopted match, and quickly the duo was within the brink of stardom. With Peel’s continuing assistance, Medicine Mind entered the studio room to begin documenting their 1970 debut LP New Containers Old Medication. Their concentrate shifted from fundamental blues to a far more intricate audio for 1971’s Large within the Drum, made by previous Yardbird Keith Relf; after rating a surprise strike with the solitary “(As well as the) Photos in the Sky,” Hope-Evans remaining the group, and was changed by Relf and drummer John Davies for 1972’s The Dark Part of the Moon. Hope-Evans rejoined ahead of 1973’s One and something Is normally One, which released the title monitor to the very best Three from the U.K. singles graph. Today a five-piece also including guitarist Roger Saunders, onetime Family members drummer Rob Townsend and bassist George Ford, Medication Mind notched two even more strike singles, “Increasing Sunlight” and “Slide and Glide,” but 1974’s Thru’ a Five didn’t graph, as well as the group begun to disintegrate. Just Fiddler and Hope-Evans continued to be by enough time of 1976’s Two Guy Music group, and after one last one, “Me and Suzy Strike the ground,” Medicine Mind officially disbanded. Fiddler later on resurfaced within the English Lions, accompanied by a stint in Package of Frogs and lastly a solo profession, while Hope-Evans added to the Pete Townshend albums Clear Glass and White colored City.