Robert Henrit

Robert Henrit is really a Uk drummer whose four-decade-plus profession has carried him through regular membership in several best U.K. and worldwide pop/rock rings, including Argent as well as the Kinks. Created in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, his 1st group affiliation was with Buster Meikle & the Daybreakers, that was where he 1st used guitarist Russ Ballard. He and Ballard had been both later people from the Roulettes, who 1st achieved fame because the support music group to vocalist Adam Trust before stepping from their very own and experiencing some intermittent industrial achievement. He and Ballard had been both later carefully associated — initial as session music artists and afterwards as actual associates — of Device 4+2, a pop/rock and roll outfit with a solid folk impact. In past due 1968, Henrit became a member of Ballard, ex-Zombies keyboard-player Fishing rod Argent, and bassist Jim Rodford in Argent, a pop/rock and roll supergroup of kinds, who appreciated world-wide interest for a lot of their eight-year background. He also sometimes played for various other performers, including Colin Blunstone, Duncan Browne, and Leo Sayer during this time period. Following Argent’s break up, he did program work with Roger Daltrey and Dave Davies, and transferred through a variety of groups on the following eight years, like the jazz-rock music group Charlie. In 1984, he became a member of the Kinks, changing their longtime drummer Mick Avory. Henrit’s function was well-known towards the music group at that time, from his 1960s group organizations, his session work with Dave Davies, and in addition his period as an associate of Charlie, which acquired opened up for the Kinks on many events; additionally, his longtime Argent bandmate Jim Rodford was today the Kinks bassist. Henrit continued to be with the music group for twelve years, until their public pension in 1996, and was also present on Ray Davies’ soundtrack documenting Go back to Waterloo.