Rod Coombes

Rod Coombes found music by method of your guitar, which he used at age group 15. After playing in an area music group known as the Casuals, he chosen music like a profession by enough time he was completed with college and converted professional at 17, consequently switching towards the drums along the way. His 1st professional gig was as an associate from the Luvvers, the support music group for the vocalist Lulu. That gig resulted in his first prolonged trips, as her profession became popular behind the strike single “Shout” and its own various follow-ups. Following that, he shifted to a short association using the Jeff Beck Group, ahead of Aynsley Dunbar’s overtaking the drummer’s place. In the behest from the Luvvers’ previous bassist, Speedy Ruler (later an associate of Cliff Bennett’s group Shanghai), Coombes shifted to a spirit group known as Trifle — the second option had progressed out of the beat-era R&B-based music group known as George Bean & the Joggers, and Coombes changed the second option band’s drummer, potential Procol Harum mainstay B.J. Wilson. The group cut information for United Performers as well as the Pye Information intensifying imprint Dawn Information, including one full recording for the second option, but by 1969 Coombes acquired still left the group. His passions shifted to even more experimental music, specifically the cross types jazz-rock fusion noises that were needs to coalesce from the remnants from the psychedelic period. Coombes started collaborating with previous Zoot Money vocalist/keyboard participant Paul Williams, and both eventually joined up with Juicy Lucy because of their second record, Lie Back and revel in It, and its own follow-up, Get yourself a Whiff of the. After a stint with Spooky Teeth and soul vocalist Roy Teen — including playing over the latter’s second record, Mr. Funky, in 1972 — Coombes transferred through the lineup of Riff Raff, long lasting long more than enough to slice the Outdoors Looking In record, that was unreleased until 1999. At that time, he made a decision to take time from executing and documenting to focus on developing his various other musical abilities. He next resulted in in the initial lineup of Stealers Steering wheel, playing alongside a vintage friend, guitarist Paul Pilnick, whom he’d known since his times playing behind Lulu. Furthermore to playing over the strike that became their personal tune, “Stuck in the centre With You,” Coombes also helped over the arranging of this record and other areas from the record. As was the case with Stealers Steering wheel across its background, the lineup didn’t last lengthy, and Coombes wasn’t there for the next record. But at that time, he’d been recruited by Dave Cousins in to the brand-new lineup of his music group, the Strawbs — the last mentioned group, whose background went back towards the middle-’60s, had simply imploded, with primary associates John Ford and Richard Hudson heading their method (and keyboardist Blue Weaver exiting aswell), just like the music group was coming from the two most effective years in its background. Cousins was attempting to keep the innovative and industrial momentum developed by their prior three albums and a set of strike British isles singles — Coombes was the initial man selected for the brand new account. Coombes produced his debut, along with fellow brand-new associates John Hawken and Chas Cronk, on Hero and Heroine, that was the hardest rocking record the music group (originally a folk-based clothing) acquired ever released, and opened a fresh period in its background. With Coombes’ drumming and lots of wattage at the primary of their appear, the Strawbs handled a valiant struggle against the encroaching waves of punk and disco music before end from the 1970s. He also authored tracks that were documented from the music group, commensurate with Cousins’ even more open method of songwriting by additional people. The Strawbs had been Coombes’ longest group participation of his profession, closing in 1977 after Burning up for you personally. He do a stint using the music group Mainsqueeze, but the majority of his looks on record have already been through reissues of the task from the Strawbs, Stealers Steering wheel, et al. In 2004, the middle-’70s lineup from the Strawbs, including Coombes, re-formed to get a tour.