The Echoes

The Echoes were formed early in the ’60s in London, and by early 1962 these were already a semi-professional outfit, using a lineup comprising Doug Reece (bass), Laurie Jay (drums), Ian Hines (piano), and Vic Briggs (guitar). Briggs still left after a couple weeks and was changed by guitarist Dave Uses up. The group do sufficiently to get great support gigs and earn some cash and a popularity, as well as got an area playing behind going to American rock and roll & roll superstar Jerry Lee Lewis. They transferred up to the big style in past due 1964 if they had been selected to become Dusty Springfield’s support music group on-stage and, afterwards, on many of her recordings. It had been the Echoes — at that time comprising Reece, John Dryden (drums), Jimmy O’Brien (body organ), and Vic Briggs (electric guitar) — who had been along for the infamous South African non-tour, which the vocalist refused to tailor her collection of concert locations towards the country’s apartheid laws and regulations, creating a global incident along the way. The Echoes supported her on her behalf prime many years of touring Britain as well as the continent, as well as the United kingdom soul diva provided the associates significant prominence; bassist Doug Reece even would join her on the mike to duet on tracks such as for example “Mockingbird,” as well as the people had been all recognized to the English music press of the time. Additionally, these were seriously featured on her behalf second English album, Ev’rything’s APPROACHING Dusty (that was released, in relatively altered type, as You don’t need to Say YOU LIKE Me, in the us), playing of all from the up-tempo amounts. The group also supported Springfield on her behalf strike U.K. solitary “In the center of Nowhere,” and continued to be her primary stage accompaniment until she moved her foundation of procedures to america. Guitarists Vic Briggs and his successor, Gary Boyle, both shifted to places in Brian Auger & the Trinity, and Briggs was later on a key person in the post-1966 Pets (usually known as Eric Burdon & the Pets). Among the late-era person in the Echoes, key pad participant Ivan Chandler, consequently joined Oedipus Organic and Daddy Longlegs, and was an extremely active music maker in Britain up through the 2000s.