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FM UNKNOWN LINEAGE > REEL
Recorded October 4, 1967 at Maida Vale Studio #4, broadcast October 8, 1967
Denny Laine (guitar, vocals)
Andy Leigh (bass)
Peter Trout (drums)
John Stein (violin)
Nigel Pinkett (cello)
'After spending time in Spain Laine formed Denny Laine's Electric String Band, a short-lived experimental affair notable for the pioneering us of a Royal Academy quartet using amplified classical string instruments - an idea later filched by his Brummie brethren, Roy Wood and Jeff Lyne. Joining him in the venture was the unreliable ex-Pretty Things drummer, Viv Prince, and Spooky Tooth bassist Andy Leigh. As a soloist Laine was signed to Deram and became a frequent feature on John Peel's Top Gear radio show. He seemed about to achieve single success with his wonderfully baroque 'Say You Don't Mind' (with an arrangement scored by John Paul Jones) but incredibly it did nothing, when the follow up 'Too Much In Love' fell on equally deaf ears the band prematurely split in August 1967.
Laine drifted through the rest of the Sixties. His next Tony Secunda -guided venture Balls with fellow Brummies Trevor Burton and Steve Gibbons folded after only one single - the Burton-penned 'Fight For My Country'. An equally unsatisfactory stint with Ginger Baker's Airforce followed ( Laine's version of Bob Dylan's 'Man of Constant Sorrow' becoming a single in 1970) before Laine got the call to join Paul MCartney's new group Wings in August 1971. '
The original version of the band was formed in December 1966, and broke up in May 1967.
Denny Laine (vocals, guitar)
Binky McKenzie (bass)
Viv Prince (drums)
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Clive Gillinson (cello)
Chris Van Campen (cello)
Wilhelm Martin (violin)
John Stein (violin)