Egor - Street 1971

Yes, this is a post about a single song. why you ask, why bother with posting about one bloody song ,why don you put it on the "Page 45" feature on your page? (which, by the way, you should really check out!!).
Well, my answer is simply BECAUSE I WANT TO. Ha! so there!

Seriously, I came across this track a while ago and there really isn't that much info about them out there. And as it turns out, this is the only recording the band ever made! as I was hinting for info on the interwebs, i came across a post in the Steve Hoffman music forms.
Basically , someone was asking about this track that wound up on a comp (Downer Rock Genocide), and the bass player said G'head, ask me anything ya want!!!
What luck.

So as per the story he told, here's some history: "my name is Nick Diss, and I am the drummer that  formed the band Egor with Mike Foster on bass, Eric Taylor on guitar, and John Flite on harmonica and vocals. We formed around 69/70 in East London, UK. I was 20 years old when we recorded that track and Mike was about 24, John was in his early thirties, and Eric that brilliant guitarist was 16!

We played all over the Southeast of London and had a three night a week residency at a pub called the Plough and Harrow in Lytenstone East London. One night a guy came up to us and asked if he could record a song for a record of local artists. We said yes and he came in the next week and stuck a single microphone abouve the band and recorded the set. A few weeks later he came back with a disc for each member of the group and that was the last we hears of it.

Somehow the compilation album surfaced on a CD in the US about ten years ago....?

i am still in touch with Mike who lives in Thailand now and plays with another band called T2, another well know band from that era. John died of a heart attack in his fifties (he wasn't known as "Fat John for nothing), and Eric vanished without a trace. All efforts to track him down over the years have been in vain. (He was fond of LSD so I assume he became another acid victim and probably died young)Oh and somehow, a rumor got around on one of these boards that we used to open for Black Sabbath ....NOT TRUE..... We did play on the same circuit as them, but the band w supported were just as known as Sabbath back then and was called Black Widow. And finally, I have seen many articles over the years crediting us with being one of the band swho created Heavy Metal, but we always considered us as a heavy blues band. ....make of that what you will. 

well there you have it, another one lost to the ages, and recovered years later and given the proper credit it deserves. it's hard to comprehend how many of these bands would have gotten somewhere had the times been a bit different.

Then again, when I look at music today, perhaps not.
Cheers all!