| Artist: Brand X |
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| Brand X | |
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| Origin | New York, London, |
| Genres | Jazz fusion, Jazz |
| Years active | 1974–1980 1992–1998 |
| Labels | Buckyball Records |
| Associated acts | Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins Genesis |
| Former members | |
| Morris Pert John Giblin Phil Collins Robin Lumley Percy Jones Mike Clark John Goodsall Robin Lumley Pete Robinson Mike Miller Mick Stevens |
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| Drums, Keyboard, Guitar, Bass | |
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Brand X is a Jazz Fusion/Progressive Rock band who were active between 1975–1980 and 1983-1999. Important members were Phil Collins (drums), Percy Jones (bass), John Goodsall (guitar)[1] & Robin Lumley (keyboards). In 1992 original members John Goodsall and Percy Jones formed a new trio version of Brand X with drummer Frank Katz from Percy's NY band Tunnels.
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Brand X started in 1975 as a "jam" band funded by Island Records,whose A&R rep Danny Wilding wrote down the name "Brand X" to keep track of their activity in the studio calendar and it stuck! Original drummer/vocalist Phil Spinelli and rhythm guitarist Pete Bonas quit the band after recording the 1st (disappeared/unreleased) Brand X album.Genesis drummer Phil Collins took over on drums and in early 1976 Unorthodox Behaviour was released to coincide with an extensive UK tour.Percussionist and composer Morris Pert was added later for the follow-up Moroccan Roll. (The band had previously employed other percussionists, including Gaspar Lawal[1], Bill Bruford,Andy Ward (of Camel) and Preston Heyman).
Sometime in 1976, both John Goodsall and Phil Collins (along with Mike Rutherford and Anthony Phillips) assisted Peter Gabriel in the recording of demos towards his debut solo album after leaving Genesis.Goodsall also recorded experimental music with Bill Bruford,drummer from Yes and King Crimson,Bayete (Todd Cochran) from Automatic Man,a San Francisco group led by Santana's drummer Mike Shrieve, and Donni Harvey on Bass, also from Automatic Man.
In early 1977 Brand X decided to recruit a replacement drummer for Collins due to conflicting schedules with Genesis(although Collins rejoined for strategic dates throughout the year) and Kenwood Dennard of Pat Martino's group was recruited in New York, making his debut on the band's US tour (a 32-date affair in May-June 1977) and appearing on part of the live album Livestock. Collins came back to the fold for a series of dates in September 1977 including two appearances on the same day in London (Crystal Palace garden party) and Paris (Fete de l’Humanite) - the first time ever a band played two open-air shows in different countries on the same day. A second US tour followed late in the year, again with Dennard on drums.
In 1979, Collins re-joined Brand X for the series of recording sessions which would generate enough material for two albums, 1979's Product and 1980's Do They Hurt?. These took place at Startling Studios, located in Ringo Starr's countryside home (formerly owned by John Lennon), with two distinct line-ups operating in alternation, as Jones later explained. "Our record and management companies were both complaining about poor record sales and telling us we had to make the music more accessible. Some of the guys agreed to go along with this but I felt that to do this would not generate a new audience but would probably just alienate the one that we already had. The only solution was to have two bands, one being more accessible and the other being more experimental or whatever. For my stuff the line-up was Robinson, Clark, Goodsall and me; for the other direction it was Lumley, Collins and Goodsall with John Giblin on bass. We recorded in shifts, ours was 8pm to 4am and the others 10am to 6pm".
A UK tour took place in April–May 1980 (co-headlining with Bruford), for which Mike Clark once again took over the drum stool.
Goodsall and Jones formed a 'power trio' version of Brand X with drummer Frank Katz in 1992, releasing the definitive Brand X conceptual swansong X-Communication the following year. To make up for the lack of a keyboard player, Goodsall used a Gibson Max midi guitar system to trigger synths, samples and keyboard sounds along with his guitars. This line-up went on to record 1996's Manifest Destiny, and tour Japan and Europe in 1997 with ex-Gong drummer Pierre Moerlen replacing Katz.In recent years, Jones has concentrated on his band Tunnels and other efforts and Goodsall has recorded with Franz Pusch and perfomed regular solo concerts with guest musicians.
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