Missionaria Protectiva

        Jazz-trained and ambidextrous, James Williams was sitting in with Dayton bar bands in his early teens. By the time he joined the Ohio Players in 1974, the group already been kicking around for a decade and a half, but their streak of dance hits for Mercury Records was just beginning. Williams' unfussy but intermittently explosive drumming would motor these tracks along – his steady funk bottom could burst unexpectedly into rambunctious fills, even on ballads like "I Want to Be Free." Though he cooked up his share of tricky rhythms, by the time a given song's chorus came around, Williams would land on the snare with a dance-commanding rhythm that was rarely subtle or negotiable. OHIO PLAYERS Honey Mercury,1975 https://www.sendspace.com/file/std2o5

        Jim Fielder is one of the pioneers of the Fender Bass. His lines were as important and recognizable to listeners as the melodies and words. Blood Sweat & Tears founding member Jim Fielder’s bass passages captivated millions on hits and album tracks which were a groundbreaking meld of rock, jazz, r&b, and pop. The towering Texan also waxed landmark slabs with Frank Zappa, Buffalo Springfield, George Benson, Tim Buckley, and Gene Clark, among others. Profoundly inspired by Jamerson, Jim served as Neil Sedaka’s musical director/bassist in later years. BLOOD,SWEAT & TEARS Child Is Father To The Man  (Columbia,1968) https://www.sendspace.com/file/ppwi0d

        By virtue of playing in a band whose music is here, there and everywhere, George Harrison would by default be a world-best guitar everyman. But let’s not forget that his contributions to The Beatles’ blues and ballads are among their most beloved—”Something,” “Taxman,” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”—and that it was his embrace of Eastern philosophies and instrumentation that helped transform the Fab Four from mod scoundrels to unrepentant hippies. The influences of Hare Krishna, Hinduism and transcendental meditation would be felt and heard long into his solo career. Sitar, slide guitar and the keys and progressions of Indian classical music quietly opened the eyes (and ears) of Harrison’s fans within Beatlemania and beyond it.       Harrison would also sign on to pluck strings in sessions for his Beatles bandmates (including “Instant Karma” by John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band), their friends (Billy Preston), contemporaries (The Rolling Stones’ Ron Wood), and inspirations (Ravi S

        Rod Argent  had an idea for a new sound, a new band in a new era of music. After creating a group and writing songs to perform and record, Rod’s dream of a new style of rock was born (with the help of his fellow countrymen, the Beatles). His group, the Zombies, helped change the face of music and scored several hits in the 1960s including “She’s Not There,” “Tell Her No” and “Time of the Seasons.” After the group dissolved, he formed the band Argent, which toured and recorded for nearly a decade before he reestablished the Zombies for world tours in the 1990s and early 2000s. During the 1970s and 80s he ran his own keyboard music store in London, which for many musicians of the era was the location they first heard and bought innovative synthesizers such as ARP and Moog.    ROD ARGENT     Moving Home     MCA,1978 https://www.sendspace.com/file/6r7fiv