DON'T SHOOT ME...Peter Bardens
Peter Bardens first came to the attention of record buyers when he joined Camel in 1972 to record their self-titled debut album. Bardens had already built a formidable reputation as a keyboard player well before this, though.
Bardens’s first band was The Cheynes, which happened to be Mick Fleetwood’s first band as well. Shortly after their third single failed to sell the Cheynes broke up and Bardens joined Van Morrison’s band Them.After Them, he formed Peter B’s Looners, which eventually became Shotgun Express, a band that played soul music and featured Rod Stewart, Peter Green, and Mick Fleetwood.
When Bardens joined Camel it was his keyboard wizardry that made them a force to be reckoned with. After their 1973 debut album, they followed it with Mirage, whose “The White Rider suite” (based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings) ushers in a new conceptual approach and brings them a certain cachet on the West Coast of America.
Following his exit from Camel, Bardens joined Van Morrison’s band, and played live with the singer on the tour in support of the album. He then worked with Bobby Tench, joined the band, Keats two years later before working on his own electronic albums during the remainder of the 1980s, having some airplay success with the song, “In Dreams,” before recording the 1988 album he called Speed of Light that featured Mick Fleetwood.
Bardens released more solo albums in the 1990s but in the summer of 2001, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor and, on January 22, 2002, he died at the age of 56.
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