Studio 51
During 1968, Brett Marvin had been performing around the South East and London music venues, where they had become acquainted with blues musician Jo Ann Kelly. Kelly invited Brett Marvin to play at Studio 51, Great Newport Street, London, where she held a residency, as did the John Dummer Blues Band, after the departure of The Rolling Stones. When Kelly and Dummer vacated their residencies, Brett Marvin was offered the position of replacing them. It became the resident band for 4 years running a Sunday session as a drop in venue for blues musicians, including Howlin' Wolf, Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup, Fred McDowell, Dave Kelly, Juke Boy Bonner, Medicine Head, The Steve Miller Band, Lol Coxhill, Sam Mitchell, Bottleneck Bill, Mick Taylor, Larry Johnson, Tony McPhee, the John Dummer Blues Band, The Groundhogs, Roy Bookbinder and Long John Baldry. While at Studio 51, John Lewis, (who later changed his name to Jona Lewie,) saw the band. Lewie also played on the music club circuit, with interval spots playing blues and boogie-woogie on piano. In 1969, following a gig at Wolfie Witcher's blues club at the Nag's Head, where Brett Marvin and Lewie were booked separately, Lewie joined the band as its 6th member. In 1992, Trussell, Lewie and Pitts were interviewed on Greater London Radio about the band’s times at Studio 51.
Read more about this topic: Brett Marvin And The Thunderbolts
Famous quotes containing the word studio:
“The studio people want me to do “Good-bye Charlie” for the movies, but I’m not going to do it. I don’t like the idea of playing a man in a woman’s body—you know? It just doesn’t seem feminine.”
—Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962)