2/2/2024 0 Comments Traffic band![]() There was a great scene, some great blowing things going on in Birmingham. Then I was singing in folk clubs around Birmingham and playing jazz in clubs on Sundays.Ĭhris: Saturdays, dinnertime, musicians used to get together and jam at a pub called the Chapel. At the time I got kicked out, I knew exactly what I was going to do and didn’t even bother to go back for a leaving certificate. It was a very free school, but I created a “bad impression.” Like I was a bit more fiery in those days. Stevie: I was in college, but I got kicked out. You’d have to play standard waltzes and foxtrots, but we tried to do as much jazz as we could get away with. We’d do the occasional wedding reception, Club Social, British Legion meeting on Saturdays. There were four of us in the group, and we were playing what I then thought was jazz but now know was 12 bar sequences on piano, bass, and drum. It was totally out of place.Ĭhris: I was in a group called Locomotive, on and off while I was at college, and then I left college. We did the same kind of set that we did in Birmingham in British Railway Workmen’s Clubs. We did a Davy Graham number which was actually a Leadbelly piece called “Leavin’ Blues.” Davy had come back from Tangiers and made this folk blues LP and did this version which was influenced by the music he heard in Tangiers. It was group in Evesham, which is near Birmingham. Actually, he left before we changed the name of the group to Deep Feeling. Were the three of you in the group Deep Feeling back in Birmingham? Then Jim, Chris, and Stevie took over and went on with their fantastic music until dawn, as they did most days and nights they were together.Ĭould we talk about some of your musical beginnings. (Everyone’s a musician in the Traffic cottage). The interview was interrupted by interruptions -but then the interview itself was an interruption- and by a mad, cold, sliding in the mud drive (Stevie Winwood and Chris Wood sort of in control of the wheel) in a jeep up to Roman Fields, where you find not only pure uncomplicated air but also a 360 degree view of what seems like the world.Īfter the interview, we jammed in the instrument room- Stevie on drums, Jim Capaldi on one organ, and your interviewer on another. Fantasy,” followed by a selection of beautiful Swan Silvertones performances.Įveryone sat around the living and listening room - quiet and high-day vibrations. Everyone was waking up when we arrived one early golden-leaved afternoon, and we all listened to tapes of Hugh Masekela, Steve Stills, and the second Supersession playing “Mr. The interview took place at Traffic’s Berkshire cottage three weeks before the break-up.
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