Geoff Everett

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Geoff Everett playing live at 'The Doghouse' Guernsey

Geoff Everett is an English musician, band member and solo artist mainly playing blues music. He has been a member of various English rock music acts which include Chicago Line, The Mosquitoes and Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages. Today he leads his own band.

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Early years, 1960s

The Chicago Line Blues Band posing in Gravesend, Kent ~ Geoff Everett, far right Chicago Line Blues Band.jpg
The Chicago Line Blues Band posing in Gravesend, Kent ~ Geoff Everett, far right

In 1967, Everett joined the Chicago Line Blues Band aka Chicago Line. [1] The group in the past had included such members as included Tim Hinkley on keyboards, Ivan Zagni on guitar, Mike Fellana on trumpet, Louis Cennamo on bass and Viv Prince on drums, [2] Tand had released a single, "Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop" bw "Jump Back" on Philips BF 1488 in May 1966. [3]

1970s to 1990s

Gerry McAvoy (right) and Brendan O'Neil (left) when not playing with Rory Gallagher, joined Everett (middle) in a three-piece band called The Mosquitoes. Geoff with Gerry and Brendan.jpg
Gerry McAvoy (right) and Brendan O'Neil (left) when not playing with Rory Gallagher, joined Everett (middle) in a three-piece band called The Mosquitoes.

In 1979 Evertt was part of Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages. The line up included Dave Sutch on lead vocals, himself on lead guitar, Tony Ellis on bass and Mike Crawford on drums. [4]

2000s

In 2012, his band released the album, The Quick and the Dead which featured Mollie Marriott, Tim Hinkley, Dave Swarbrick, and Albert Lee & Gary Barnacle on various tracks. [5] [6]

Also in 2015 the song "Bad Bad Man" from the album "The Quick and The Dead" was included on the Sci-Fi Horror film Tremors 5: Bloodlines released by Universal Studios. The song is used as incidental music. [7] [8]

His album Cut and Run did get a good review by Ger Ready to Rock with some comparison to ACDC being made. [9]

The Geoff Everett Band was booked to appear at the Dr Jekylls club on July 25, 2021. [10]

Associations

Everett appeared in the line up of Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages (after the departure of Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page). [11]

Collaborations

He wrote the song "Satellite Blues" for the Rhythm and Blues band Nine Below Zero's album Off The Hook (1992). [12]

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References

  1. Bman's Blues Report, Thursday, June 7, 2012 - The Geoff Everett Band
  2. East Anglian Music Archive - CHICAGO LINE BLUES BAND
  3. 45Cat - Chicago Line - Discography
  4. Screaming Lord Sutch & the Savages - LINE UPS 1960-2008, Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages #31 (1979)
  5. Amazon - ALBUM, The Quick and the Dead
  6. Spirit of Rock - The Geoff Everett Band The Quick and the Dead
  7. Tremors 5: Bloodlines (Video 2015) , retrieved 5 November 2018
  8. "Bad Bad Man – Geoff Everett Band". Discursive Drummer's Auditory Expedition. 23 January 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  9. Get Ready to Rock, October 4, 2015 - Album review: GEOFF EVERETT BAND – Cut And Run
  10. All Events - Sound On Sundays - THE GEOFF EVERETT BAND
  11. Alain; Christine; et al. "LINE UPS 1960–2008". Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages. Google. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  12. "Off The Hook. Nine below zero". discogs. Retrieved 27 November 2014.