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Brian Auger was raised in London, where he took up the keyboards as a
child and began to hear jazz by way of the American Armed Forces
Network and an older brother's record collection. By his teens, he
was playing piano in clubs, and by 1962 he had formed the Brian Auger
Trio with bass player Rick Laird and drummer Phil Knorra.
In 1964, he won first place in the categories of "New Star" and "Jazz
Piano" in a reader's poll in the Melody Maker music paper, but the
same year he abandoned jazz for a more R&B-oriented approach and
expanded his group to include John McLaughlin (guitar) and Glen
Hughes (baritone saxophone) as the Brian Auger Trinity.
This group split up at the end of 1964, and Auger moved over to
Hammond B-3 organ, teaming with bass player Rick Brown and drummer
Mickey Waller. After a few singles, he recorded his first LP on a
session organized to spotlight blues singer Sonny Boy Williamson that
featured his group, saxophonists Joe Harriot and Alan Skidmore, and
guitarist Jimmy Page; it was Don't Send Me No Flowers, released in
1968.
By mid-1965, Auger's band had grown to include guitarist Vic Briggs
and vocalists Long John Baldry, Rod Stewart, and Julie Driscoll, and
was renamed Steampacket. More a loosely organized musical revue than
a group, Steampacket lasted a year before Stewart and Baldry left and
the band split.
Auger retained Driscoll and brought in bass player Dave Ambrose and
drummer Clive Thacker to form a unit that was billed as Julie
Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity. Their first album, Open, was
released in 1967 on Marmalade Records (owned by Auger's manager,
Giorgio Gomelsky), but they didn't attract attention on record until
the release of their single, "This Wheel's on Fire," (music and
lyrics by Bob Dylan and Rick Danko) in the spring of 1968, which
preceded the appearance of the song on the Band's Music from Big Pink
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The disc hit the top five in the U.K., after which Open belatedly
reached the British charts. Auger and the Trinity recorded the
instrumental album Definitely What! (1968) without Driscoll, then
brought her back for the double-LP, Streetnoise (1968), which reached
the U.S. charts on Atco Records shortly after a singles compilation,
Jools & Brian, gave them their American debut on Capitol in 1969.
Driscoll quit during a U.S. tour, but the Trinity stayed together
long enough to record Befour (1970), which charted in the U.S. on RCA
Records, before disbanding in July 1970.
Auger put together a new band to play less commercial jazz-rock and
facetiously called it the Oblivion Express, since he didn't think it
would last; instead, it became his perennial band name. The initial
unit was a quartet filled out by guitarist Jim Mullen, bass player
Barry Dean, and drummer Robbie McIntosh.
Their initial LP, Brian Auger's Oblivion Express, was released in
1971, followed later the same year by A Better Land, but their first
U.S. chart LP was Second Wind in June 1972, the album that marked the
debut of singer Alex Ligertwood with the band. Personnel changes
occurred frequently, but the Oblivion Express continued to figure in
the U.S. charts consistently over the next several years with Closer
to It! (August 1973), Straight Ahead (March 1974), Live Oblivion,
Vol. 1 (December 1974), Reinforcements (October 1975), and Live
Oblivion, Vol. 2 (March 1976).
Meanwhile, Auger had moved to the U.S. in 1975, eventually settling
in the San Francisco Bay area. In the face of declining sales, he
switched to Warner Bros. Records for Happiness Heartaches, which
charted in February 1977. Encore, released in April 1978, was a live
reunion with Julie Tippetts (nΘe Driscoll) that marked the end of
Auger's association with major record labels, after which he
dissolved the Oblivion Express and recorded less often. In 1990, he
teamed up with former Animals singer Eric Burdon, and the two toured
together during the next four years, releasing Access All Areas
together in 1993.
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Brian Auger-Second Wind 06:35
Brian Auger-Dawn Of Another Day 04:20
Brian Auger-Don't Look Away 14:05
Brian Auger-Maiden Voyage 05:00
Brian Auger-Listen Here 09:24
Brian Auger-Foolish Girl 06:03
Brian Auger-I Wanna Take You Higher 05:05
Brian Auger-Happiness Is Just Around The Bend 06:32
Brian Auger-Whenever You're Ready 08:19
Brian Auger-Planet Earth Calling 04:10
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