- John Greves
John Greves (born
27 October 1952 inMargate , Kent) is a British musician andrecord producer . Greves playsguitar andsynthesisers and is also a composer and lyricist.A founder member of Nova and later Ghost, Greves was a one time member of
Robert Calvert ’sCaptain Lockheed and the Starfighters and after taking an early retirement from music in 1985, due to the birth of his son, later rejoined the members of the originalHawkwind with whom he was involved in the early years to formSpace Ritual in 1999. After touring and recording with S.R. for nearly six years and producing several albums, a DVD and an EP he again retired from live work to set up and run his own recording studio.Although Greves’ musical interest began by playing drums in a dance combo at the age of 13 (and nearly getting expelled when caught playing in licensed premises) he later went on to experiment with
electronic music several years before the invention of the first commercialsynthesiser , byRobert Moog in 1971, by wiring up various items of laboratory equipment to amplifiers and tape recorders. He later used those techniques in playing withHawkwind , but blighted withpsychotic episode s following a period ofrecreational drug use he spent a time in St. Augustine’s Hospital, Chartham, (coincidentally at the same time as collaboratorRobert Calvert was a patient there), and left the music business for several years.Greves has collaborated with many bands over the years, most recently with
Daddy Fantastic , The Mighty Tong and Steve Furlong in 2007Discography:
· Love you and Leave You/Something Wicked This Way Comes (1984)
· The Holocaust (1984)
· Futurama/People in Love (1986)
· 2001 A Space Rock Odyssey (2001)
· The Greasy Truckers Party (2001)
· Live At Glastonbury And Guildford Festival (2002)
· Live At The Venusian Electric Ballroom In The Cygnus 5 Galaxy (2005)
· Sonic Savages (2005)
· Satiricon (2006)
· Things are Weird Lately/Interruptions/Going Out Drinking – with DaddyFantastic (2007)
· Otherworld (2007)
. Rasputin Rocks - The Musical (2008)
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