EUROPEAN TOUR - 1976

This Year's Model
"A Night On The Town"

The set contains:

• Three Time Loser
• You Wear It Well
• Big Bayou, Tonight's The Night
• Wild Side Of Life
• This Old Heart Of Mine
• Sweet Little Rock'n Roller
• The Killing Of Georgie
• I Don't Want To Talk About It
• Maggie May
• Angel
• True Blue
• You Keep Me Hangin' On
• Get Back
• (I Know) I'm Losing You
• Sailing, Stay With Me
• Twistin' The Night Away

December 1976

01 Birmingham, UK
02 Birmingham, UK
04 Leicester, UK
05 Leicester, UK
07 Southampton, UK
08 Southampton, UK
11 Cardiff, Wales
12 Cardiff, Wales
14 Newcastle, UK
15 Newcastle, UK
17 Newcastle, UK
18 Newcastle, UK
21 London, Olympia, UK
22 London, Olympia, UK
23 London, Olympia, UK
24 London, Olympia, UK
30 Glasgow, Scotland
31 Glasgow, Scotland

November 1976

01 Trondheim, Norway
03 Bergen, Norway
05 Oslo, Norway
06 Göteborg, Sweden
08 Abo, Sweden
09 Helsinki, Finland
11 Brussels, Forrest National, Belgium
13 Stockholm, Sweden
14 Stockholm, Sweden
16 Köbenhavn, Denmark
17 Köbenhavn, Denmark
18 Aarhus, Denmark
20 Amstedam, Netherlands
26 Manchester, UK
27 Manchester, UK
28 Manchester, UK
30 Birmingham, UK

Carmine (pronounced CAR-mine) has been breaking new ground in drumming for nigh on one decade.

Born in New York City, he graduated at 19 from the wedding and bar mitsvah circuit to a group called the Pigeons, who eventually became the Vanilla Fudge. With their high-powered harmonies and expansive sound the Fudge were one of the first pop groups to take on the so-called "progressive" look. Appice's heavy handed, innovative drumming helped lift the pop drummer out of the background role and into the performing spotlight. He's known Stewart since 1968 and in fact almost joined the Jeff Beck Group when Rod was featured vocalist. After a stint in Cactus, Carmine did hook up with Beck in the Beck, Bogart and Appice combo. That venture lasted a couple of years before he joined the Barry Goldberg / Mike Bloomfield project, KGB.

Bringing to the band yet another musical environment is bassist Philip Chen. While it may finally be a household name, reggae was unheard of outside the Caribbean when Chen, from Kingston, Jamaica, hit London in the mid-60s with Jimmy James and the Vagabonds.

Chen came to England with the Vagabonds as a spare guitarist. His on again, off again membership status in the band often depended on how much room there was on stage at the Vagabond's cramped pub venues. If there was room, Chen played. He became an official member when he replaced the band's departed bassist. After taking up the four-stringed cause he went to pioneer reggae with the group for five years until he left in 1970 to pursue studio work.

In 1973 Stewart asked him to join the Faces but Chen had a previous commitment, a studio assignment in Jamaica with the Butts Band and couldn't go out on the road with the Faces.

Gary Grainger was born in the Kilburn district of North London. Originally a drummer, he was won over to electric guitar by "the guitar sound" of the Shadows and Buddy Holly. He is late of the hard-working English outfit called Strider, which he joined in 1973.

Grainger attracted the attention of Stewart when Strider accompanied The Faces on a '74 European Tour'. Apparently the impression was a lasting one. When it came time for an audition for the new band, he was summoned and quickly selected. Of the three guitarists in the band, says Gary, "We all have different ways of playing. I'm more the raunchy kind of player which seems to blend well with Jim and Billy".

Though he was born in the pastoral country of Somerset, Jim Cregan spent most of his life in London cutting a wide berth through the English music scene. His early credits involve stints with the post Rory Gallagher-jazz-rock group, Taste, and the influential Family, the progressive conglomerate with whom he played bass. Of his past work he considers his work with English jazz singer Linda Lewis as "musically providing him with the most enjoyment because it was the most demanding". He's done world tours with both Linda Lewis and Cat Stevens, and in addition produces Lewis's records.

His recent notoriety has come from his role in Cockney Rebel, featuring the inimitable Steve Harley. Cregan logged two years in Rebel and found considerable artistic freedom within the group, but when the Stewart offer appeared "it was too god to resist".

John Jarvis at 22 is the youngest memeber of the band. His determined rise to session prominence has been nothing short of meteoric. A product of Pasadena, California, he was signed to a publishing company by the timehe was 15. His big break came when Art Garfunkel on a recent solo LP used some songs written by a friend of his. Jarvis was asked to contribute keyboard work and since has played on albums for Ringo Starr, Leo Sayer and Stewart's "A Night On The Town".

The piano-playing of Jarvis reveals a fairly well-rounded musician, so much so that experts are divided on which is chief among his strenghts. Jarvis's extensive classical background led Garfunkel to conclude that he shouldn't be used on fast numbers, while Stewart, who was unaware of the pianist's classical side, wanted Jarvis the rock'n roller only for the uptempo parts of his album. Incredibly, Rod Stewart's ban is the first pro band John's ever been in. "I just never found a band l liked", says the finicky Jarvis.