HEADS HANDS AND FEET
HEADS HANDS AND FEET
ORIGINALLY POET AND THE ONE MAN BAND, CHANGED NAME TO HEADS HANDS AND FEET IN 1970. FORMED BY TONY COLTON (VOCALS, KEYBOARDS) AND RAY SMITH (VOCALS, GUITAR), WHO HAD WRITTEN TOGETHER FOR ELEVEN YEARS FOR SUCH DIVERSE ARTISTS AS CREAM, ANIMALS AND GEORGIE FAME. REST OF MUSICIANS HAVE STRONG PEDIGREES: PETE GAVIN DRUMMED WITH BLUESOLOGY AND ALBERT LEE (GUITAR/KEYBOARDS), WHOSE ROOTS ARE IN COUNTRY MUSIC, HAD LONG BEEN REGARDED BRITAIN'S FINEST ELECTRIC GUITAR PLAYER (ERIC CLAPTON HAS BEEN QUOTED AS SAYING ALBERT LEE IS HIS FAVOURITE GUITARIST). "HEADS HANDS AND FEET" (1971), ISSUED AS DOUBLE ALBUM IN AMERICA, WAS EDITED DOWN TO SINGLE ALBUM FOR UK RELEASE AND STANDS AS THEIR BEST. DISPLAYING INDIVIDUAL TALENTS TO ADVANTAGE. BY "TRACKS" (1972), THEY HAD STARTED TO MOVE AWAY FROM COUNTRY MUSIC AND MORE INTO ROCK. EGO-CLASHES LED TO FRAGMENTATION OF GROUP DURING 1972. RECORDED "OLD SOLDIERS NEVER DIE" (1973), HOWEVER, AND ALSO WORKED WITH ROCKER JERRY LEE LEWIS ON HIS LONDON SESSIONS ALBUM. BASS PLAYER CHAS HODGES WENT ON TO FORM CHAS AND DAVE.