RETURN TO THE Future
“We are going to come to Europe. We’ve got a little problem with the other band who registered the damned name and are trying to stop us from going to Germany, which is not fun, but we are trying to deal with that now.”
e started putting it together about a year ago and the first rehearsal was fantastic,” says bass guitarist and vocalist new version of Nektar. “We just clicked again. It was like going back 40 years.”
The bass guitarist and vocalist’s enthusiasm for the reformed US-based band, who have just released a new album, The Other Side, is tangible. He was one of their founder members, playing with Nektar from 1969 in their progressive space rock heyday through to their dissolution in 1978. Since then, with shifting line-ups, Nektar have had various periods of activity and disbandment. Moore last played with them in 2002.
Things have recently become a bit more complicated following the death in 2016 of lead vocalist and guitarist Roye Albrighton, who had featured in the majority of the band’s line-ups from 1969, with an online statement that: “the baton has been passed [to keyboard player Klaus Henatsch] as musical lead, producer and head of the band.”
