”We Got What We Deserved…”
As the 70s dawned, Rare Bird seemed to have everything going for them. They had an immediate hit single, were signed to one of the most enlightened and dynamic record labels of the late-60s/early-70s and had a sound that set them apart from everyone else. But their aspirations were dashed.
“We were let down by circumstances conspiring to trip us up,” admits drummer Mark Ashton, before adding, “But some of it happened through our own misjudgments.”
The story begins with Lunch. Not the meal but the band. In August 1968, keyboard players Graham Field and David Kaffinetti first teamed up in Lunch. By the following November, this band were over and Field and Kaffinetti brought in Steve Gould on bass/vocals and Ashton for a new project.
“David and I knew each other from Herne Bay,” explains Ashton. “I moved to London and met up with Davy O’List, who’d been the guitarist with The Nice. We tried to put together a new band, but things didn’t work out. By then David had also come to London; he and
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