Ray Fenwick

Ray Fenwick
Background information
Birth name Raymond John Fenwick
Also known as Ray
Born 18 July 1946, Romford, Essex
Genres Hard rock, blues-rock, progressive rock, heavy metal, jazz fusion
Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter, producer
Instruments Guitar, keyboards, Vocals
Years active 1962–present
Labels Angel Air
Associated acts The Syndicats, Spencer Davis Group, Tee Set, After Tea, Ian Gillan Band, Fancy, Forcefield
Website rayfenwick.com
Notable instruments
Gibson Les Paul

Raymond John Fenwick (born 18 July 1946) is an English guitarist and session musician, best known for replacing Steve Howe in The Syndicats, and as the lead guitarist of Ian Gillan's post Deep Purple solo project, the Ian Gillan Band.[1]

Career

Fenwick's first professional group was a ska and bluebeat group called "Ray and the Red Devils". In 1964, he joined The Syndicats as replacement to Steve Howe, and he was in turn replaced by Peter Banks. In 1965 he joined the Dutch group "Tee Set", from which developed another group "After Tea".

He was with The Spencer Davis Group from 1967 to 1969. He also co-wrote the theme music to the 1970s cult TV show Magpie, which was credited to "The Murgatroyd Band", which was basically The Spencer Davis Group at the time.

In July 1972, he played guitar on a number of the tracks for Bo Diddley's Chess Records album The London Bo Diddley Sessions. During the '70s he was part of the Ian Gillan Band. He participated in the Jon Lord live album, Windows in 1974. He was also in the group Fancy who had the hits "Touch Me" and a cover of Chip Taylor's "Wild Thing".

He also was a member of the band Forcefield (1987–1989) along with Tony Martin (Black Sabbath), Cozy Powell (Rainbow, Black Sabbath), Jan Akkerman and Neil Murray (Whitesnake, Black Sabbath).

He returned to sessions and then featured on former Rainbow vocalist, Graham Bonnet's album, Here Comes the Night in 1991.

In 2003 Fenwick recorded and toured with Yes guitarist Steve Howe as part of his band Steve Howe's Remedy. He appears on the live concert DVD of Steve Howe's Remedy Elements, having produced the scores for the entire band.

Fenwick produced Jo Jo Laine's girl group single "When The Boy's Happy" on Mercury Records under the name Jo Jo Laine & The Firm.

Personal life

Fenwick taught guitar and jazz grades at various colleges and schools in Britain, including Boston College, Lincolnshire and continues to teach to this day.

Discography

Solo
with Ian Gillan Band
Other projects

References

  1. ↑ "Last FM: The Ian Gillan Band". last.fm. Retrieved 2010-01-30.
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