770300A March: ELLIOTT MURPHY.
LP ‘Just A Story From America’ (CBS 81881). Producer and sound engineer:
Robin Geoffrey Cable. Recorded at Air Studios, Marquee Studios and
Audio
International (all in London), probably in late 1976.
- Rock Ballad (Elliott Murphy)
Line-up: MT (gtr)/Elliott Murphy (gtr, voc, harm)/Phil Collins
(dr)/Dave
Markee
(bass)/Peter Oxendale (p, org)/Nicky Harrison (recorder
arrangements)
770802A 2nd August: LITTLE FEAT. London, The Rainbow
Theatre, incl.
- A Apolitical Blues (Lowell George)
- Teenage Nervous Breakdown (Lowell George/Kibbee Martin Fyodor)
Line-up: MT (gtr)/Lowell George (gtr, voc)/Paul Barrere (gtr)/Kenny
Gradney
(bass)/Sam Clayton (perc)/Bill Payne (keyb)/Ritchie Hayward (dr)
Note: Officially released in 2022 (see 220729A).
770804A 4th August: LITTLE FEAT.
London, The Rainbow Theatre, incl.
- A Apolitical Blues (Lowell George)
- Teenage Nervous Breakdown (Lowell George/Kibbee Martin Fyodor)
Line-up: MT
(gtr)/Lowell George (gtr, voc)/Paul Barrere (gtr)/Kenny Gradney
(bass)/Sam Clayton (perc)/Bill Payne (keyb)/Ritchie Hayward (dr)
Note: Soundboard recording was
made by George Massenburg and Andy Bloch
with The Manor Mobile Unit. A Apolitical Blues was officially released
in 1978
(see 780210A).
The whole show was professionally filmed.
770900A Autumn: ALAN
MERRILL. London, Island's Basing Street Studios. Producers:
Alan Merrill and Jimmy Miller. Incl.
- Always Another Train (Alan Merrill/Terry Taylor/Jake Hooker)
- The Games People Play (Alan Merrill?) -title unsure; unreleased
Line-up ‘Games’: MT (gtr)/Alan Merrill (voc, bass)/Steve Winwood
(mandolin)/
& probably others
Line-up ‘Train’: MT (gtr)/Alan Merrill (voc, bass)/Terry Taylor
(gtr)/Steve
Gould (gtr, bvoc)/Steve Winwood (keyb)/Mike Driscoll (dr)/
Damalza (perc)/Oliver Tobias (bvoc)
770000A 1977: GERRY
RAFFERTY. Probably London, unidentified studio.
MT does session work for Gerry Rafferty. Unverified.