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Chris Spedding is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Roxy Music, Ginger Baker, Garland Jeffreys, Joan Armatrading and Chrissie Hynde. Those roots explain a lot about how Chris Spedding arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Dr. Feelgood, Dave Edmunds, NRBQ, Ian Dury and Tom Robinson Band, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Sex Pistols, The Vibrators, Robert Gordon, Nina Hagen and Tom Waits, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 45 connections around Chris Spedding, reaching back through Roxy Music and forward to Sex Pistols. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Christopher John Spedding is an English guitarist and record producer. In a career spanning more than 50 years, Spedding is best known for his studio session work. By the early 1970s, he had become one of the most sought-after session guitarists in England. Spedding has played on and produced many albums and singles. He has also been a member of eleven rock bands: the Battered Ornaments, Frank Ricotti Quartet, King Mob, Mike Batt and Friends, Necessaries, Nucleus, Ricky Norton, Sharks, Trigger, and the Wombles. In May 1976, Spedding also produced the first Sex Pistols recordings.
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Chris Spedding connections
Chris Spedding grew out of Roxy Music, Ginger Baker, Garland Jeffreys and Joan Armatrading, shares an orbit with Dr. Feelgood, Dave Edmunds, NRBQ and Ian Dury, went on to shape Sex Pistols, The Vibrators, Robert Gordon and Nina Hagen. 45 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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