VdGG Profile: String Driven Thing I

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String Driven Thing I - III [January 1968 - summer 1973]
Personnel
Name Chris Adams: gtr, voc Pauline Adams: voc, perc Colin Wilson: bass, gtr John Mannion: gtr, voc Graham(e) Smith: violin, viola	ex [joined in 1971] [joined in 1972]	to String Driven Thing IV-V String Driven Thing IV-V String Driven Thing IV-V [left in 1972] String Driven Thing IV-V

Discography
1970 1970 1970 1972 1973	String Driven Thing Another Night / Say What You Like String Driven Thing String Driven Thing Circus / My Real Hero	Concord Concord Concord Charisma Charisma	single single lp lp single

History

They started as an acoustic tree part harmony trio in pubs of Glasgow inspired by the American West Coast music of the era (Mamas & Papas etc.). Their first self titled album on the independent Concord label was a limited edition of 100 copies only. Something of a collector's item nowadays! They signed with Charisma and made a new and quite different self titled album shortly after Graham arrived.

Graham Smith:
"...After leaving school he studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. On leaving the Academy he worked with various orchestras including the Hálle Orchestra with Sir John Barbirolli and the Scottish National Orchestra in which he was assistant leader..." (from the sleevenotes of Graham's first solo album Med Töfraboga/Touch of Magic, Iceland 1981)