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Graham Patrick "Kirby" Gregory, often credited simply as Kirby (born 11 March 1953 in Wallingford, Berkshire, England) is an English musician best known for playing with rock bands Curved Air and Stretch.
Actualmente, Curved Air está formado por Sonja Kristina (voces y guitarra acústica), Kirby Gregory (guitarra), Paul Sax (violín), Florian Pilkington Miksa (batería), Chris Harris (guitarra y bajo) y Robert Norton (teclados).
- 1970-presente
Kirby Gregory - Guitar player Curved Air When I was seven years old I discovered the guitar and fell in love with the idea of being a guitarist. Ten years later I moved to London and joined Armada, a jazz-rock band featuring the jazz legend Sammy Rimmington.
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Sisyphus
The group evolved out of the band Sisyphus, who played one of their early gigs in the ballroom of Leith Hill Place, Surrey for a masked ball and which was formed by Darryl Way (who studied violin at Dartington College and the Royal College of Music) and Francis Monkman, a member of the Royal Academy of Music. While wandering through an outlet store of the Orange Music Electronic Company, Monkman was intrigued by the sound of Way testing his first electrically amplified violin, and the two "go...
From formation to first breakup
After a series of intensive rehearsals in Martin's family home in Gloucestershire, the five-piece launched a well-received U.K. tour, supporting Black Sabbath at one point. The band toured with their own sound engineer, Shaun Davies (later the producer for Way's post-Curved Air band, Wolf), which allowed them to achieve a better on-stage sound mix than other groups with unusual combinations of instruments. Shaun's father, Guy Davies, made the perspex violins used by Way and later Jobson. Curv...
The new Curved Air
Having retained a good working relationship, Sonja Kristina and Mike Wedgwood formed a new band with Kirby Gregory (electric guitar), Eddie Jobson (keyboards, violin), and Jim Russell (drums). Jobson had come from a band called Fat Grapple, who had been one of Curved Air's support acts on tour.The new musicians brought more direct rock energy, with young prodigy Eddie Jobson, influenced by Curved Air, kept the classical blend strongly in the mix. On the suggestion of manager Clifford Davis, t...
Members
Current members 1. Sonja Kristina– vocals (1970–1976, 1984, 1988, 1990, 2008–present) 2. Chris Harris – bass (2008–present) 3. Robert Norton – keyboards (2009–present) 4. Andy Tween – drums (2017–present) 5. Grzegorz Gadziomski - violin (2019–present) 6. Kirby Gregory– guitar (1972–1973, 2013–2016, 2019–present) Former members 1. Darryl Way– violin, keyboards, backing vocals, guitars, drum machine (1970–1972, 1974–1976, 1984, 1988, 1990, 2008–2009) 2. Francis Monkman– keyboards, guitar (1970–...
- 1970–1973, 1974–1976, 1984, 1988, 1990, 2008–present
- London, England
Stretch were a 1970s British rock band that grew from the collaboration between vocalist Elmer Gantry (real name Dave Terry) and guitarist Kirby Gregory (real name Graham Gregory). Gantry had been the frontman of Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, and Kirby had been a member of Curved Air.
- United Kingdom
- Kirby Gregory, Elmer Gantry, Jim Scadding, Justin Hildreth
- 1974–79, 2007–present
25 de oct. de 2011 · Frontman Elmer Gantry (a pseudonym taken by Dave Terry from a Sinclair Lewis novel about a hellfire preacher) and guitarist Graham "Kirby" Gregory formed Stretch on their ignominious return to...
15 de ago. de 2023 · There has been no official word on any line-up changes on the band's Twitter or Facebook pages, so the current status of most recent guitarist Kirby Gregory remains unknown.
