One Live Badger

The band

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 was co-founded by keyboardist

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 Tony Kaye

Tony Kaye (musician)

Tony Kaye is a British musician.Kaye was the original keyboard player for the progressive rock group Yes from 1968 to 1971, and rejoined Yes from 1983 to 1995...

 after he left Yes

Yes (band)

Yes are an English rock band who achieved worldwide success with their progressive, art, and symphonic style of rock music. Regarded as one of the pioneers of the progressive genre, Yes are known for their lengthy songs, mystical lyrics, elaborate album art, and live stage sets...

, with David Foster. Foster had been in The Warriors

The Warriors (British band)

The Warriors, also known as The Electric Warriors, were a British rock'n'roll, Beatles-inspired band of the early 1960s. While the band recorded a few singles with Decca Records, it is mostly remembered because many of its members later became successful musicians in the British progressive rock...

 with Jon Anderson

Jon Anderson

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 before Anderson co-founded Yes. Foster later worked with the band on Time and a Word

Time and a Word

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. Kaye had worked on a solo

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 project by Foster that was never released.

The pair found drummer

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 Roy Dyke

Roy Dyke

Roy Dyke , is a rock drummer noted for his playing with The Remo Four, Badger, and Ashton, Gardner and Dyke.He married Stacia Blake, a former dancer with Hawkwind...

, formerly of Ashton, Gardner & Dyke, and Dyke suggested Brian Parrish on guitar

Guitar

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. The new band signed to Atlantic Records

Atlantic Records

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Badger's first release was the live album

Live album

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, One Live Badger, co-produced

Record producer

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 by Jon Anderson and Geoffrey Haslam, and was taken from a show opening for Yes. In the progressive rock

Progressive rock

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 genre, five of the song

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s were co-written by the whole band, with a sixth by Parrish.

• 1. "Wheel of Fortune" - 7:50
• 2. "Fountain" - 7:22
• 3. "Wind of Change" - 7:15
• 4. "River" - 6:50
• 5. "The Preacher" - 3:59
• 6. "On the Way Home" - 7:39

White Lady

By 1974, the band had been reduced to Kaye and Dyke. They recruited bassist

Bassist

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, Kim Gardner

Kim Gardner

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, who had worked with Dyke in Ashton, Gardner & Dyke. Paul Pilnick, formerly of Stealers Wheel

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, joined on guitar, as did singer Jackie Lomax

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Lomax proceeded to turn them into the type of R&B

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/soul

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 band he had used on his solo album

Album

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s. The band became a vehicle for Lomax's songs and singing. During this period, they released one LP

Album

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, White Lady, on Epic Records

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, produced by Allen Toussaint

Allen Toussaint

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. All ten songs were written or co-written by Lomax. Guests on the album included Jeff Beck

Jeff Beck

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 (contributing a guitar solo

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 to the title track).

• 1. "Dream of You"
• 2. "Everybody, Nobody"
• 3. "Listen to Me"
• 4. "Don't Pull the Trigger"
• 5. "Just the Way It Goes"
• 6. "White Lady"
• 7. "Be With You"
• 8. "Lord Who Give Me Life"
• 9. "One More Dream to Hold"
• 10. "Hole Thing"

However, before the album's release, the band had split into two factions, with Lomax and Gardner leading a short-lived band called White Lady, before Lomax returned to a solo career.

"White Lady" b/w "Don't Pull the Trigger" was released as a single

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in May 1974.

External links

• Yescography entry for One Live Badger
• emusic biography