Graeme Taylor
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Graeme Taylor is a British electric guitarist.
Taylor played lead guitar with 1970s medieval/rock band Gryphon
, and leading folk rock bands including the Albion Band and Home Service
. With Gryphon he had 5 best-selling LPs, and toured the U.S.A., supporting Yes at Madison Square Gardens, and the Mahavishnu Orchestra at the Houston Astrodome.
Taylor played a major role in the creation and performance of the music for The Mysteries
at the National Theatre
in 1977 a production - to a text adapted by the poet Tony Harrison
- that was revived in 1999, with Taylor in the role of Musical Director, Arranger and Composer of additional music.
Having spent many years playing guitars in the pit orchestras of many West End
Musicals
, Taylor is now a member of the touring bands for both John Tams
and Rolf Harris
, and runs his own studio in South London.
Taylor played lead guitar with 1970s medieval/rock band Gryphon
Gryphon (band)
Gryphon were a British progressive rock band of the 1970s, best known for their unusual Medieval sound and instrumentation.-Career:Multi-instrumentalist Richard Harvey and his fellow Royal College of Music graduate Brian Gulland, a woodwind player, began the group as an all-acoustic ensemble that...
, and leading folk rock bands including the Albion Band and Home Service
Home Service
Home Service are a British folk rock group, formed in late 1980 from a nucleus of musicians who had been playing in Ashley Hutchings' Albion Band. Their career is generally agreed to have peaked with the album Alright Jack, which is usually considered one of the finest products of the electric folk...
. With Gryphon he had 5 best-selling LPs, and toured the U.S.A., supporting Yes at Madison Square Gardens, and the Mahavishnu Orchestra at the Houston Astrodome.
Taylor played a major role in the creation and performance of the music for The Mysteries
The Mysteries (play)
The Mysteries is a version of the medieval English mystery plays presented at London's National Theatre in 1977. The cycle of three plays tells the story of the Bible from the creation to the last judgement....
at the National Theatre
Royal National Theatre
The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...
in 1977 a production - to a text adapted by the poet Tony Harrison
Tony Harrison
Tony Harrison is an English poet and playwright. He is noted for controversial works such as the poem V and Fram, as well as his versions of ancient Greek tragedies, including the Oresteia and Hecuba...
- that was revived in 1999, with Taylor in the role of Musical Director, Arranger and Composer of additional music.
Having spent many years playing guitars in the pit orchestras of many West End
West End theatre
West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
Musicals
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
, Taylor is now a member of the touring bands for both John Tams
John Tams
John Tams is an English actor, singer, songwriter, composer and musician.- Folk musician :John Tams was a member of Derbyshire folk group Muckram Wakes in the 1970s, then worked with Ashley Hutchings as singer and melodeon-player on albums including Son of Morris On, and as a member of the...
and Rolf Harris
Rolf Harris
Rolf Harris, CBE, AM is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, composer, painter and television personality.Born in Perth, Western Australia, Harris was a champion swimmer before studying art. He moved to England in 1952, where he started to appear on television programmes on which he drew the...
, and runs his own studio in South London.