THE MOCKINGBIRDS
At one point, I was planning to insert a biographical sketch of music historian and Bomp! Records founder Greg Shaw; but I decided against that, since the connection to Shaw really isn’t all that strong.
The reason I was considering that is that the Invisible Eyes is the last band that Greg Shaw signed to Bomp! Records before his untimely death in 2004 from complications of diabetes. But to quote Shaw himself after he once noted that the Mockingbirds included two future bandmembers of 10cc: “But they deserve to be known for more than just that.”
(December 2012)
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Many of the songs in the English Freakbeat Series were by musicians that became famous in later bands or in other contexts. For instance, the English Freakbeat, Volume 3 LP includes cuts by the Mockingbirds, a predecessor band to 10cc.
(March 2014/2)
