Sam Gopal (also called Sam Gopal’s Dream) was an underground British Psychedelic rock band. The band was named after its founder, Sam Gopal, born in Malaysia. From the age of seven, he played tabla, a northern Indian percussion instrument, which replaced drums in the band. Sam formed a new line-up which included vocalist-guitarist ‘Ian Willis’ (better known as Lemmy), Roger D’Elia and Phil Duke. The album Escalator was recorded in late 1968 and released in March 1969. (More from Wikipedia)
Sam Gopal formed a new line-up known simply as Sam Gopal that included as vocalist and guitarist Ian Willis, better known as Lemmy; this reorganized band released one album, Escalator in 1968. Lemmy later played bass guitar for Hawkwind and, in 1975, founded the pounding British heavy metal band called Motörhead.
After Sam Gopal broke up in 1968, Mick Hutchinson and Andy Clark recorded three albums under the name Clark-Hutchinson. Hutchinson also played guitar and bass guitar on the 1980 album Tennis by English singer-songwriter Chris Rea, who is best known in America for his 1978 hit “Fool (If You Think it’s Over)”. Along with Magic Dragon, Mick Hutchinson was later involved in the creation of the four-CD box set, The Woody Guthrie Story that was released in 2000.
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