Bad news for all of us!
Great violin and keyboard player Simon House, a true giant of the underground, old collaborator of the Third Ear Band (1971-1974), passed away yesterday at 76 (the bad news HERE and HERE or HERE).
A founder with guitarist Tony Hill and bass player Peter Pavli of the seminal band High Tide at the end of Sixties, he was a permanent member of the Hawkwind, between 1974 and 1978, playing with David Bowie on his albums "Stage" (1978) and "Lodger" (1979).
Apart two solo albums (1994 and 2000), one with Rod Goodway (2002), and two with Spiral Realms (2004 and 2005), he worked with a lot of musicians including Robert Calvert, Japan, David Sylvian, Thomas Dolby, Mike Olfield, Judy Dyble, Nik Turner, Adrian Shaw, Nektar, Spirits Burning, Magic Muscle...
Through Glen Sweeney, I met him two times in London, where he lived, and he seemed to me a shy and reserved person, interested only in playing music and refractory to any self-indulgence and protagonism typical of the rock environment.
We later did an interview by phone, but he was very tight-lipped and not very willing to recall the past.... You can read it here:
https://ghettoraga.blogspot.com/2010/01/brief-phone-conversation-with-simon.html
Other files in this Archive related to Simon House:
https://ghettoraga.blogspot.com/2012/03/italians-like-weird-stuff-old-interview.html
https://ghettoraga.blogspot.com/2020/09/extraordinarly-amazing-teb-tv.html
https://ghettoraga.blogspot.com/2024/11/four-rare-1972-photos-of-simon-house-on.html
https://ghettoraga.blogspot.com/2019/10/peter-pavli-interviewed-on-its.html
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