Far Out Magazine has posted an article on seminal UK Jazz-rocker Graham Bond, notable for leading a band through whose ranks came such legendary 60’s musicians as Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, and John McLaughlin AND for being an outspoken, very visible proponent of Thelema. It begins:
When we talk about influential artists from the 1960s, a lot of the regulars who come up include the likes of Eric Clapton, The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix. However, many prog-rockers and artists interested in the keyboard, such as Elton John, Rick Wakeman and Steve Winwood, would attest that one of their biggest influences was Graham Bond.
It took two days for police to identify the body of Graham Bond, and even then, they were only able to do so because they were able to check his fingerprints. The musician had thrown himself under a London Tube as a concoction of substance abuse, emotional trouble, and a fluctuating career proved too much. Before his grizzly passing, Bond was a prolific artist who isn’t spoken about enough.
Read the whole article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/rocker-who-claimed-illegitimate-son-of-aleister-crowley/.
And here’s one past posting on this blog on Bond: https://zeroequalstwo.net/graham-bond-the-grooviest-thelemite-you-never-heard-of/.
If you “Search” this blog for “Graham Bond” you’ll find multiple posting, including footage of him chanting “IAO”
