The Band

The Story of Dr Big Love

Burning piano

Who is he?

It's all a bit of a mystery really. Hard to tell how old he is. Hard to tell where he came from. Once he said he was from

Louisiana, another time from Newcastle in England. He sleeps in the greenwood, the ditch and swanky hotels where obsequious doormen nod their heads in recognition and sucky-up valets carry his battered case. Says he's a doctor of broken hearts. Says he can sell you a cast iron cure for a cast iron hangover. Says he blew in on a warm Moroccan wind.

The man's a damned liar and that's the truth of it!

But when it gets a little swampy, when the light gets a little low, when the girl in the corner with the upside down smile stares into the melting ice of a drunken glass, when the sad-old young boy closes his eyes and dreams of Jennifer who once was, when the brave boys with nowhere to go came roaring in... then the Doctor weaves an enchantment, pours a modest potion, and conjures up the spirit.

Desert

And we remember how it once was and how it will ever be.

 

Portrait of the Band

Dr Big Love Music

It is rock music but a kind of swampy brew version. The essence is: spirit, love and liberation, in the burning belief this would make the world a better place. It isn't really like anything else.

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The Bishop

No-one is quite sure when "The Bishop" actually became "The Bishop".

It's one of those off-hand comments that seems to have stuck.

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Steve Bonham

Steve Bonham is guilty of having written most of the songs for Dr Big Love.

He plays all sorts of guitars, although recently has shown a great fondness for a filthy electric sound...

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Tim Gadsby

Tim is part of the foundation of the sound of Dr Big Love.

His driving bass is often at the heart of our music.

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Ben Adcock

Ben is the drummer for Dr Big Love and another foundation of our sound.

Covering the range from wild, frenetic solos to gentle, simmering patterns, he keeps us on course.

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Sam Carter

Sam is our hard working backing vocalist, who occasionally gets to step forward to take the lead.

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