John Verity Plays Fifestock 2016. Backstage at the Green Hotel Kinross on Saturday 19th March.
Tickets £15. Buy Tickets HERE.
“John Verity began his music career in the early 1960’s. Playing guitar in various local bands around his home town of Bradford, Yorkshire. He was offered a full time gig with a band which was backing various visiting US pop acts, as well as Decca Records UK acts when they toured. The earliest incarnations of the John Verity Band supported legends such as Hendrix, Mountain, Canned Heat and Janis Joplin. He was quickly signed up as the replacement for Argent’s Russ Ballard after Ballard quit the band in 1972. When Argent disbanded in 1976, John put together an outfit called Phoenix with bassist Jim Rodford (later to join The Kinks), then spent a few years producing, playing guitar or providing backing vocals for various acts including Motorhead, Ringo Starr, Russ Ballard, Brian Connolly, John Parr, BowWowWow and The Searchers amongst others. More solo albums followed, with Verity dividing his time between his solo career and recording and touring with Keith Emerson (ELP), Jools Holland, Mike Rutherford (Genesis), The Zombies and John Coghlan (ex-Status Quo). JV always said that live work was his first love and that holds as true today as ever. After playing the Cambridge Rock Festival in the summer of 2009 JV and the band went into the studio once more – The resulting recordings were released in April 2010: VERITY – A Phoenix Still Rising… yet another stage in JV’s amazing journey … “
John Verity Band
John Verity