Ton (Born 6 August 1952) got his first piano lessons from his aunt at the age of six. He wasn’t very eager to learn and play by the book. Instead, he preferred to improvise and play his own stuff. At the age of seventeen he left school to study classical double bass at the Hilversum [...]
BORN TO CLASSICAL PIANO TEACHERS in 1953 in Virginia, Kit Watkins studied piano at home from ages 5 through 13. During his teen years, Kit was drawn to rock music and click for larger became a driving force behind a series of local bands, playing organ, synthesizer, and flute, as well as singing lead. By [...]
From Wikipedia
David Paton (born 29 October 1949, Edinburgh, Scotland) is a bass and guitar player, most notably with three different bands: Pilot, Alan Parsons Project, and Camel. He has also worked as a solo artist, session musician, and sometime vocalist.
In the Eighties David was well-known for his work with Elton John in studio albums and [...]
The following are guestbook entries on the Camel Productions website.
Best wishes and come back to good health. You have to … for yourself and for all of us…
Pawel Strag
Mielec, Poland
I really hope Andy will get well soon!! He’s one of the greatest guitar players out there, a huge inspiration to me. When they played Ice [...]
Born
September 28th, 1952 – Epsom (England)
Bands
Brew (1968-69), Camel (1971-83), Marillion (1983), Various bands including those of Stoffer Blegvad, Jeremy Harrington, Viv McAuliffe) mid-1980’s, Skaboosh! (1987-88), Mark Hewins’ FF, (1990) Going Going (1990), Caravan Of Dreams (1991-94), Mirage (1994) Bevis Frond, (1994-2002) Yukio Yung, (Terry Burrows, 1995-1999) Steve Adams Band (2002)
History
From his schooldays, Andy’s sole ambition [...]
Richard S Sinclair (born 6 June 1948 in Canterbury, England) is a progressive rock bassist, guitarist and vocalist who has been a member of several bands of the Canterbury scene.
He played guitar (and occasionally sang) in the root Canterbury band Wilde Flowers before going on to be a founding member of Caravan, switching to bass [...]
Andrew Latimer (17 May 1947, Guildford, Surrey) is an English musician and the lone remaining original member of the progressive rock band Camel. He is mainly a guitarist and singer, but also a flautist and keyboardist.
Latimer’s guitar playing style is melodic, elegant and emotional and is frequently favorably compared to that of David Gilmour of [...]
Pete Bardens (June 19, 1944 – January 22, 2002) was one of the founding members of the British progressive rock group Camel, playing keyboards. Born in Westminster, South London, England, he often played the mellotron and synthesizer while working with the band, and wrote the majority of the songs while he was there (usually along [...]
From The Sunday Times
October 12, 2008
By Jeremy Clarkson
The London Symphony Orchestra is a tribute band. It simply turns up and plays music written by someone else
Any slim hope we might have had of a Pink Floyd reunion tour was dashed recently by the death of the keyboard player Rick Wright. Oh, sure, the remaining members [...]
Reproduced from the Camel Productions’ Website
Andrew’s progress, 320 days post transplant…
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Once again, it has been a long time since our last post, but this time it’s all good [...]
