Biografia
Not too many people remember Splinter, which is a shame on a number of counts.
For starters, their sound - an amalgam of mainstream electric rock with pop and folk elements - was intrinsically satisfying and made them one of the more pleasing groups of the mid-Seventies.
For another, they were one of the few genuinely bright discoveries to come out of the Beatles' orbit in 1970, when - as part of The Elastic Oz Band sometimes billed as Bill Elliott & The Elastic Oz Band - he'd worked with John Lennon on the single Do The Oz, recorded to raise money and enlist support for the underground "Oz" Magazine, which was being suppressed in England.
William (Bill) Elliott and Robert J. (Bob) Purvis: the two singers, who harmonized very attractively together, hooked up with George Harrison just as the latter was setting up his own Dark Horse Records label. That ill-starred venture coincided with Harrison's suffered 1974 US tour and the release of his Dark Horse album: ironically enough, Splinter's debut LP and single were better received by those who heard them than Harrison's own album - ex-Beatle guitarist lavished more attention on Splinter's LP The Place I Love than evidently did on his own solo album.
Bob Purvis is indeed a gifted composer and Bill Elliott's vocalizing recalls John Lennon's best moments. Splinter's harmonizing brings to mind memories of the finer massed vocal sections of George's majestic All Things Must Pass. Harrison's overdubbed guitars, percussions and keyboards were all over the album, along with Klaus Voormann's bass and some Billy Preston's piano and organ. Harrison appeared throughout the album under various guises: Hari Georgeson, P. Roducer and Jai Raj Harisein.
The Splinter's debut album was followed by other astonishing LPs: Harder To Live, Two Man Band - both recorded under the Dark Horse Records label at FPSHOT (Friar Park Studio Henley on Thames… Harrison home studio!) - Streets At Night and Splinter - the latter published as Sail Away in Japan, were they always had a large audience any time.
Spliter split in 1984. In recent years Bob Purvis has re-emerged as a performer and composer, doing charity work for a British "Cancer Research Charity".
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