ROB TOWNSEND

Joined right after the name change "Family", and played drums on every album. Born July 7, 1947, Leicester.

Before Family, was in Leicester bands The Beatniks, Broodly Hoo, and Legay.

Broodly Hoo had been managed by a local company ran by Charlie Whitney.

A Feb. 1998 Leicester Mercury article describes Legay as "Tamla fans in make-up with songs like Vacuum Cleaner Mother and Steam Driven Banana who released a single on Fontana Records in the heady days of hippy. The band evolved into another called Gypsy, and last year Legay founder member Legay Rogers died of asbestosis just before Christmas."

Medicine Head - Thru a Five (1974) also with Tony Ashton

The Scaffold - Sold Out (1975) with Zoot Money and others

. Kevin Ayers' Yes We Have No Mañanas... (June 1976), Rainbow Takeaway (April 1978) and BBC In Concert session (10/23/76) with Andy Summers, Zoot Money, Charlie McCracken (later in Axis Point).

In Summer 1998, Hux Records released Kevin Ayers BBC recordings with Rob Townsend in the band. Too Old To Die Young is a 2CD set which reissues a 1972 BBC In Concert with a March '75 and a September '76 session. This latter lineup includes Andy Summers, George Zoot Money, Bill Evans, Charlie McCracken, and Rob Townsend

Axis Point (1978-1980)

Dance Band's Fancy Footwork (1980)

Eddie Hardin's Circumstantial Evidence (1982) with Ray Fenwick, Roger Glover, Pete York and Ronnie James Dio

The Manfreds

Presently in The Blues Band with ex-Manfred Mann singer Paul Jones (also a part-time actor in the UK).

 

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