Steamhammer

Steamhammer was a blues-rock band from Worthing, England, whose origins began with the blues. The band was founded in 1968 by [a=Martin Quittenton] (guitar) and [a=Kieran White] (vocals, guitar, harmonica). The first stable lineup consisted of Quittenton, White, [a=Martin Pugh] (guitar), [a=Steve Davy] (bass), and [a=Michael Rushton] (drums).

During the course of several line-up changes on, the band became more progressive and difficult to classify, first when joined by multi-instrumentalist Steve Jolliffe on their second album, and even more so when bassist [a=Louis Cennamo] replaced Davy for the final LP, "Speech" - which was more experimental progressive involving extended instrumentals.

Pugh and Cennamo later formed [a445543] with [a=Yardbirds] vocalist [a=Keith Relf] and [a=Johnny Winter] and [a=Captain Beyond] drummer [a=Bobby Caldwell (4)] - Cennamo rejoined his [a=Renaissance (4)] bandmates in [a=Illusion (24)], and Pugh recorded with Hawaii's [a=7th Order].