Cliff Davies (musician)
British drummer (1948–2008)
Cliff Davies (c. 1948 – 13 April 2008) was a British drummer.
Career
If
After receiving tuition from pipe band drummer Jock Cree and playing local gigs in the Aldershot area, in the early 70s Davies went on to join the Roy Young Band and then the second incarnation of the jazz-rock band If from 1972 to 1975. He played on four albums by the band and contributed many of their songs.
Ted Nugent
Following If's break-up, Davies joined American hard rock guitarist Ted Nugent from 1975 to 1982 as drummer and co-producer of all Nugent's recordings over those years, in collaboration with Lew Futterman, who had also produced If.
In 1975, Nugent dropped The Amboy Dukes name and the band became The Ted Nugent Band. The other members did not want to be considered a backing band and one of the conditions of Derek St. Holmes joining them was it would be treated like a collective band. They toured as The Ted Nugent Band and, in 1975, after Davies joined the band on drums, they went into the studio to do their first album, which at the time was unnamed, for Epic Records. Davies was instrumental in organizing and producing the album (and provided lead vocals on the track "You Make Me Feel Right at Home"), which later went multi-platinum. He was never given full credit for producing this album.
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