John Greves

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John Greves (born 27 October 1952 in Margate, Kent) is a British musician and record producer. Greves plays guitar and synthesisers and is also a composer and lyricist.

A founder member of Nova and later Ghost, Greves was a one time member of Robert Calvert’s Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters and after taking an early retirement from music in 1985 later rejoined the members of the original Hawkwind with whom he was involved in the early years to form Space Ritual in 1999. After touring and recording with S.R. for nearly six years and producing several albums, a DVD and an EP he again retired from live work to set up and run his own recording studio.

Although Greves’ musical interest began by playing drums in a dance combo at the age of 13 (and nearly getting expelled when caught playing in licensed premises) he later went on to experiment with electronic music several years before the invention of the first commercial synthesiser, by Robert Moog in 1971, by wiring up various items of laboratory equipment to amplifiers and tape recorders. He later used those techniques in playing with Hawkwind, but blighted with psychotic episodes following a period of recreational drug use he spent a time in St. Augustine’s Hospital, Chartham, (coincidentally at the same time as collaborator Robert Calvert was a patient there), and left the music business for several years.

Greves has collaborated with many bands over the years, most recently with Daddy Fantastic, The Mighty Tong and Steve Furlong in 2007

Discography:

· Love you and Leave You/Something Wicked This Way Comes (1984)
· The Holocaust (1984)
· Futurama/People in Love (1986)
· 2001 A Space Rock Odyssey (2001)
· The Greasy Truckers Party (2001)
· Live At Glastonbury And Guildford Festival (2002)
· Live At The Venusian Electric Ballroom In The Cygnus 5 Galaxy (2005)
· Sonic Savages (2005)
· Satiricon (2006)
· Things are Weird Lately/Interruptions/Going Out Drinking – with Daddy Fantastic (2007)
· Otherworld (2007)