the MIGHTY BLUE RIVERS and ME at the MARQUEE CLUB just recently moved to WARDOUR ST.

DEMON FUZZ was the brainchild of Paddy Corea. It was born
from his sojourn in Africa (Marocco)1968-69) The idea was to
blend all the musical influences & poly-rhythmic styles he had experienced, from Sax to Steelpan, from Jazz, Reggae, Classical,
Indian ragas, Suffie Arabic, Calypso, Blues, Ethiopian church
music, Ska, Kwela & African Highlife and the music
of the Joe Harriot-Shake Keane   INDO-JAZZ FUSIONS.
All these influences in my head synthesized into Demon Fuzz.
Now add two other people with similar influences,,  Roy Rhoden & Winston Joseph (our composers) and you'll understand why we were unique and how we came to literally construct a different style of music.
On top of that add  Clarence (Brooms) Crosdale,  Sleepy Jack Joseph and Godwin Lil' John who believed in our direction and you have the complete picture of the musical band DEMON FUZZ..All we wanted was a unique singer to FIT this style.. We found him in  Selwyn (Smokey) Adams.  
We were a different type of Black band (yes, afro centric) and
concious of it. Hence a white writer, thinking he was insulting
us, called us "7 arrogant spooks", (thank you sir, thats our
badge of pride, which you didnt understand) ..

DEMON FUZZ became the prototype of a new musical genre
in England, baptized as AFRO-ROCK by Paddy Corea and the
legendary music man Eddie Grant (Pyramid & Ice rcds).
We used different time signatures 6/8, 4/4, 3/4, 5/4, and
several types of rhythms and different movements in
the same piece of music. We used steel band bass riffs and
blues harmonies in some passages, African drumming and
early Rap ( OUR WORLD TODAY & BIAFRA)
We inspired a new breed of bands after 1969, CYMANDE, SPEAR,
PROTOPLASM, BATTI-MAMSELLE, NOIR, the NEW-TONICS,
ASSAGAI and even OSIBISA.

The first album. Afreaka, A hymn to Mother Earth.