Drummer Colin Allen on playing with Bob Dylan, Mick Taylor, Stone the Crows, and Andy Summers, plus Wings covering his songs, and his drum kit appearing on Lennon's "Imagine" LP.
Hello and welcome to the Boston Harold Podcast. My special guest today is drummer Colin Allen, who has played with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Stone the Crows, and Focus, among many others. Along with guitarist Mick Taylor (The Bluesbreakers, the Rolling Stones), keyboardist Ian McLagan (Rod Stewart & the Faces, the Small Faces, the Rolling Stones), and bassist/songwriter Gregg Sutton (Andy Kaufman, later Lone Justice), Mr. Allen was a member of Bob Dylan's band during his 1984 tour of Europe. "Real Live" 1984 US LP inner sleeve (Credit: Sony via Searching For A Gem ) Since one of the songs from the 1984 tour, the previously unreleased "Enough Is Enough," was included in the recent box set, Springtime in New York: 1980-1985, Bootleg Series Vol. 16 , I invited Mr. Allen to be interviewed for my blogcast page, and since he no longer does video interviews, he graciously agreed to do it by email. Mr. Allen spent over six years writing his autobiograph...