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Steamhammer

Band, 1968-1973 GB, Worthing
Rock and Blues

Steamhammer was a blues-rock band from Worthing, England, whose origins began with the blues. The band was founded in 1968 by Martin Quittenton (guitar) and Kieran White (vocals, guitar, harmonica). The first stable lineup consisted of Quittenton, White, Martin Pugh (guitar), Steve Davy (bass), and 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 Louis Cennamo replaced Davy for the final LP, "Speech" - which was more experimental progressive involving extended instrumentals. Pugh and Cennamo later formed Armageddon (6) with Yardbirds vocalist Keith Relf and Johnny Winter and Captain Beyond drummer Bobby Caldwell (4) - Cennamo rejoined his Renaissance (4) bandmates in Illusion (24), and Pugh recorded with Hawaii's 7th Order.

Members

	Steve Jolliffe fl *1949 GB
	Michaël Rushton dr *1950 FR
	Martin Quittenton g 1945-2015 GB
	Pete Sears b, key *1948 GB
	Martin Pugh acg, eg *2001 GB
	Louis Cennamo b, eb *1946 GB
	Kieran White voc, h, acg US
	Steve Davy eb
	Michael Rushton
	John Lingwood dr, perc *1951 GB
	Mick Bradley perc, dr 1947-1972 GB
	Garth Watt-Roy voc, g GB