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Cal Batchelor

The legendary Cal Batchelor and band is a remarkable team of veteran performers. Cal's scorching guitar is "manic & meaty, slick & slippery, uptown & upbeat". They played a "sizzlin', deliciously-mixed bag of blues, R&B, rock and ballads"

You'll dig this high-energy, rock-solid belt of blues by veteran soul-surgeons Cal Batchelor and band. In fact, electric blues doesn't get much better than this. Especially if your patrons are in high-gear, party mode.

Cal has known success since his first band he started in Victoria in the sixties. The Band -Take Four, played many of the Victoria clubs including the Empress Ball Room, Club Tango, The Scope, Uncle Jake's, The A Go-Go. They shared the stage with Seattle bands, The Wailers and Don & The Good Times & also opened for Gary Lewis & The Playboys at the Memorial Arena.

Moving to London, England in 1969. Cal's own remarkable background in the British rock scene is a wealth of music history.

After arriving in England, Cal was a founding member (and main songwriter) with Quiver. This band gigged "almost every square inch" of Britain (including Northern Ireland), and toured Germany, France, Holland, Belgium and Scandinavia. They recorded two albums and toured with The Who, Pink Floyd and Marc Bolen.

They opened for Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Deep Purple, Flying Burrito Brothers, Rory Gallagher, Tony William's Lifeline and many others. Bands which opened for Quiver included Nazareth, Thin Lizzy, America and Slade !

Cal played guitar, sang backups and toured Britain with Kevin Ayres, a founding member of Soft Machine. He also played on an album of Kevin's.

With Long John Baldry, Cal did many a London gig, and toured Britain with Rod Stewart & The Small Faces. Later, he gigged extensively in London and toured Europe with Ronnie Lane (a founder of The Small Faces). On Ronnie's album See Me, Cal was one of the guitarists, along with Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton and Henry MaCulloch.

Other U.K. recording sessions included Al Stewart, Ian Matthews' Southern Comfort, Carol Grimes, Gary Farr, Curtis Maldoon, and Cochise.

Now based in Vancouver, Cal is a regular performer at many Western Canadian Venues under his own name. Playing his own distinctive brand of rock he has played many clubs with more continuity than most blues acts in the area. Including the Yale Hotel, Grandville Island Blues Festival, benefit concerts and Blues Cruises in the English Bay Area.

Cal has released albums of his own. One "Live at the Rock Shop" and his last album, Now Playing, is a masterpiece. Cal is superb singing and playing guitar, and the band is also great. Superb Hammond work, and some tracks have a guest horn section.

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Cal Batchelor