Martin John Pugh is a British
guitarist
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who came to prominence after joining
blues-rock band
Steamhammer in 1968, staying with that band through 5 years and 4 albums. The debut Steamhammer album, also known as ''
Steamhammer'', was released in 1969 and yielded a minor hit record in Europe, "Junior's Wailing". Pugh also played on the first
Rod Stewart
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solo album, ''
An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down
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'' (aka ''The Rod Stewart Album'').
Following the dissolution of Steamhammer in 1973, Pugh and Steamhammer bassist
Louis Cennamo
joined up with former
the Yardbirds vocalist
Keith Relf (who had played with Cennamo in
Renaissance and had helped produce the final Steamhammer LP) and drummer
Bobby Caldwell to form
Armageddon in 1975. According to liner notes of a CD re-release of their only album on the
Repertoire Records label in 1999, drug problems interfered with the band's work ethic - although the record had received favorable reviews and significant radio airplay upon its release. Their demise was finalized after the untimely death of Relf in May 1976.
While he appears to have retired from music after 1975, he did emerge to play guitar (alongside Geoff Thorpe of
Vicious Rumors) on studio sessions in
Seattle with
Hawaii-based rock & roll band,
7th Order
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on their debut CD, "The Lake of Memory" - released on the Big Island Sounds label in 2007.
7th Order - "The Lake of Memory"
References
External links
Matin Pugh
on Rate Your Music
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
English blues guitarists
English male guitarists
English rock guitarists
Blues rock musicians
Steamhammer (band) members
Armageddon (British band) members
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