Kim Gardner
| Kim Gardner | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Christopher Gardner |
| Born |
27 January 1948 Dulwich, London |
| Died | 24 October 2001 (aged 53) Los Angeles, California |
| Instruments | Bass guitar |
| Years active | 1960s–2001 |
| Associated acts |
Badger Ashton, Gardner & Dyke The Birds The Creation |
Kim Gardner (27 January 1948 in Dulwich, London – 24 October 2001 in Los Angeles) was an English musician.
He was part of the British Invasion of the 1960s, and recorded more than thirty albums during his music career.
Kim Gardner and his neighbour Ronnie Wood shared a passion for both art and music. They began drawing and playing music together as a teenagers in Yiewsley, England. From their late teens and onward, the focus was primarily on music.
While attending art college together in 1964 Gardner and Wood met Tony Munroe, Ali McKenzie and Pete McDaniels and formed The Thunderbirds. They were signed to Decca Records at the end of that year, and in 1965 released several singles, including "No Good Without You Baby" and "Leaving Here", after a name change from The Thunderbirds to The Birds.
In late 1965 the Birds left Decca to sign with Reaction Records, but Gardner and Wood quit the band and joined The Creation, a mod band popular in Europe, especially Germany. In 1967, Gardner recorded some tracks with Jon Lord, Ronnie Wood and Twink under the name Santa Barbera Machine Head, released on Blues Anytime Vol. 3. In 1968 at the dissolution of the Creation, Kim Gardner joined with Tony Ashton and Roy Dyke to form Ashton, Gardner & Dyke, a jazz-rock band.
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