The Mynd Collection

Most of the songs on this collection were recorded by the 3rd line-up of the band which was:  Bobby Surgeoner – lead guitar and vocals, Billy Surgeoner – keyboards and lead vocals, John Cockburn – bass guitar and vocals, Gordon Larkman – drums. Two of the songs, ‘I Am a River’ and ‘At This Point In Time’ were recorded at the home studio of Abbey Road sound engineer Peter Bown who had previously been engineer on Pink Floyd’s Piper at the Gates Of Dawn and The Beatles Let It Be albums.  This almost led to The Mynd signing to a subsidiary of EMI but alas, ’twas not to be. Most of the other songs here were recorded at a rehearsal room in Newton Aycliffe youth centre.  The songs The Spider and Every Mushroom Cloud were from a much earlier line-up, around 1972 or ’73, a 3 piece band with Billy on bass and vocals. These were pre mellotron songs. All of the songs here were written by Billy except for Communicate which was written by Bobby.