The Craig - I Must Be Mad

The Craig is a Birmingham band from the mid 60s. The band's drummer was Carl Palmer, later of prog-rock superstars, Emerson, Lake & Palmer. The other members were lead vocalist Jeff Brown, Richard King, guitar, and Len Cox, bass.
According to Carl's official website http://www.carlpalmer.com/carl-bio.html, the band was called the King Bees when he joined at the age of 15, in 1965. At what stage the name changed to Craig and the reasoning behind the moniker, is not revealed. Both Craig singles came out in 1966 (on Fontana) and Carl was not with the band for long, as he shifted his sticks to Chris Farlowe and the Thunderbirds at the age of 16. Another member of Craig has been listed elsewhere as Richard Pannell. As the name is not mentioned by Carl, Richard possibly joined the line-up after he left.
In 1968, Jeff Brown became vocalist with Galliard, which according to alexgitlin.com also included Richard Pannell. The site has a photo of six musicians from the 12-piece line-up, although individual members are not identified.
Genres: psychedelic, garage rock, psychedelic rock, mod, 60s

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• garage
• rock
• 60s

[turksezen]

GREAT!!!!!!  Always loved this....Always will....

[TwinTwangSD]

@TOBERT001 Very interesting piece of history, totally dig the Misunderstood too. Shame Karl Palmer ended up making music that was not danceable.

[TwinTwangSD]

This song is instrumental in converting modern HEAVYISTS over to the sixties--it's like bacon to vegetarians.

[falkirkfirmm]

freakbeat starts at 1:32

[amigagames]

The one doing the vocals: Geoff Brown, would later go on and create the company U.S Gold.

[paintedship]

@ljoe9088 yes I'm sure

[TOBERT001]

This is a great record. TOTALLY MANIC.

I remember reading an article Julian Cope wrote on British singles of the 60's.

He said,"Even The Misunderstood are upstaged by the mania of The Craig's 'I Must Be Mad'.... the drummer frantically overplaying to make up for his lack of timekeeping". HO HO. It's Karl Palmer no less.....time to lay off the drugs,Julian. 

[ljoe9088]

@paintedship WOW!! no way!! are you sure? if you're right then the who ripped them off!

[paintedship]

@ljoe9088  this came out a year before that

[ljoe9088]

I can see for miles and miles

I can see for mi...

LOL!!