Judge Smith

(b.1948) England, Chris Judge Smith dropped Chris from his name and in 1967 co-founded [B][I]Van Der Graaf Generator[/B][/I]. He played the drums until [B][I]Guy Evans[/B][/I] joined the band after which he provided backing vocals and "played" assorted gadgets including a typewriter. He left the band in 1968 and since then has worked on his solo career including writing songs for his own solo albums, musicals, opera's, directing a short film and working on the music for the TV show [B][I]Not The Nine O'clock News[/B][/I]. He also developed a new form of narrative rock music called [B][I]Songstory[/B][/I] in order to [I]'fulfil the personal need I felt to find a new and artistically satisfying way to tell extended stories using words and music'[/I] and since 2000 released three pieces of music under the 'Songstory' tag featuring performances by many well known and talented musicians as [I]Peter Hammill, David Jackson, Hugh Banton, John Ellis, Lene Lovich, René van Commenée, Max Hutchinson, Arthur Brown, Michael Ward-Bergeman, Ricardo Odriozola[/I] and many others.