Talk:Blind Faith

message: "Blind Faith" is indeed stylistically similar to Traffic and Cream, but neither of those bands were the bands of which its members began their professional careers!
Steve Winwood started in The Spencer Davis Group, and Eric Clapton started in the Yardbirds.
Pepe Verde
: Be bold and fix stuff like that. Alcuin 15:48, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't feel funny, that's the cool thing about this place.  A person's 'right' to edit depends solely on whether their intentions are good or not.  I recommend getting an account, tho, it does make a lot of things easier and spiffier.  Cheers.  Alcuin 02:51, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Stylistically similar to the bands of which its members began their professional careers, Traffic and Cream" 

message: I believe that the "spaceship" the girl is holding is the hood ornament from a Bel-Air.
:It's not a hood ornament. In my original contributed text, which has since been removed (to my displeasure), I explained the history of the space ship:
::The cover art was created by photographer Bob Seidemann, a personal friend and former flatmate of Clapton's who is primarily known for his photos of Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead. In the mid-1990s, in an advertising circular intended to help sell lithographic reprints of the famous album cover, he explained his thinking behind the image :
:::I could not get my hands on the image until out of the mist a concept began to emerge. To symbolize the achievement of human creativity and its expression through technology a space ship was the material object. To carry this new spore into the universe innocence would be the ideal bearer, a young girl, a girl as young as Shakespeare's Juliet. The space ship would be the fruit of the tree of knowledge and the girl, the fruit of the tree of life.
:::The space ship could be made by Mick Milligan, a jeweler at the Royal College of Art. The girl was another matter. If she were too old it would be cheesecake, too young and it would be nothing. It was the beginning of the transition from girl to woman, that is what I was after. That temporal point, that singular flare of radiant innocence. Where is that girl?
::Seidemann wrote that he approached a young girl reported to be 14 years old on the London Tube about modeling for the cover and eventually met with her parents, but that she proved too old for the effect he wanted. Instead, the model used was her younger sister, who was reported to be 11 years old. Her modeling fee, according to Seidemann, was "a young horse" purchased for her by band manager Robert Stigwood.
:Zigamorph 16:59, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  All that info is there about the spaceship but just in the album page Blind Faith (album) and I just wrote a brief synposis of the info because I didn't want the two pages to have the same info, the album page focus more on the album/album art and band page more on the band. - Patman2648 04:42, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The Spaceship In the Controversial Album

message: In light of the extensive editing I've done here, I thought a few words of explanation might be appreciated. As I was reading through this section, I couldn't help but be struck by the serious need for punctuation and grammatical fixes. (I am a published writer/editor, and have a good deal of experience doing this sort of thing.) I've done my very best to retain as much as possible of the original wording, style, etc., while improving the clarity, and strengthening the coherence and structure of each of the paragraphs. Cgingold 12:20, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Your edits have been very productive and much needed, no need to explain and it'd be much appreciated if would continue to update and fix the errors associated with the page. Thank you and keep up the good work. - Patman2648 19:03, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, it's good to know you appreciate the work. BTW, I've got a question for you: whose basement was it in Surrey?-I think it was Clapton's, but it's not clear from the wording of the sentence -- it could actually go either way. Cgingold 00:53, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

text: It was Clapton's basement at his home there and continue the great work. - Patman2648 06:09, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A note re edits to "Formation and early history" 

message: There's a note at the top of this article:
*Blind Faith were (!--DO NOT change "were" to "was", it's grammatically incorrect--)
I wonder if this is correct. Blind Faith is a group, which is thus identified as a unit.  According to the Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition, "A noun that is singular in construction takes a singular verb when it is used as a subject...." But perhaps this is a difference between American and British usage.  Does anyone have an explanation? Toyalla 18:57, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Your educated guess was quite right. In British usage, "group nouns" (for lack of a better term) are treated as though they were in fact plural nouns. Takes a little getting used to for us Yanks. :) But given that it's a British group, I think their preference takes precedence. Cgingold 20:05, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you cite that with a legitmate source? --Bentonia School (talk) 14:28, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

text: Thank you for teaching me something. If it's a British group, we can certainly stick with British usage. But Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five is the first hip hop group inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! Toyalla 04:59, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was or Were? 

message: I disagree with the statement in the article that states Blind Faith helped to pioneer the blues/rock fusion. Before Blind Faith's album was released in 1969, there already had been a lot of bands that had been playing blues or 'blues-rock'. The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, The Yardbirds, John Mayhall and the Bluesbreakers, Cream, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Big Brother & Holding Company, and so on. Even Led Zeppelin's debut album, which is very heavy on blues, was released before Blind Faith's album. The statement in the article is simply misleading. --Bentonia School 17:58, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, it's been a while and no one had responded. I'm removing the part that says that Blind Faith helped to pioneer blues-rock. --Bentonia School (talk) 14:25, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

text: I don't know about "pioneered", but "popularised", certainly. LoveEverybodyUnconditionally (talk) 19:45, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blues/rock pioneers?