Sopwith Camel - Frantic Desolation

Excerpts from interview by the with lead guitarist/keyboard artist Nandi Devam (fka Terry MacNeil): “When I was 9, I memorized Beethoven’s ’Moonlight Sonata’ and played it for a school recital. You could say that was the first project I was involved in. That would have been 1953. When my family moved to Germany so my father could work for the Army as a Crafts Director in 1959, teaching the soldiers jewelry- making (to keep them off the streets), I got interested in classical guitar, having heard Andre’ Segovia’s albums at home and having seen him perform in Washington D.C. before we left. I started taking classical guitar lessons from German-speaking-only instructors in Augsburg and the next year in Kaiserslautern. I learned a few pieces that Segovia had played and played two of them in a variety show at our High School. “The Camel was the longest project that I was ever involved in. From its inception in 1966, writing songs with Peter Kraeme