Buddy Miles , DJLogic, Richie Lee, Phil Kramer, Curtis Watts at Tobacco Road, NY 2001 Part 7 Video produced by Larry Blumenstein Video Productions. Contact: LarryBlumenstein@aol.com, 917-817-2112. (Copyright 2001)) (c) —————————————————————– George Allen Miles, Jr. (September 5, 1947 — February 26, 2008), known as Buddy Miles, was an American rock and funk drummer, most known as a founding member of The Electric Flag in 1967, then as a member of Jimi Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys from 1969 through to January 1970. George Allen Miles was born in Omaha, Nebraska on September 5, 1947. He was known as a child prodigy, originally playing drums in his father, George Miles, Sr.’s, jazz band, The Bebops, beginning at age 12. Miles Sr. had played upright bass with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Dexter Gordon. In his teens Miles Jr. was often seen hanging out as well as recording at the Universal Promotions Corporation (UPC) recording studios, which later became Rainbow Recording Studios[ ] Miles was given the nickname “Buddy” by his aunt after the drummer Buddy Rich. Miles played in a variety of rhythm and blues and soul acts as a teenager, including Ruby & the Romantics, the Ink Spots, the Delfonics and Wilson Pickett. By 1967 he moved to Chicago where he formed the Electric Flag with guitarist Mike Bloomfield. Nick Gravenites was the vocalist on this (and also some other Bloomfield LP’s). The blues-soul-rock band made their …