Artist Detailed Info: Shoot

Shoot was a rock band founded by Jim McCarty in 1972 after he left Renaissance. They drew on psychedelia, progressive rock and country.

They released one LP on EMI entitled On The Frontier in 1973.

Personnel:
Vocals, Keyboards & Percussion - Jim McCarty (previously of The Yardbirds, Renaissance, Together, Illusion, Stairway & Box Of Frogs)
Percussion - Craig Collinge (Manfred Mann's Chapter Three, Third World War)
Guitar - David Greene (Raw Material)
Bass - Bill Russell

Guests:
Horns - Lynn Dobson (Soft Machine, Nick Drake)
Horns - Bob Birtles
Pedal Steel Guitar, Dobro - BJ Cole
Piano - Jon Tout
Violin - Graham Preskitt

Jim put Shoot together following his departure in the summer of 1970 from Renaissance whose original line-up had begun to fragment during the recording of second album ‘Illusion’.

By 1972, Jim had decided he wanted to sing the songs he was composing at the piano. “It was a bit of a branch out for me as I had always just been a drummer, but I really wanted to sing my own songs,” he recalls.

While less classically constructed, the new band’s (Shoot) music continued with the brand of melodic progressive rock Jim had pursued in Renaissance.

There is another artist with the name 'Shoot'.

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