Kim Simmonds

Garnet Grimm: Like I was just saying, I’m grieving a little bit because it’s still pretty raw. Kim passed in December and that was quite a shock. Even though it was not a total surprise. He had been dealing with cancer for a long while. He was very tenacious and I thought we had some more time. So we did get this album out, but when the album came out I felt a little like you said, “bittersweet”. It was nice that we got it out, but it’s kind of emotional to hear him sing and play and know that he’s not here. I owe him a lot of gratitude because he really has helped me along through the years and really solidified my career for me. Without him I wouldn’t have been able to really do any of the things that I set out to do. He justified my career for me.

Rock And Blues International: What lies in the future for Savoy Brown? Will you continue on as Savoy Brown?

Garnet Grimm: First of all I really think that there is no way this band can tour and still be Savoy Brown without Kim. I do like to think though that there might be some more juice in the tank as far as our recordings. Maybe there might be another Savoy Brown release down the road, Kim left us quite a bit of demos and some of them are nearly finished, so there may well be that kind of thing in the future. But I will say… a lot of people have asked me this in the last couple of weeks… my caveat is that if it’s going to be done, it will have to be done with the same kind of fortitude that Kim would have put into it. It can’t be something that would be done lightly. It has to be done with the right people. We’ll have to see how that goes. Yeah, that’s where I stand on that. That’s what I hope for. There’s a good possibility that might happen. continued on next page

Rock And Blues International: Before Kim passed, did he express any desire on what he’d like to see on the legacy of the band or with the future of the band?

Garnet Grimm: Well, not with me personally, but I do know that he was… he had been working with some people, record industry lawyers and stuff like that, to insure that things would be in order as best as possible. He didn’t really express those personal things to me that would be a better question for his wife Debbie. I’m sure he was very concerned about that, his band Savoy Brown had become kind of an institution. It’s something he cared very much about. It was his whole life’s work.