Leigh Stephens - After Blue Cheer

After his departure from Blue Cheer in 1969, Leigh Stephens went on to form Silver Meter with Pete Sears on bass. Sears played on the classic Rod Stewart albums Gasoline Alley, Every Picture Tells A Story, (which was listed high in Rolling Stone Magazine's top 500 albums of all time), Never A Dull Moment, and Smiler. He also played on the hit singles Maggie May and Reason to Believe, and was with Jefferson Starship (1974 to 1984) and it's offspring Starship (1985 to 1987). Micky Waller occupied the drums and Jack Reynolds supplied vocals.
  The group recorded one album, at Trident Studios in London, England and it was released on National General Records, produced by their manager, FM rock radio pioneer Tom Donahue.

His 1971 album, And A Cast of Thousands featured among other musicians his fellow band members from the above mentioned band, together with the power trio Ashton, Gardner, and Dyke, together with the two sax players from If, Dave Quincey, Dave Morrissey, and Jethro Tull bassist Glen Cornick.
1971 also saw the formation of Pilot, consisting of Bruce Stephens, Leigh Stephens, Micky Waller, and Neville Whitehead. The band came about while Micky Waller was on a trip to California, where he met and played with Bruce Stephens who had just completed playing with Blue Cheer as lead guitarist / vocalist. Mickey returned to England and met with Martin Quittenton. They formed the band and stayed together until 1973. During that time they released two albums for RCA: Pilot (1972), and Point of View (1973), along with one single Rider / Miss Sandy. 

He was ranked 98 on Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the 100 greatest guitar players of all time.

Red Weather - 1969