I was astonished at the little they were able to play without a sheet of music in front of them, and when Terry Walsh said once you learn to read music I'll get you loads of work. Terry Walsh the guitar player said come along to our grand opening, so I did though I still couldn't play, but they had me sitting in on their little jam session, just playing Green Onions I think it was. MH There used to be a shop in Tooting called Terry Walsh and Bobby Kevin. Original copies of this garage-psych album are highly-sought after, and recently it was included in "Record Collector's 100 Greatest Psychedelic Records of all time".įlyGuitars Almost immediately you started playing sessions for people. The Five Day Week Straw People, by Guy (Mascolo) and David (Montague) was recorded in 1968. Sounded like a dull thud instead of an instrument, you know. I was more or less learning on it, you know, tape wound strings. The first bass I actually bought was a Gibson EB0, but the one I had before that. John Cann eventually replaced Dick Hannay.
I knew the guitar player, a guy called Dick Hannay we'd been at school together. MH Yeah that was the first band I ever gigged with.
Guy Mascolo and David Montague.įlyGuitars Your first band was the Mailtown Blues Band. There were a couple guys that lived across the road from me, who both played guitar a bit, and from that moment on I was a bass player. I thought that sounds great, though I ended up with a six string. I started learning guitar after I saw Pete Seeger playing a 12 string on TV. He restored and repaired violins and guitars.
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My uncle was a professional musician all his life, plus he owned a music shop in Battersea. Mick Hawksworth (MH) All my family played. Mick talks us through his bands, his basses (he currently uses a Gibson RD artist bass - "a truly magnificent bass") and throws in a rock and roll story or two!įlyGuitars How did you become a musician? Over the next decade he played bass in Fuzzy Duck, Toefat, Jimmy McCullough Band, Landslide, Charley Horse, Shanghai, Human Orchestra, and Ten Years Later recording with the likes of Alvin Lee, Mickey Jones, Mathew Fisher (ex-Procol Harum), Gilbert O'Sulivan and more besides. Their sound was akin to Cream one moment, The Who the next, and perhaps Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd after that. In the 60s he was noted for his "technically brilliant basslines" after he formed the short-lived Andromeda with Attack frontman John Cann.
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