I've been playing bass for three years with Bright Spark , and for six years with Rick Hayward as the duo A Little Uneasy , though I do play with lots of other people, anyone who'll have me I suppose. My bass is a spectacular 5-string fretless designed to be played on a floor stand and built by the brilliant Mike Walsh at Iceni Music , where the Zoot basses are made. I don't think I'm really an 'exciting' sort of bassist though - I am not a flash player, more in the 'useful' category.
However, I put up this page as an outlet for my own solo songs as, for the previous three or four years, I had rather let them die. I still remember all the words, though most of them I can't actually play any more to a decent standard, as the bass had taken over and I had let my guitar playing get rather rusty.
All the songs I shall put up here are ones I played live to audiences, and by heart, as I never sing a song other than from memory. If I 'dry', I dry - a risk I'll take as I still think that's better than singing to a piece of paper, and definitely gives the proceedings an edge for a song like News, Weather & Archers... Playing an instrument from the 'dots' is fine by me, all the best orchestras do. But singers should always sing TO their listeners FROM the heart, say I! So feel free to comment if you agree with me, or disagree.