Pete Quaife

[Trav]

RIP Pete.

[rickboy88]

The new October 2010 Bass Player magazine has a short interview with Dave Davies regarding Pete. There's a large of him holding the RM1999 backstage.

Dave related that Pete favored the RM1999 for live gigs. He got it after using the semi-acoustic Hofner (Club bass with F holes?) initially, however, it was feedback prone. One they started making some money he went out a bought a "proper" bass (the RM1999).

[Kiddwad57]

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Three Kinks

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[squirebass]

RIP Pete! So sorry to hear of his passing, and I too missed it completely. Rare talent and a real original, the Kinks WON because Pete ended up on bass IMHO

[Kiddwad57]

Peter Quaife, Rick and Vox:

[admin]

I consider myself most fortunate to have had a couple of interesting internet discussions with Pete Quaife. The Kinks were magic in their time. I loved their unique style.

[Kiddwad57]

That's amazing. It's so easy to feel the distance between our heroes' and our own lives. That picture stood out, the combination of pose, bass and amp.

I met a guy who argued that Waterloo Sunset was boring and that the Kinks lost it when they quit doing the power chord thing! As if! Dead End Street!?

As a musician and personality Mr. Quaife seemed like a stabilizing force in that band, but what do I know? I just love their records. Especially the early power chording rockers!

[admin]

Hardly boring in my book but I respect that one person's music is another person's noise. I made a few notes following my discussion with Peter Quaife http://www.rickresource.com/rrp/quaife.html