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For me Genesis are thee prog band of the 70's. I had a ticket to see them at Newcastle City Hall on the Wind & Wuthering tour, but I came down with Meningitis three days beforehand. I like the post Hackett albums, but never felt the need to go and see them after he left. I make do with Seconds Out, it's a great and often overlooked live album, I hope one day they get around to releasing a version comprising the full show.

John Deacon, Geddy, Pete Way, Gerry McAvoy, Ronnie Lane, Rutger Gunnarsson (ABBA), John McCoy, Algy Ward, Paul Gray (Eddie and the Hot Rods, The Damned, UFO), JJ Burnel, Bruce Foxton, Mick Karn, Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree), Paul Webb, Nick Seymour, to name a few. As for Cronos, he actually is a decent player. I recall sometime around 1983/84, Venom met Rush, and being all star struck and such Connie say's to Geddy, "You are my biggest inspiration, I learned the whole Hemispheres album, from beginning to end!" Geddy replied "I hope I didn't cramp your style!"

....and also Nicky Wire and Stove king of The Manics and Mansun respectively. A different genre The Bass player in The Specials plays one. Like Jonesy says there's no rules, if you like the bass and the sound it makes, go with it.

IMHO Still their best album, Script comes a close 2nd!

I bought Chris' Vintera pup off of him, he provided great communication from the beginning to end of the transaction. The bloke is a total gent.. Thanks again Chris.

For those interested, it is/was Pete's Black 79 bird, coil tap fitted during the Waysted era. shame that some fool put a Badass on it though.

I see he's changed the description to 79-81 which is more than likely correct as Pete only had two 70's birds between 77 and 81. The Natural which was a 76 and remained that colour. and a Black 79 which was purchased around mid 1980, which was his main bass when I saw them in 81.

Nop It's the lighting making it look Red. I've seen loads of pics with it looking reddish, but close up you can see the prominent dark wood grain on the upper front bout.

I messaged him yesterday, told him he'd be luck to get £450 for it, he replied. "I accept offers!"

Back in 2016 I asked Pete what happened to the Natural Bicentennial bird? His reply was "I don't know, one day I had it, and then I didn't" This Red one could well be Pete's Black 79. I just hope it and the Natural weren't one of the birds that were stolen.

I've found this fella on Facebook's Thunderbird bass players page and I've seen the pictures he claims are that Red bird, some date back to 1978 and all pics are of the Natural bird, there is a dark grain on the front top bought that stands out a mile.

Ibanez Iceman that was in the early 2004.

I saw UFO on many occasions between 1977 and 1981 and I never once saw him with a Red Bird. He had the same Natural Finish 1976 Bicentennial for all the gigs, apart from 1981, when he had a Black 79 Bird. his backups were Precisions.

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Oh dear. I'd best delete then

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Yep it's a sickener. That was 10 years or so ago, and looking at their YT channel there's nothing recent, they may have called it a day.