NancyJohnson Posted March 10, 2017 Posted March 10, 2017 (edited) Just a little curious. I still love 3 Colours Red and the Elevation EP he did after the band folded (but never did land a copy of the Basskniv3s EP), but am just curious that a guy in a band with a decent following and back catalogue can just drop off the map like he has. I type the name into Google once in a while, but nothing recent. No Facebook or anything. Anyone got any intelligence? Edited March 10, 2017 by NancyJohnson Quote
Roger2611 Posted March 10, 2017 Posted March 10, 2017 Saw Three Colours Red on the same bill as 60ft Dolls and the Wildhearts some years back, 3 awesome bands, sorry no info on where Pete disappeared to though Quote
arthurhenry Posted March 10, 2017 Posted March 10, 2017 I remember seeing him play for Diamond Head when they opened for Metallica at Milton Keynes in '93. In an interview, he stated that he was paid £10 for the gig. Quote
mike257 Posted March 12, 2017 Posted March 12, 2017 I had a track from a post 3 Colours Red band on a Rock Sound cover CD many many years ago, name escapes me now. I'll have a think! Quote
NancyJohnson Posted March 12, 2017 Author Posted March 12, 2017 (edited) Pete did the Elevation EP after the first split, then Basskniv3s ('Come On You Motherf*ck*rs' EP) after 3CR finally called it a day. He did a post, possibly to MySpace(!), saying the Basskniv3s album was finished and being remixed, but Mighty Atom never released it. I read somewhere recently that the album had been leaked. Interestingly, I did exchange a couple if emails with him a few years ago. One of the US sports networks were using 3CRs 'Copper Girl' during their coverage of the Premier League and he didn't seem aware of this, so hopefully some royalties came through! Edited March 12, 2017 by NancyJohnson Quote
sirmuppet Posted January 11, 2018 Posted January 11, 2018 Just seen this. I know he's living in London with his girlfriend as my cousin bumped into him. He's not doing anything musically. He did the Basskniv3s EP and they did record an album but never released it. His girlfriend is on Facebook and does post pictures once in a while. Quote
NancyJohnson Posted January 12, 2018 Author Posted January 12, 2018 I still listen to 3CR quite a bit. I knew he was with Alan Hansen's daughter for a while. No idea who he's with now. He was a rare old talent. I loved what he did. 1 Quote
Cosmo Valdemar Posted January 12, 2018 Posted January 12, 2018 I loved those first two 3CR albums. Tapped right into my adolescent angst they did. Always thought they should have been bigger, but there you go. Revolt features one of my favourite bass tones - not sure how he did it though, it's very different to the tone of the first album, so I assumed it was a bass other than the Thunderbird. Then I saw the live DVD and there it is! Quote
NancyJohnson Posted January 12, 2018 Author Posted January 12, 2018 I've seen stills of him using the Thunderbird (#4), a sunburst Thunderbirdm a Rick, a NR Epiphone. 1 Quote
Merton Posted January 12, 2018 Posted January 12, 2018 Never got into Revolt as much as Pure but this thread has reminded me to go listen to them again! I remember seeing them in Leeds when they reformed, Chris McCormack had a massive strop because the other guitarist basically gave up playing as he couldn’t hear himself. That was fun! Gonna go find their albums now... Quote
Burns-bass Posted January 13, 2018 Posted January 13, 2018 On 10/03/2017 at 18:15, Roger2611 said: Saw Three Colours Red on the same bill as 60ft Dolls and the Wildhearts some years back, 3 awesome bands, sorry no info on where Pete disappeared to though That would have been a hell of a gig! Quote
sirmuppet Posted January 13, 2018 Posted January 13, 2018 He also used a BC Rich in one of the Basskniv3s videos. The EP was great, dunno why the album never appeared. Someone did tell me he used the Non-reverse Epiphone Thunderbird on Revolt. Quote
Cosmo Valdemar Posted January 13, 2018 Posted January 13, 2018 1 hour ago, sirmuppet said: Someone did tell me he used the Non-reverse Epiphone Thunderbird on Revolt. My youthful inexperienced ears used to think that, mainly because it sounded very different to the Thunderbird on Pure, but also because he played a glittery one live when I saw them. However since watching the live DVD from a few years back I now believe it to be the Gibson after all... maybe on the front pickup? Quote
sirmuppet Posted January 13, 2018 Posted January 13, 2018 1 hour ago, Cosmo Valdemar said: My youthful inexperienced ears used to think that, mainly because it sounded very different to the Thunderbird on Pure, but also because he played a glittery one live when I saw them. However since watching the live DVD from a few years back I now believe it to be the Gibson after all... maybe on the front pickup? He played a glittery one? Nice, never seen that one. I know he has a vintage non-reverse one he won on Ebay that he doesn't take out of the house and he also had a 5 string one but took one string off as he didn't like having 5. Have never seen him with either of those but he has mentioned them in interviews. His amp during the last couple of tours was an Ashdown ABM Evo II 500 with the ABM 4x10 and 1x15. He did also use an 8x10 too. Back in the day he used an Ampeg and I'm pretty sure that's the amp he had issues with on the live DVD too. Basskniv3s it was a Trace Elliot stack but unsure which. Quote
Cosmo Valdemar Posted January 13, 2018 Posted January 13, 2018 3 hours ago, sirmuppet said: He played a glittery one? Nice, never seen that one. Not the best quality but you can see the glittery Epiphone here. Full glimpse at the end. Quote
NancyJohnson Posted January 13, 2018 Author Posted January 13, 2018 We've gotta find this guy. Get him to the Bash next September. 1 Quote
Painy Posted January 14, 2018 Posted January 14, 2018 (edited) Wow, this has triggered a bit of a nostalgia trip for me! I remember our singer heard them first and liked them so much that at one point we had Pure, This Is My Hollywood, Nuclear Holiday and Alright Ma all in our set at the same time . Just downloaded the Pure album on Spotify so I'm now going to have a bit of a listen and take myself back 20 years. Edited January 14, 2018 by Painy Quote
sirmuppet Posted January 14, 2018 Posted January 14, 2018 2 hours ago, Cosmo Valdemar said: Not the best quality but you can see the glittery Epiphone here. Full glimpse at the end. Awesome. Never seen this video. Thanks for sharing. Quote
sirmuppet Posted January 14, 2018 Posted January 14, 2018 1 hour ago, NancyJohnson said: We've gotta find this guy. Get him to the Bash next September. Totally. He's the reason I play the bass. Quote
NancyJohnson Posted June 30, 2019 Author Posted June 30, 2019 Mighthy Atom uploaded a full set from 2004 about a month ago. He still hasn't surfaced. How the hell does someone just disappear? Quote
sirmuppet Posted July 1, 2019 Posted July 1, 2019 10 hours ago, NancyJohnson said: Mighthy Atom uploaded a full set from 2004 about a month ago. He still hasn't surfaced. How the hell does someone just disappear? I saw that the company who filmed this had uploaded one track a month ago too. They did it with a split of two different gigs. One of them being this one so perhaps there's another full gig out there somewhere. Have you seen this that's not long popped up...? http://petevuckovic.com/ Could be that he's about to do something, hopefully. Especially since they just released the above gig. I do know he's been living in London with his girlfriend but as far as I know he hasn't done anything beyond the Basskniv3s EP. Quote
NancyJohnson Posted July 1, 2019 Author Posted July 1, 2019 (edited) 24 minutes ago, sirmuppet said: Have you seen this that's not long popped up...? I hadn't seen the site, so bookmarked! I hope he's back; I feel a real affinity with pretty much everything he's been part of. Edited July 1, 2019 by NancyJohnson Quote
sirmuppet Posted July 1, 2019 Posted July 1, 2019 1 minute ago, NancyJohnson said: I hadn't seen the site, so bookmarked! I hope he's back; I feel a real affinity with pretty much everything he's been part of. Totally man. I was actually only last night I found that site. I did a check on the wayback machine and it's new with this image and certainly looks hopeful that something is coming. I'm currently watching the live video you posted and man it takes me back. This was the second to last tour they did. I remember they came out to do the encore in Glasgow and Chris snapped a string, blamed Pete for it for some reason and they squared up to each other on stage. I honestly thought they were gonna go at it. I really do hope he's back with something. I'd even love it to be some solo stuff with him playing guitar. He was a great song writer as well as a kickass bass player. I'm so taking my Thunderbird to next practice. Quote
Monkey Steve Posted July 18, 2019 Posted July 18, 2019 On 12/01/2018 at 20:53, Merton said: Never got into Revolt as much as Pure but this thread has reminded me to go listen to them again! I remember seeing them in Leeds when they reformed, Chris McCormack had a massive strop because the other guitarist basically gave up playing as he couldn’t hear himself. That was fun! Gonna go find their albums now... as an aside, Mr McCormack is the organiser of Camden Rocks. I wasn't aware of this until a mate of mine who was working as crew this year pointed it out...I then went drinking with the mate as his shift had finished and I'm a bit vague on whether I actually saw McCormack playing the Underworld with The Professionals 1 Quote
sirmuppet Posted July 19, 2019 Posted July 19, 2019 On 18/07/2019 at 14:00, Monkey Steve said: as an aside, Mr McCormack is the organiser of Camden Rocks. I wasn't aware of this until a mate of mine who was working as crew this year pointed it out...I then went drinking with the mate as his shift had finished and I'm a bit vague on whether I actually saw McCormack playing the Underworld with The Professionals He also played guitar for Gary Newman for a number of years too Not sure what happened to Paul Grant, he was playing with Pete but since that never went much further I dunno. Ben Harding was working in public relations. Quote
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