Any Pete Farndon fans out there?

[Bass_In_Yer_Face]

30 years after it's release I finally got round to listening to The Pretenders first album and loved some of the bass parts on it.

After googling it, I found it was a guy called Pete Farndon who tragically died from drug abuse in 1983 but looked cool as f**ck, bit like Paul Simenon crossed with the Stray Cats

Oh and James Honeyman-Scott's guitar playing is worth a mention as well, another one who died of drug abuse in the same year.

What a waste.

[deaver]

When I saw the original line up live Pete Farndon had a trick of gobbing some distance vertically and catching it again. Who needs effects and video walls when you can do that. Kids, think twice before you try this for yourselves.

[Low End Bee]

Me. Great bass player. Always played for the song.

Met him a couple of times on the London bike scene too. Obscenely quick rider on an old Triumph Bonneville.

[Bass_In_Yer_Face]

[quote name='Low End Bee' post='666378' date='Nov 26 2009, 03:57 PM']Me. Great bass player. Always played for the song.

Met him a couple of times on the London bike scene too. Obscenely quick rider on an old Triumph Bonneville.[/quote]

He rode a Bonneville?... He's just gone up even further in my opinion!.....for me a bloke that grew up in a house that was British bike mad that makes him great on two accounts!

[Mickeyboro]

He was cool. Seeing him playing (I think) a Guild B301 painted like the Japanese flag (memory fading) in 1980 made me want to be a bass player.

Thanks for the reminder. I tried to set up a Pretenders-style band, and one of the potential frontwomen was Eddi Reader. Always got at (not) spotting talent, me...

[wombatboter]

The sound of his bass on "Mystery achievement"...you can hardly do better.

[Bass_In_Yer_Face]

[quote name='wombatboter' post='666497' date='Nov 26 2009, 05:43 PM']The sound of his bass on "Mystery achievement"...you can hardly do better.[/quote]

You are so right...that and Space Invader are the two that grabbed my attention...the tone is killer

[Bass_In_Yer_Face]

[quote name='Mickeyboro' post='666448' date='Nov 26 2009, 04:53 PM']He was cool. Seeing him playing (I think) a Guild B301 painted like the Japanese flag (memory fading) in 1980 made me want to be a bass player.

Thanks for the reminder. I tried to set up a Pretenders-style band, and one of the potential frontwomen was Eddi Reader. Always got at (not) spotting talent, me... [/quote]

You are correct, here is the very bass you were talking about...wonder were it is now?..don't think it's a Guild B301 though

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCf5wLyfkvQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCf5wLyfkvQ[/url]

Edited November 26, 2009 by Bass_In_Yer_Face

[Mickeyboro]

No, it';s a Hamer isn't it? I bought the wrong bass...

Thanks for this though! I sent a cassette single version of this song to a girl I fancied, and it worked