Everything about Dave Pegg totally explained
Dave Pegg (born David Pegg,
2 November 1947 in
Acocks Green,
Birmingham,
England) is a
bass guitarist/multi-instrumentalist. After playing
guitar in school
bands, he became a professional
musician in the mid
1960s. He failed an audition as
guitarist with The Uglys, a Birmingham-based
rock band led by
Steve Gibbons, but was offered the job of bass guitarist.
Pegg also played
double bass for a short while with Birmingham based
folk ensemble, The Ian Campbell Folk Group. During this stint he met Birmingham
fiddle-player
Dave Swarbrick, who introduced Pegg to
Fairport Convention in
1970.
Ashley Hutchings, the band's founder and bassist, had left to form
Steeleye Span and Pegg took over. Pegg's tenure with Fairport has been unbroken since then.
When Fairport first disbanded in
1979, Pegg joined the
rock band
Jethro Tull and he played with them for much of the
1980s. However, Fairport reformed as a full-time band in
1985 with Pegg still on bass. In
1987 Jethro Tull toured the
U.S. with Fairport Convention as support act: Pegg played in both bands at each
concert.
Pegg has released two
solo albums:
The Cocktail Cowboy Goes It Alone (
1983) and
Birthday Party (
1998), both on
Woodworm Records. Dave also plays mandolin and
bouzouki. In 2007 he recorded "Galileo's Apology" as a duo with guitarist PJ Wright. PJ had been lead guitar with the
Steve Gibbons Band. The album was a collection of pop and folk-rock songs and instrumentals.
Since 1979, Fairport has staged
Cropredy Festival, a three-day music event in
Oxfordshire. Until recently it was organised by Pegg and his former
wife Christine: since their
divorce, the band as a whole organises the festival, now called Fairport's Cropredy Convention. In 2007 "A Box of Pegg's" was released. The 4 CDs contained a career summary of his work with Fairport Convention, Crawdaddy, Richard Thompson, Mike Heron, Steve Ashley, Jethro Tull, The Ian Campbell Folk Group and others.
Pegg now lives in
Banbury,
Oxfordshire. He has a daughter, Stephanie, who works as a
PR consultant: his son,
Matt Pegg, is a bassist who has played with, among others,
Procol Harum and
Francis Dunnery.
The Dylan Project
Starting in 1998, several musicians formed a Bob Dylan tribute band, touring annually in the autumn. They were
Simon Nicol, PJ Wright, Steve Gibbons, Dave Pegg and
Gerry Conway. So far they've released two albums.
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