Dave Pegg is a bass guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He is the longest serving member of the pre-eminent electric folk band Fairport Convention and has been bassist with a number of important folk and rock groups including The Ian Campbell Folk Group and Jethro Tull. He has appeared on some of the most significant albums of his era, as well as undertaking solo projects. His style of playing bass has been particularly influent...
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Dave Pegg is a bass guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He is the longest serving member of the pre-eminent electric folk band Fairport Convention and has been bassist with a number of important folk and rock groups including The Ian Campbell Folk Group and Jethro Tull. He has appeared on some of the most significant albums of his era, as well as undertaking solo projects. His style of playing bass has been particularly influential in electric folk music.
David Pegg was born on 2 November 1947 at Acocks Green, Birmingham, England. He began to learn guitar when fourteen or fifteen, inspired by The Shadows, and played in a school band at Yardley Grammar school.
After leaving school he worked as an insurance clerk for about a year while playing in a part-time bands the Crawdaddys and the The Roy Everett Blues Band, who supported several performers from the flourishing Birmingham beat scene of the time, including the Spencer Davis Group and The Moody Blues. In 1966 he...
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