Pete Way - UFO

FireArm · #1 09-01-2007, 09:52 PM

Saw UFO tonight for those of you who remember them, pete way was totally drunk out of his skull he could only just walk around stage - so how he never mised one note and played a perfect set i'll never know... wierd.

lefty · #2 09-01-2007, 09:54 PM

love ufo and pete way! were did you see them and what was the line up?

!Rob! · #3 09-01-2007, 10:01 PM

I used to have KTel "Rock 80", with "Only You Can Rock Me"

I wore a nice groove into that section of the album, I was so into the gtr riff at the beginning, I used to lift the needle over and over.

Thanks for the reminder, YouTubing now.

FireArm · #4 09-01-2007, 10:11 PM

saw then at Stormin The Castle motorbike ralley in Durham, they were playing to an audience of about 2000 people, not bad for a bunch of old timers! - he was using an epiphone thunderbird tonight.

FireArm · #5 09-01-2007, 10:13 PM

PS

line up was

Phil Mogg - Vocals
Vinnie Moore - Lead Guitar
Paul Raymond - rhythm guitar + keyboards
Pete way - bass
andy parker - drums

JimmyM · #6 09-02-2007, 12:06 AM

The original lineup without Michael Schenker! Wow! That's pretty good to get 4 out of 5 original members. Schenker's replacement, Paul Chapman, is now in Florida playing in Molly Hatchet's Gator Country, which is most of the members of Hatchet who are still with us. There's an actual Molly Hatchet out there, but they've only got one original member.

I saw UFO twice a long time ago with Schenker and Chapman, but I would have loved to seen them with Vinnie Moore. I'll bet it was great. It's so cool to see these 70's band that got slogged around like UFO out there again and kicking ass. I'll bet they make more now than they did in their heyday.

Matt Till · #7 09-02-2007, 12:23 AM

The only album I have is the self titled. If he played bass on that album, I'm a fan. I love his tone and hope he didn't modernize! I doubt he stuck with whatever his classic rig is, but he has what I consider perfect rock tone, once again, suggesting he played bass on the self titled (from 1970).

Coward Of Reali · #8 09-02-2007, 12:36 AM

Was he using a pick or his fingers?

Atoz · #9 09-02-2007, 12:50 AM

You lucky dog... Pete Way is awesome! "Highway Lady" off of No Heavy Petting was one of my favorite songs when I was about 12, and also one of the first songs I ever learned.

Looks like they had all the original members except Mick Bolton. I'm surprised... I thought Andy Parker quit drumming altogether about 20 years ago.

JimmyM · #10 09-02-2007, 02:48 AM

No offense to Mick Bolton, but the albums he did weren't great. Everyone considers Michael Schenker as the original guitarist. I never knew he had rejoined UFO for quite a few years in the mid 90's, but I got all interested in them again and went to their website. What's even weirder than that is that Billy Sheehan did a stint with UFO right before David Lee Roth because Pete Way left to form Fastway with Fast Eddie from Motorhead. I wonder if they had to tell him to calm down.

Matt Till, you'll be happy to know that even though the actual bass has changed over the years, Pete Way is still slinging a Thunderbird into an SVT, just like the old days. Looks like we'll never see them, though. All their tour dates have been exclusively European.

Matt Till · #11 09-02-2007, 03:19 AM

Figures, that's usually the way it goes.

I'm glad Pete is keepin' in real though.

FireArm · #12 09-02-2007, 10:12 AM

Yeah it was a really great night, pete way seems to alternate between using fingers and using a pick, im sure i read somewhere that he only used fingers but as hes got older has started to develop mild arthritis however this may have just been someone taking the p*ss

but it sounds feasible I think hes like 60 or something now!

Ohh yeah and all of pete ways on stage mannorisms are exactly the same as Steve Harris of Iron Maiden.. everything from the foot on the monitor to "shooting" the crowd with his bass...

its like looking into a time machine!

Jerry Ziarko · #13 09-02-2007, 10:41 AM

I saw UFO in a cub back in the "No Heavy Petting" days. Still to this day the loudest thing I have ever experienced in my life. In fact, it was painfully loud. At the time it was cool, now with pretty severe tinnitus, painfully stupid.

these_go211 · #14 09-06-2007, 03:19 PM

i LOVE his tone on 'lights out.' it's so fat. that must have been a great show!

Coward Of Reali · #15 09-06-2007, 04:38 PM

I read he uses Epiphone Thunderbird these days, says they have more growl.

Thunderitter · #16 09-06-2007, 09:28 PM

When did he give up his Ibanez?

steamthief · #17 09-06-2007, 11:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by these_go211

i LOVE his tone on 'lights out.' it's so fat. that must have been a great show!

+1! That song is awesome.

I just picked up their "Essential" cd, and it's pretty darn good. How UFO eluded me in high school (79-83) boggles me.

JimmyM · #18 09-06-2007, 11:17 PM

UFO eluded a lot of people. They played some of the biggest gigs in the world and opened for some of the biggest acts in the world, and never broke through. I have this theory that they refused to pay to get on the radio and that's why they never broke through.

Johnny Crab · #19 09-06-2007, 11:46 PM

Congrats on seeing 'em!

Back before they had CD's or clock radios with CD's for alarm music....my stereo turntable had the UFO live LP(Lights Out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aatjerFCRP8 ) cued up hooked up to one of those old electrical timers(before digital ones)....with the volume LOUD enough to wake me up after an hour or two of sleep(day job + gigs during the week back then).

It's back to one per weeknight nowadays(Nightwish CD currently wakes me up).