Recent content by Dave Richmond

Correction to the ‘Your Song’ session musicians that played on this Elton John song: Frank Clark is listed here as playing Acoustic Guitar. Frank Clark played Double Bass in unison with myself playing Bass Guitar.

There were a few bass guitar players like myself playing on most of the sessions, including Russ Stableford who worked at ATV under Jack Parnell’s direction. I think Tom Jones and Englebert Humperdinck both had TV series recorded there. So he would be most likely to have played on their...

I very rarely met other bass players. It did happen occasionally when I was working at very large studios where they had more than one studio such as EMI, DECCA and BBC MAIDA VALE (which has I think has at least five studios used of course mainly for broadcasts on the radio) My work for the...

Just a note regarding the unison string bending I did on the Melody Nelson tracks. I have written about this before on another post anyway here goes: Not long before the Melody Nelson sessions I was working alongside Alan Parker on a session at Morgan Studios. I heard him doing the string...

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No one is more surprised than me that at this time in my life (84) there is so much interest in the music I was playing 50 or so years ago!

This is definitely me playing my black bison. I don’t have e

I think I messed up with my reply so might not have received it so I am sending you a copy of it: Yes I did play on the Only Fools and Horses theme music. I started to use a Fretless precision Fretless when I started playing the bass for Ronnie Hazelhurst. Particularly the series ‘Only Fools and...

Yes I did play on the Only Fools and Horses theme music. I started to use a Fretless precision Fretless when I started playing the bass for Ronnie Hazelhurst. Particularly the series ‘Only Fools and Horses’ because there were three old blokes in it falling about in it. It bought bass rather a...

I did a lot of work with John Barry and in fact toured with him in his orchestra when he did a tour to Russia, Hong Kong and Japan playing all his movie themes I think it was in about 1975!

There absolutely no doubt that I am the bass guitar player on ‘J’Taime’. I still have all my old diaries with the Studio, Date and time of every session I did from the day I recorded 5,4,3,2,1 with Manfred Mann. The click sound and style is absolutely the sound I made with my Burns Black Bison...