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Pete Way - UFO

#3
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.
 
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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.
 
#7
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).
 
#9
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. :confused:
 
#10
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.
 
#12
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 :smug: 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!
 
#18
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.
 
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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 ) 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). :hyper: :hyper: :hyper:
It's back to one per weeknight nowadays(Nightwish CD currently wakes me up).
 

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