Happy Birthday today (Aug. 7) to Pete Way, best known as the - TopicsExpress



          

Happy Birthday today (Aug. 7) to Pete Way, best known as the founding bassist for influential 70s UK hard rock band UFO; their string of albums beginning with Force It (1975), No Heavy Petting (1976), Lights Out (1977), Obsession (1978) & especially the double-live Strangers In The Night (1979) delivered some of the decades most consistently satisfying hard rock; disliking the more melodic direction the band was taking in the early-80s, Pete jumped ship to form Fastway with former Motorhead guitarist Fast Eddie Clarke, then played bass for Ozzy Osbourne during the Diary of a Madman tour; he formed the punningly titled Waysted in 1982; Pete rejoined with lead vocalist Phil Mogg to reform UFO in 1992; he released two albums under the Damage Control banner in 2007 & 2009; Petes 2007 solo album Acoustic Animal is expected to be followed in early-2015 by new platter Walking On The Edge, featuring guests Slash & Nikki Sixx…
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 03:29:56 +0000

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