Pete Way chording on a Bird ...

[uwe]

Comparatively recently on a modern Gibson one (not that he shuns away from Epis either when he plays live) with the Vinnie Moore UFO line up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHE3-FOrDkw&feature=related

In halcyon daze (1978) wiff Herr Schenker on a Bicentennial***:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9U3u-FIoJU&feature=related

***There is a newspaper clipping in the booklet of the recent UFO Obsession remaster where Pete Way says that he used an EB-1 to record that particular track on Obsession, calling it a "Gibson violin bass". If he did, it must have been a fifties model or a later one with different pups, can't imagine he used a mudbucker for that sound. Or that Ron Nevison, who isn't known for bass-heavy production work, would have let him!   

[TBird1958]

Pete Way =  My inspiration!   He is everything the bassist in a rock band should be! His playing serves the song, he's got a look that's all his, drinks alittle too much .......and  yeah Thunderbirds. Happily I got to see UFO with Schenker in '78 or '79 and they played "Cherry"..........finally a benifit of my age!

Nice post Herr Moderator!
   

[gweimer]

When I saw UFO, Pete Way was so drunk he could barely walk up to the stage.  They hit the opening chords for "Doctor, Doctor", and he hit the wrong chord altogether.  It was the tour with Ray Chapman, and I don't think it was one of their best.
Way lived here in Columbus for a few years, and I guess The Pete Way Band even made it out to some of the larger club venues in the area.

[Barklessdog]

In that first clip he going into the T bird forbidden zone (upper registers)

Sounds good!

[doombass]

In that first clip he going into the T bird forbidden zone (upper registers)

Sounds good!

That zone might be forbidden, but we all like to do forbidden things now and then and on a T'bird it is so nice. To me one of the strongest assets of a T'bird is the sound on the upper part of the fretboard.

[OldManC]

Pete Way was always one of my bass heroes. Cool videos, both...

[Freuds_Cat]

Pete Way was always one of my bass heroes. Cool videos, both...

+1

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Is that Phil Mogg singin' ib the first vid?
If it is, he sounds so different....he lost his unique sound. Alas

[uwe]

Of course it's Mogg, you think he sounds that much different? Not the smoothness and agility of the voice of a man thirty years younger, but I still hear that tone and he's not embarrassing himself. Mogg was never really a hard rock singer in the "highpierced shrieks over the music" Plant or Gillan mold. And he didn't have the blues grit of a Paul Rodgers or David Coverdale either. In fact I could have envisaged his voice with a singer/songwriter or even a pop band like the Hollies. It certainly made UFO different.

[Basvarken]

he lost his unique sound. Alas

I totally disagree. Mogg's voice has only gained power IMHO.
His unique tone is definitely still there.

I always thought his voice sounds a bit like John Waite but grittier/gutsier.

[godofthunder]

Always loved UFO, I got to meet Pete when he and Waysted came through town in '86. He did a in store at the House of Guitars and gave us all backstage passes, a fun night for sure ! He and the band were super cool to us.