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[Granny Gremlin]

"No one needs a bridge pickup" -- Dave   

We are not supposed to agree this much.  ... shit, this means I'm old doesn't it.

[Basvarken]

"No one needs a bridge pickup" -- Dave   

Andy Fraser did

[ajkula66]

Andy Fraser did

Only until his EB-3 got stolen and he moved on to Epiphone Rivoli....

[Basvarken]

https://www.flyguitars.com/interviews/AndyFraser3.php

[ajkula66]

https://www.flyguitars.com/interviews/AndyFraser3.php

So he added a pickup to the Rivoli ? I saw the picture - and the interview - many times but never paid attention to the detail. Mea culpa.

[Basvarken]

That's not what i meant to say with that link. I don't think he added a bridge pickup.
It's more that I'm not sure if the Rivoli was the follow-up after the EB-3 got stolen.

[ajkula66]

That's not what i meant to say with that link. I don't think he added a bridge pickup.

If you look closely at it, that Rivoli has too many controls/knobs, so he did add *something*...

It's more that I'm not sure if the Rivoli was the follow-up after the EB-3 got stolen.

Well, Fraser himself didn't seem to have much of a precise recollection of those events which is hardly surprising...

[Basvarken]

If you look closely at it, that Rivoli has too many controls/knobs, so he did add *something*...

You're right! Most likely an added bridge pickup indeed.
Which would make sense, since his sound with the EB-3 was mainly madeby the bridge pickup. I think the mubucker on it's would never have worked for the bass lines he played.

[uwe]

If you look closely at it, that Rivoli has too many controls/knobs, so he did add *something*...

Well, Fraser himself didn't seem to have much of a precise recollection of those events which is hardly surprising...

Poor guy was probably worrying at the time why the attraction of teenage girls to "the pretty face" of Free felt somewhat one-sided to him.

[ajkula66]

Poor guy was probably worrying at the time why the attraction of teenage girls to "the pretty face" of Free felt somewhat one-sided to him.

Mr. Fraser was a deeply troubled soul on many levels. His autobiography left me with a very uneasy feeling in my stomach. One of the books that I wish that I haven't read. Nevertheless, he remains one of most important influences for the young-bass-playing-me from 40 years ago.

[uwe]

Andy was only 16 when Free broke through. 16 in the 60ies in England in a band otherwise full of straights. It cannot have been easy for him.

I read Robert Halford's autobiography Confess a while ago and for the first 40 years of his life he grappled with living an openly gay life. He writes that he knew of his sexual orientation since he was 10 years old, but that in 50ies und 60ies England in the Midlands there were simply no openly gay men that he could pattern himself after. His Priest band mates knew it too - from day one when he joined the band (bassist Ian Hill's GF at the time was Halford's older sister who was close to Rob), but it was never discussed except when the other guys would jokingly taunt him whether he shouldn't try a pretty girl for once (he did - to no avail). It's hard to believe but he writes that until he turned 40 he had only had casual sex in men's restrooms (he got arrested once too in the US, George Michael style, but one of the cops was a Priest fan and they let him go without pressing charges) or tragic relationships with men who were not so much gay, but starstruck being with "the lead singer of Judas Priest". Instead he drank until coming clean of alcohol in the mid 80ies. Only in the 90ies did he find solace and a lasting relationship with a gay man (totally not into rock and they are together to this day).

But the funniest part was: The leather-studded Metal God is hell-bent for gay vanilla sex; there are - contrary to popular belief - no dungeons in his houses in Phoenix and, uhum, Walsall (near Birmingham/Wolverhampton, UK) and he has never actively or passively used a whip off-stage. 

And Priest's leather image was actually not his but KK Downing's do (who was in desperate search of a "uniform" to create an image he felt the band lacked early on), says Ken: "Rob just took the ball and ran with it from a certain point onwards"

Oh, and not only "Eat Me Alive", but also "Jawbreaker" are blow job odes. 

[Dave W]

Since you brought up blow jobs, let me just drop this here.

Woman 'performs oral sex on armed robber holding up petrol station to detain him until police arrive and arrest him'

[uwe]

I'd say: arrest with fringe benefits. 

This woman was obviously a vessel of higher forces to restore law and order.

Rob Halford would probably be inspired to some "Ingest the semen of the demon!" (add high-pitched scream ...) sheer poetry.

[Granny Gremlin]

LOL that lady is a Robertson Davies-esque foolsaint.

[uwe]

It's that outlaw magnetism you have too, Jake, no worries. Gotta gas station up close for a little hold- .... errrm ...hook-up?