THE PROG INTERVIEW

Every month we get inside the mind of one of the biggest names in music. This issue it’s Dave Pegg. The bassist (and sometime guitarist) is Fairport Convention’s longest-serving member and also played a significant role in Jethro Tull in the 80s and 90s. He appeared on key recordings by John Martyn, Nick Drake and Ralph McTell, as well as his bandmates’ solo works. As he prepares for this year’s Cropredy Convention, he shares with Prog fond memories of Sandy Denny and Nick Drake, tales of accidentally concussing bandmates, and reflects on his time with Ian Anderson’s Tull. And as he looks ahead to the future, he reveals the details of a very special musical board game that’s currently in production.

James McNair

Peggy to his friends, Dave Pegg is one of prog’s most affable and gregarious individuals: a virtuosic, Brummie-born bassist who professes to have taught Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull how to drink. He joined the Fairports in 1969, one week after seeing them play on his 22nd birthday. Revered LP Liege & Lief was just newly baked then, but bassist Ashley Hutchings was leaving to form Steeleye Span, while storied frontwoman Sandy Denny was leaving to form Fotheringay. When Pegg teamed with Richard Thompson, Simon Nicol, Dave Swarbrick and Dave Mattacks, his life changed forever. Folk-rock – or ‘fock’, as he likes to call it – would become his long-term vocation, not only via such special Fairport LPs as Full House, Angel Delight and Rising For The Moon (the latter…

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Prog Italia (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 152

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