Greg Ridley

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Greg Ridley, 1973

Greg Ridley born when Alfred Gregory Ridley (* 23. October 1947 in Aspatria in today's district Allerdale , Cumbria , † 19th November 2003 in Alicante , Spain ), was a British rock musician , best known as the bass guitarist of the groups Spooky Tooth and Humble Pie .

Life

Alf Ridley grew up in Carlisle (in what is now the City of Carlisle ) and gained his first experience with school bands (Dino & The Danubes, The Dakotas) and played with the band The VIPs at the age of sixteen. As a good singer he was the front man of the band, which, after regional successes, also appeared in the London club scene and occasionally played in the Star Club in Hamburg. During this time the first recordings were made, including the singles Wintertime , I Wanna Be Free and Straight Down To The Bottom . Keith Emerson joined The VIPs for a short time , the band released the album Supernatural Fairy Tales in 1967 under the name Art . With the move from Gary Wright to Emerson and the renaming to Spooky Tooth , Ridley became one of the most famous bassists on the London music scene. In the late sixties, two albums were released, It's all about (1968) and Spooky Two (1969). He became known to a large audience after joining Humble Pie with Steve Marriott ; he stayed with the group until they broke up in 1975 and shaped the band's blues rock with his bass.

After the group broke up, Ridley teamed up with Clem Clempson and Cozy Powell to form the band Strange Brew , but also played with Marriott, with whom he recorded an album that has not been released until today. Also with the Marriott's All Stars his friend was Ridley bass player and singer - an album and two small tours are the result of this commitment. Then Ridley retired from the music business, during the death of his friend Steve Marriott (1991). On the tenth anniversary of Marriott's death, Ridley performed together with former Humble Pie members Jerry Shirley, Peter Frampton and Dave Clempson at the Marriott Memorial Concert in the Astoria, London . From this gig the idea developed to revive Humble Pie and Ridley teamed up with Jerry Shirley, Bobby Tench, Dave Colwell and Zoot Money to create Humble Pie MkIII . A tour and studio recordings were planned, but were negated by Ridley's death from complications from pneumonia in 2003. The remaining members of the failed project due to Ridley's death played in 2004 at a concert in memory of Greg Ridley.

Ridley left his wife with two sons and two daughters.

Stations and Discography

  • 1963–1968 The VIPs - The Complete VIPs (2006)
  • 1968 Art
  • 1968-1969 Spooky Tooth - It's all about (1968); Spooky Two (1969)
  • 1969–1975 Humble Pie - As safe as yesterday is (1969); Town and Country (1969); Humble Pie (1970); Rock on (1971); Smokin '(1972); Eat it (1973); Thunderbox (1974); Street rats (1975)
  • 1976–1988 Marriott's All Stars
  • 1999–2001 Humble Pie - Back on track (2001)
  • 2001-2003 The Rockets
  • 2003 Greg Ridley's Humble Pie
  • Solo publication (posthumous) 2005 - Anthology: All I ever needed

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ peel.wiki.com: Spooky Tooth .
  2. ^ Siegfried Schmidt-Joos , Barry Graves : Rock-Lexikon. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1973, 2nd edition 1975, reprint 1978, ISBN 3-499-16177-X , p. 180 f. ( Humble Pie ), here: p. 180.
  3. ↑ News & Star: Are you our next Star? .
  4. ↑ Allmusic.Retrieved January 9, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Ridley, Greg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ridley, Alfred Gregory
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English rock musician
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Aspatria , Cumbria , England
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 2003
Place of death Alicante , Spain