Peter Wells (musician)
Peter William "Pete" Wells (born December 31, 1946 , † March 27, 2006 ) was a musician and one of the founding members of the well-known Australian hard rock band Rose Tattoo .
Career
Peter Wells started his public music career in 1971 in the band Head, which was renamed Buffalo a little later . Here he initially acted as a bass player.
In 1976 Wells fell out with his Buffalo colleagues and left the band, and a little later the hard rock band Rose Tattoo, which is still active today, along with singer Angry Anderson , guitarist Mick Cocks , bassist Ian Rilen and drummer Dallas ”Digger” Royal to found. Here Wells switched from bass to guitar without further ado and acted as lead guitarist and main songwriter for the band until he left in 1983.
After leaving Rose Tattoo, he founded the Pete Wells Band in the same year and worked on various other side projects.
On the occasion of an invitation from Guns n 'Roses , who covered the song Nice Boys by Rose Tattoo in 1986 and wanted to sign the band as a one-time opener for the occasion, Wells returned to the side of his old colleagues for this one concert. In the following years the Pete Wells Band enjoyed his full attention again.
From 1999, when Rose Tattoo officially reunited, he worked again as the band's guitarist and went on tour with her in the following years.
On March 27, 2006, Peter Wells died of prostate cancer .
Bands
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Web links
- Former homepage of Pete Wells ( Memento of July 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- laut.de - Short biography of Rose Tattoo
Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Wells, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wells, Peter William (full name); Wells, Pete (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1946 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 2006 |