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Guy Pratt has played bass with Pink Floyd,
David Gilmour, Bryan Ferry, Roxy Music,
Michael Jackson, Madonna and more. Here's a
clip from his stand-up show...
Guy Pratt has played bass with Pink Floyd,
David Gilmour, Bryan Ferry, Roxy Music,
Michael Jackson, Madonna and more. Here's a
clip from his stand-up show...
Find out more about the author here...
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'My Bass and other animals' by Guy Pratt
Guy Pratt's life as bass player to the stars.
The book behind the successful comedy show.
Guy Pratt has played bass with anyone who's
anyone in music: from Madonna and Pink Floyd,
to The Smiths and Michael Jackson.
His show of anecdotes from his rock life was
a huge success at Edinburgh in 2005 -- 'What
tales he has to tell,' Independent; 'He
regaled the audience with hilariously
indiscreet anecdotes about the stars he's
worked with' Toby Young, The Spectator. He is
now on the road with more shows.
Guy Pratt came of age just as playing bass
became sexy. In spurning the guitar solo punk
put the low-end on more of an equal footing;
or maybe it was just that Paul Simonon and
Bruce Foxton were pretty cool. Either way
you'd hear people trying out the basslines of
'White Man in Hammersmith Palais' or
'Peaches' in shops on Denmark Street, in
front of their girlfriends.
Having dallied with Funkapolitan, Pratt
suddenly found himself on Top of the Pops and
supporting David Bowie with smooth Australian
outfit Icehouse. At a ludicrously young age
he became a sought after bass player to the
stars, finding himself crawling from studio
to bar, from hotel to stadium portacabin with
the likes of Robert Palmer, Womack & Womack,
Bernard Edwards, Bryan Ferry and David
Crosby. The eighties were in their prime, and
with a number of Crolla-suited appearances in
windswept videos behind him, he was invited
to join Pink Floyd for a series of stadium of
extravaganzas to make Bono & co look fairly
modest.
Pratt has recorded with Madonna, and spent
time in the studio with Michael Jackson. He
was in The Smiths for a week, has travelled
through customs in a wheelchair after a
flight with Jimmy Page, and has lived to tell
all. My Bass and Other Animals emerges from
the successful stand-up tour of the same
name. It charts his journey from a Mod band
in Southend to playing with Roxy Music at
Live 8; it is a witty and revealing but
heartfelt memoir of life at the sharp end of
the music business.
Guy Pratt started out in eighties band
Icehouse, who suddenly found themselves
supporting David Bowie on his 'Serious
Moonlight' tour of 1983. Since then he's
played bass with everyone, from The Smiths,
Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson and Madonna,
through to Iggy Pop, The Pretenders and Echo
and the Bunnymen. His live show was a success
at 2005's Edinburgh festival and, when not
playing with David Gilmour or Bryan Ferry,
he's been on the road with it since then.
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