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SOFT VERGE WAS  THE FIRST WORKING BAND TOGETHER FOR ABOUT 12 YEARS WITH MIKE QUICK ON LEAD GUITAR/VOCALS JOHN ROWELL/BASS DAVE LINDFIELD/DRUMS BARRY PACKMAN/GUITAR/VOCALS. SOFT VERGE HAD PLAYER CHANGES & LOTS OF DEP PLAYERS A LIST BELOW.
 
BASS
 
JOHN ROWELL
DAVE PARTRIDGE
IAN STAINER
MIKE DUFFIELD
CRIS PHELPS
TONY MUNNS
 
DRUMS
 
DAVE LINDFIELD
WHEELBARROW
MALCOME MORTIMER
STUART TOSH
ANDY POOK
GERRY BERKLEY
NIGE HOWARD SMITH
CONAN
 
SAX
 
JIM PITTS
ROB
 
VIOLIN
 
MIKE PIGGOTT
JOHN WIGG
 
LEAD GUITAR
BIG JIM SULLIVAN
 
I KNOW I MISSED SOME OUT BUT ITS A LONG TIME AGO TO REMEMBER.
 
AFTER SOFT VERGE I WENT SOLO & PUT TOGETHER A BAND CALLED CHANGING FACES, THE IDEA OF THIS CAME FROM USING DEP PLAYERS IN SOFT VERGE,  BAND GIGS, MY FIRST CHANGING FACES GIG WAS AT THE PARROT FORREST GREEN & I GOT TONY MUNNS/BASE ANDY POOK/DRUMS GRAHAM GAFFNEY/LEAD GUITAR, IT WORKED PERFECTLY.
LIST OF PLAYERS & DEPS CHANGING FACES.
 
BASS
 
TONY MUNNS
PETE SHAW
JULIAN SCOTT
PAUL BIRNAGE
 
DRUMS
 
ANDY POOK
GERRY BERKLEY
STUART TOSH
DAVE MATTACKS
STEFAN GRIMMETT
FRANK SCULLY
NIGE HOWARD SMITH
WHEELBARROW
 
LEAD GUITAR
 
GRAHAM GAFFNEY
IAN DIBON
BRIAN PAGGE
BIG JIM SULLIVAN
MIKE PIGGOTT
 
SAX
 
JIM PITTS
 
KEYBOARD
 
ERIC SWATON
 
VIOLIN
 
MIKE PIGGOTT
 
I ALSO FORMED A BAND CALLED OUTBACK WITH ALEC MCCABE STEFAN GRIMMETT & PAUL BIRNAGE
& SOMETIMES JULIAN SCOTT.
 
THEN COMES CORFU.
 
I FIRST STARTED SOLO THEN A FRIEND ALEX PUT ME IN TOUCH WITH ANTONY/ LEAD GUITARIST,  WE HAD A DUO & A BAND CALLED NEMESIS, WITH GEORGE ON BASS & TANNASIS ON DRUMS, AFTER SOME YEARS I REFORMED THE SUMMER BAND INTO OMEGA & OMEGA 5 WITH STEVE DELL THIS IS STILL WORKING IN THE SUMMER ALSO ON LEAD GUITAR IN OMEGA GROUCHO.
 
FATBOY & SLIM
 
THE DUO I DO WITH STEVE DELL
MUSIC COMEDY SHOW. STEVE HAS A GOOD ROCK VOICE & GOOD PRESANCE ON STAGE SO THE DUO WORKS WELL & HE IS GREAT AT FRONTING THE ROCK BAND OMEGA 5
 
 
 
 
 
 

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