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What organization did Dave Pegg join in 1979?
Dave Pegg Dave Pegg ( born 2 November 1947 ) is an English multi-instrumentalist and record producer , primarily a bass guitarist . He is the longest-serving member of the British folk rock band Fairport Convention and has been bassist with a number of folk and rock groups including the Ian Campbell Folk Group and Jethro Tull . History . Early career . David Pegg was born on 2 November 1947 , at Acocks Green , Birmingham , England . He began to learn guitar when 14 or 15 , inspired by The Shadows , and played in a school band at Yardley Grammar School . After leaving school he worked as an insurance clerk for about a year while playing in a part-time bands the Crawdaddys and The Roy Everett Blues Band , who supported several performers from the Birmingham beat scene of the time , including the Spencer Davis Group and The Moody Blues . In 1966 he auditioned for The Uglys , featuring Steve Gibbons and was beaten to the position by friend and guitarist Roger Hill , but was offered the job of bass guitarist and switched instruments . The Uglys cut one single before Pegg and Hill left to form a blues trio , The Exception , with singer Alan Eastwood . At this period he played with Robert Plant and in his next band , The Way of Life , the drummer was John Bonham , later both went to form Led Zeppelin . In 1967 he joined the Ian Campbell Folk Group , where he switched to stand-up bass , learnt to play the mandolin and acquired his affection for folk music . It was also where he came to the attention of local folk guitarist Ralph McTell and former Campbell Group and future Fairport Convention member Dave Swarbrick . By early 1969 he had moved back to electric bass with The Beast , with Cozy Powell and Dave Clempson , before the latter left for Colosseum . Soon after this he joined the Birmingham band Dave Peace Quartet , and played bass on their electric blues album Good Morning Mr Blues released on SAGA FID 2155 . One week after seeing Fairport for the first time on his twenty-first birthday he was called by Swarbrick to audition for the band after the departure of Ashley Hutchings , who was soon to found Steeleye Span . Fairport Convention 1969–1979 . Pegg joined Fairport Convention towards the end of 1969 and formed a strong playing partnership with drummer Dave Mattacks and good relationships with the other members . Although Hutchings had been a solid and melodic bass player , Pegg played with greater virtuosity , complexity and energy . Ashley Hutchings credits Pegg with being the musician who began the technique of playing jigs and reels on the bass , rather than just a supportive bass line , which was subsequently adopted by most British folk rock and even folk punk bassists . All this was obvious on the 1970 tour of Britain and America ( including support for Jethro Tull ) , recordings from which surfaced on the Live at the L.A . Troubadour album ( 1977 ) . His first album with the group , Full House ( 1970 ) , showed more technically accomplished playing from the band , showing Peggs musical influence on the group . On joining the band Pegg had moved his family from Birmingham and into the former pub , the Angel in Hadham , Hertfordshire along with other group members and their families . This became the theme for the title track of the next album Angel Delight ( 1971 ) , for which Pegg received his first writing credit . On the next album Babbacombe Lee , a folk-rock opera masterminded by Swarbrick , he played a much greater role , contributing to seven of the fifteen tracks . The next album Rosie contained three of his contributions , including the song Peggys Pub a statement of a lifelong ambition . In 1971 when Simon Nicol and Dave Mattacks left the band , Pegg and Swarbrick were the only remaining members and , as a succession of personnel came ( or returned ) and left again over the next five years , their partnership kept the band running . Some of these performers , like Sandy Denny and her husband Trevor Lucas , were acknowledged songwriters and as a result , although he still made contributions and took part in collaborations , Peggs song-writing took a back seat to his instrumental and organisational skills . After the financial disaster that followed the Rising for the Moon ( 1975 ) tour , which prompted Denny , Lucas and Jerry Donahue to quit the band , Pegg became increasingly determined for the group to take control of their finances and direction and took over a larger responsibility . Pegg and Swarbrick renewed contact with Nicol in 1975 forming a low key trio , Three Desperate Mortgages , which toured student venues across Britain . With only Pegg , Swarbrick and replacement drummer Bruce Rowland left , they persuaded Nicol to rejoin the band during the Gottle OGeer album sessions . The remaining quartet signed up with Vertigo , and produced two albums , The Bonny Bunch of Roses ( 1977 ) and Tipplers Tales ( 1978 ) . Although well crafted these albums did not sell well and Vertigo bought them out of their contract . With Swarbrick suffering acute hearing problems and with no recording contract the group decided to disband and played a final concert at Cropredy in Oxfordshire on 4 August 1979 , close to where Pegg lived . While with Fairport , Pegg had played on a variety of albums for other performers . Among them were : Nick Drakes Bryter Layter ( 1970 ) ; John Martins Solid Air ( 1973 ) and One World ( 1977 ) , as well as work for current and ex-Fairporters , including several albums for Dave Swarbrick , on Sandy Dennys Like an Old Fashioned Waltz ( 1973 ) and Rendezvous ( 1977 ) and Richard Thompsons Pour Down Like Silver ( 1975 ) . He appeared on three Ralph McTell albums , including Streets ( 1973 ) , and Slide Aside the Screen ( 1976 ) , which Pegg also produced . Woodworm and Jethro Tull 1980–1985 . Although Fairport had disbanded they continued to play annual reunions at Cropredy , supplemented by New Years gigs in minor locations and occasional larger European festivals . Because no record label was interested in putting out recordings of the Cropredy concerts , Pegg and his wife Christine established their own label , Woodworm Records . They released the final concert as the album Farewell , Farewell ( 1979 ) and subsequent recordings were issued as official bootlegs . He had already established a small recording studio in his house and with the money from the end of the record deal with Vertigo , he was able to develop this and it was eventually moved to a nearby converted chapel . The result was that Pegg had his own recording facility and record label . Artists like Steve Ashley began to record albums there from 1979 . The Peggs established a mailing list of fans of the band , keeping interest in Fairport alive and , particularly Christine , took over the organization of the Cropredy Festival , which grew in size every year to reach about 18,000 attendees by the mid-1980s . In 1979 Ian Anderson invited Pegg to stand in for the ailing John Glascock on the Jethro Tull Stormwatch tour . After Glascocks death , Pegg was invited to join the band , still one of the biggest in the world , and it provided paid employment for Pegg for the next fifteen years . Pegg happened to join at a turning point for Jethro Tull . His first recording was intended as a solo album for Anderson , involving only Martin Barre from the band . The album , A ( 1980 ) was in stark contrast to the medieval and folk music inspired previous work , depending heavily on synthesizers for its sound . At this time all the other longstanding members left the band and the recording was put out as a Jethro Tull album . Pegg coped with this , and subsequent changes of style . The next album , Broadsword and the Beast ( 1982 ) had a heavier sound and more medieval theme and Pegg joined the band on stage in pseudo-medieval costume beside a Viking ship . In 1983 Pegg recorded his first solo album , The Cocktail Cowboy Goes It Alone ( 1983 ) . After the next Tull album , Under Wraps ( 1984 ) , Andersons vocal problems forced him to retire from touring for three years and Pegg had more time to pursue other projects . Reforming Fairport 1985–1995 . In 1981 Pegg joined Ralph McTell and ex-Fairport members Richard Thompson and Dave Mattacks in the GPs ( an abbreviation for the Grazed Pontiffs , after a comment by Dave Mattacks following the attempted assassination of the Pope ) . The aim was for a pub band , playing a few originals and blues , rock n roll , soul and country standards . They only gave six performances , including the Fairport reunion festival in 1981 ( at Broughton Castle , Oxfordshire ) , which Woodworm Records released a recording of the performance as Saturday Rolling Around ( 1991 ) . In the 1980s he also appeared on several recordings by other folk artists , including Murray Head and Dick Gaughan , besides those by Fairport and ex-Fairport members Simon Nicol and Richard Thompson . In 1985 Pegg , Nicol and Mattacks were also free and the trio decided to make an album of new material for the band to play at the Cropredy Festival , using the Woodworm studio and label . The result was Gladys Leap ( 1985 ) , which was generally well received in the music and national press , but caused some tension with Swarbrick who refused to play any of the new material at the 1985 Cropredy Festival . Nevertheless , the decision to reform the band , without Swarbrick , was taken by the other three remaining members . Ric Sanders was invited to join , along with guitarist , composer , arranger and multi-instrumentalist Maartin Allcock . Pegg was now in two major bands at the same time . The reformed Fairport produced an instrumental album Expletive Delighted ( 1986 ) , mainly designed to showcase the virtuosity of Sanders and Allcock . In 1987 Jethro Tull produced their first album for three years , Crest of a Knave , to which Pegg contributed and this was to be followed by an American tour , on which Anderson invited Fairport to support Jethro Tull . Needing an album to promote , Pegg negotiated financial support from Island Records and Fairport put together In Real Time ( 1987 ) . This was presented as a live album , but was actually a studio recording ( albeit with all the songs recorded as live with all the musicians playing at the same time ) with dubbed audience reactions . Although the tour was musically rewarding , it was unproductive financially and Pegg , being in both bands , left the stage with one band to return after a few minutes with the other , and the process was inevitably exhausting . Pegg played on three more Jethro Tull studio albums : Rock Island ( 1989 ) , Catfish Rising ( 1991 ) and Roots to Branches ( 1995 ) . In the same period he contributed to three studio albums by Fairport Convention : Red and Gold ( 1989 ) the Five Seasons ( 1990 ) and Jewel in the Crown ( 1995 ) . Fairports popularity and the scale of their tours were growing throughout this period and the strain of undertaking two jobs , plus his other commitments , was becoming too much and he decided to leave Tull and focus on Fairport . Focusing on Fairport 1995–present . Part of the result of this change was a higher output of albums for Fairport Convention , with five studio albums from the acoustic Old New Borrowed Blue ( 1996 ) to Over the Next Hill ( 2004 ) , beside four live albums and compilations . Pegg also released his second solo album Birthday Party ( 1998 ) , which combined recordings from a celebratory concert for his fiftieth birthday at Dudley Town Hall with studio recordings . In 1998 , Pegg formed The Dylan Project , a Bob Dylan tribute band with Simon Nicol , PJ Wright , Steve Gibbons , and Gerry Conway . In 2006 , Nicol was replaced by Birmingham keyboard player Phil Bond . They tour annually in the autumn and have produced two studio albums and a live album recorded at Cropredy Festival . In 2004 Pegg and his wife Christine divorced . The Woodworm studio was sold , and a new record label , Matty Grooves was established for the band and the group as a whole now organises the Cropredy Festival , now called Fairports Cropredy Convention . Pegg also formed Peggy & PJ , a duo with guitarist PJ Wright , who had been lead guitar with the Steve Gibbons Band , touring smaller venues and producing an album Galileos Apology in 2007 , a collection of pop and folk-rock songs and instrumentals . Pegg also had a second birthday bash at Birmingham Town Hall , released as Dave Peggs 60th Birthday Bash ( 2008 ) . In 2007 a retrospective of Peggs career was launched . A Box of Peggs contained four CDs , summarizing his work with Fairport Convention , Crawdaddy , Richard Thompson , Mike Heron , Steve Ashley , Jethro Tull , The Ian Campbell Folk Group and others . From 2010 to 2013 he appeared in France with the Breton band Red Cardell . Pegg lives in Banbury , Oxfordshire . He has a daughter , Stephanie , who works as a PR consultant : his son , Matt Pegg , is a bassist who has played with Procol Harum and Francis Dunnery . Public recognition . In 2002 Dave Pegg shared with other Fairport Convention members a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2002 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards . Discography . For Fairport Convention albums see Fairport Convention discography For Jethro Tull albums see Jethro Tull discography - As solo artist or with friends - The Cocktail Cowboy Goes It Alone ( Woodworm , 1983 ) . - Birthday Party ( Woodworm , 1998 ) . - A Box of Peggs ( Matty Grooves , 2007 ) - Dave Peggs 60th Birthday Bash ( Matty Grooves , 2008 ) - As a member of Dave Peace Quartet - Good Morning Mr Blues ( SAGA Records FID 2155 , 1969 ) - On Dana Scott and the Crown Folk album - Folk in Worship ( BBC Records , 1969 ) - On Nick Drake albums - Bryter Layter ( Island , 1970 ) - Fruit Tree ( Island , 1979 ) - Way to Blue : – An Introduction to Nick Drake ( Island , 1994 ) - Nick Drake Treasury ( Island , 2004 ) - On A . L . Lloyd albums - The Great Australian Legend ( Topic , 1971 ) - Old Bush Songs ( 1995 ) - On Mike Heron albums - Smiling Men with Bad Reputations ( Elektra , 1971 ) - On Marc Ellington albums - Rains / Reins of Changes ( B&C , 1971 ) - On Alan Taylor albums - Sometimes ( United Artists , 1971 ) - On Harvey Andrews albums - Faces and Places ( Decca Nova , 1970 ) - Writer of Songs ( Cube , 1971 ) - On Mick Greenwood albums - Living Game ( MCA , 1971 ) - On John Martyn albums - Solid Air ( Island , 1973 ) - One World ( Island , 1977 ) - Little Sweet Mysteries : the Island Anthology ( Island , 1995 ) - On Chris Darrow albums - Chris Darrow ( United Artists , 1973 ) - On Bryn Haworth albums - Sunny Side of the Street ( Island , 1973 ) - Songs and Hymns ( Kingsway , 1999 ) - On Sandy Denny Albums - Like an Old Fashioned Waltz ( Island , 1973 ) - Rendezvous ( Island , 1977 ) - Who Knows Where The Time Goes ? ( Island , 1985 ) - A Boxful of Treasures ( Fledgling , 2004 ) - On Krysia Kocjan albums - Krysia ( RCA , 1974 ) - On Steve Ashley albums - Stroll On ( Gull , 1974 ) - Steve Ashleys Family Album ( Woodworm , 1983 ) - Mysterious Ways ( Lighthouse , 1990 ) - Test of Time ( Topic , 1998 ) - Stroll On Revisited ( Market Square , 1999 ) - Everyday Lives ( Topic , 2001 ) - Acoustic Folk Box ( Topic , 2002 ) - Speedy Return ( Market Square , 2003 ) - Live in Concert ( Dusk Fire , 2006 ) - Time and Tide ( Topic , 2007 ) - On Richard & Linda Thompson albums - Pour Down Like Silver ( Island , 1975 ) - Sunnyvista ( Chrysalis , 1979 ) - Shoot Out the Lights ( Hannibal , 1982 ) - On Ralph McTell albums - Streets.. . ( Warner Brothers , 1973 ) - Right Side Up ( Warner Brothers , 1976 ) - Slide Away the Screen ( Warner Brothers , 1977 ) - Streets of London ( Warner Brothers , 1981 ) - From Claire to Here : the songs of Ralph McTell ( Red House , 1996 ) - Red Sky ( Leola , 2000 ) - On Dave Swarbrick albums - Swarbrick ( Transatlantic , 1976 ) - Swarbrick II ( Transatlantic , 1977 ) - The Ceilidh Album ( Sonet , 1978 ) - Lift the Lid and Listen ( Sonet , 1978 ) - Smiddyburn ( Logo , 1981 ) - Flittin ( Spendthrift , 1983 ) - The English Fiddler : Swarbrick plays Swarbrick ( Naxos World , 2002 ) - On Richard Thompson albums - ( guitar , vocal ) ( Island , 1976 ) - Hand of Kindness ( Hannibal , 1983 ) - Watching The Dark : The History of Richard Thompson ( Hannibal , 1993 ) - On Gay & Terry Woods albums - The Time is Right ( Polydor 1976 ) - Lake Songs from Red Waters-The Best of Gay & Terry Woods ( 2004 ) - On Dan Ar Bras albums - Douar Nevez ( Hexagone , 1977 ) - On Julie Covington albums - Julie Covington ( Fame , 1978 ) - On Craig Nuttyholme albums - Its Just a Lifetime ( A&M , 1978 ) - On Murray Head albums - Voices ( Mercury , 1980 ) - On Dick Gaughan albums - A Different Kind of Love Song ( Celtic , 1983 ) - Dick Gaughan Prentice Piece ( Green Trax , 2002 ) - On Simon Nicol albums - Before Your Time ( Woodworm , 1987 ) - With various artists - Circle Dance—The Hokey Pokey Charity Compilation ( Hokey Pokey ConeD , 1990 ) - Footsteps to Fame , vol 2 ( Repertoire , 1991 ) - Best of British Folk Rock ( Park , 1997 ) - House on Fire vol 2 , an Urban Folk Collection ( Red House , 1997 ) - Blues Britannia ( Bridge , 2000 ) - Acoustic folk box ( Topic , 2002 ) - Acoustic vol 2 ( Topic , 2002 ) - Master Craftsmen ( Terra Nova , 2002 ) - Along the Pilgrim Way ( Pickwick , 2003 ) - Best of British Folk ( Prism Leisure , 2003 ) - With The G.P.s - Saturday Rolling Around live from Broughton Castle ( Woodworm , 1991 ) - On Beryl Marriott with Fairport Convention & Chris Leslie albums - Weave The Mirror ( Woodworm , 1991 ) - On Sally Barker albums - The Rhythm is Mine ( Hannibal , 1990 ) - Another Train ( Hypertension , 2000 ) - On Linda Thompson albums - Dreams Fly Away : A History of Linda Thompson ( Hannibal , 1996 ) - Fashionably Late ( Topic , 2002 ) - On Steve Tilston and Maggy Boyle albums - All Under the Sun ( Flying Fish , 1996 ) - On Ashley Hutchings albums - The Guvnor vol 4 ( Castle , 1996 ) - On Phil Pickett albums - The Bones of All Men ( Hannibal , 1998 ) - With the Dylan Project - The Dylan Project ( Woodworm , 1998 ) - The Dylan Project...Live at Cropredy Festival ( Woodworm , 1999 ) - The Dylan Project 2 ( Matty Grooves 2005 ) - On Alan Simon albums - Excalibur : La Legende des Celtes ( Sbme , 1999 ) - Excalibur : Concert Mythique ( Epic , 2000 ) - ( EMI , 2007 ) - On Fallen Angel albums - Happy Ever After ( Tara , 1999 ) - On Jerry Donahue albums - Telecasting recast ( Pharaoh , 1999 ) - On David Hughes albums - This Other Eden ( The Folk Corporation , 1999 ) - Recognised ( The Folk Corporation , 2002 ) - On Bob Fox albums - Dreams Never Leave You ( Woodworm , 2000 ) - On Shirley Collins albums - Within Sound ( Fledgling , 2002 ) - On Chris Leslie albums - Dancing Days ( Talking Elephant , 2003 ) - On Amazing Blondel albums - Going Where the Music Takes Me ( Shakedown , 2004 ) - On Anna Ryder albums - Paper Girl ( RowdyMusic , 2004 ) - With PJ Wright - Galileos Apology ( Matty Grooves , 2007 ) - On Steve Tilston albums - Reaching Back : the Life & Music of Steve Tilston ( Free Reed , 2007 ) - On Ric Sanders albums - Still Waters ( Talking Elephant , 2008 ) - On Deborah Bonham albums - Duchess ( Warner , 2008 ) - On Tim Moon album - Invicta ( Inside Motion , due for release 2010 ) - On Red Shoes album - Ring Around The Land ( Cedarwood Records , 2009 ) External links . - Dave Pegg Biography – Fairport Conventions official website - Biography at Jethro Tull official website - The Dylan Project