Re: Del Palmer? (Kate Bush)

["Roy J. Smith" <Roy.J.Smith@att.com>]

Hi all,

This was posted on rec.music.makers.bass.
I had never heard the part about her singing
in her brother's (Paddy's I presume) band
(or is this really the KT Bush band?).
Being considerably less than a Demo-god,
I'm not in a position to confirm nor refute this.

Roy
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A.J. Kandy wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, J Greene wrote:
> 
> > Anyone got info on this guy?  He played on some of Kate Bush's stuff,
> > and I think he used a Wal fretless.  Great sound.
> >
> >

> Well, from what the Kate Bush: Visual Documentary sez (Omnibus, 1990)
> Del was the original bassist in Kate's older brother's band, which was
> yer average pub-rock 70's thing with Celtic influences. Kate became the
> band's default singer while still in her teens, playing local Kent pubs
> like the Hope and Anchor. On her original EMI-Harvest recordings her
> producers insisted on replacing her "live" band with well-known studio
> musicians from bands like Pilot. Later, as she took more control over her
> own work, she brought in the original band (Del was by this time her
> boyfriend). Palmer produced her 1990 album The Sensual World. The couple
> split up sometime around the recording of the Red Shoes album.
> Palmer's been photographed with a JayDee bass: I don't know if he ever
> had a Wal.
> Other fretless players who've guested on Kate's albums include Mick Karn
> (formerly of Japan) and John Giblin (Simple Minds, Brand X), who use
> Wal/Klein and Zon basses, respectively.
> 
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