Dave Pegg (born David Pegg, 2 November 1947 in Acocks Green, Birmingham, England) is a bassist/multi-instrumentalist. After playing guitar in school bands, he became a professional musician in the mid 1960s. He failed an audition as guitarist with The Uglys, a Birmingham-based rock band led by Steve Gibbons, but was offered the job of bassist. Pegg also played double bass for a short while with Birmingham based folk ensemble, The Ian Campbell Folk Group. During this stint he met Birmingham fiddle-player Dave Swarbrick, who introduced Pegg to Fairport Convention in 1970. Ashley Hutchings, the band's founder and bassist, had left to form Steeleye Span and Pegg took over. Pegg's tenure with Fairport has been unbroken since then. When Fairport first disbanded in 1979, Pegg joined the rock band Jethro Tull and he played with them for much of the 1980s. However, Fairport reformed as a full-time band in 1985 with Pegg still on bass. In 1987 Jethro Tull toured the U.S. with Fairport Convention as support act: Pegg played in both bands at each concert. Pegg has released two solo albums: The Cocktail Cowboy Goes It Alone (1983) and Birthday Party (1998), both on Woodworm Records. Dave also plays mandolin and bouzouki. In 2007 he recorded "Galileo's Apology" as a duo with guitarist PJ Wright. PJ had been lead guitar with the Steve Gibbons Band. The album was a collection of pop and folk-rock songs and instrumentals. Since 1979, Fairport has staged Cropredy Festival, a three-day music event in Oxfordshire. Until recently it was organised by Pegg and his former wife Christine: since their divorce, the band as a whole organises the festival, now called Fairport's Cropredy Convention. In 2007 "A Box of Pegg's" was released. The 4 CDs contained a career summary of his work with Fairport Convention, Crawdaddy, Richard Thompson, Mike Heron, Steve Ashley, Jethro Tull, The Ian Campbell Folk Group and others. Pegg now 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, among others, Procol Harum and Francis Dunnery.
The Dylan Project
Starting in 1998, several musicians formed a Bob Dylan tribute band, touring annually in the autumn. They were Simon Nicol, PJ Wright, Steve Gibbons, Dave Pegg and Gerry Conway. So far they have released two albums.
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| Maartin Allcock • Dan Ar Braz • Bob Brady • Roger Burridge • Gerry Conway • Sandy Denny • Jerry Donahue • Judy Dyble • Tom Farnell • Roger Hill • Ashley Hutchings • Martin Lamble • Chris Leslie • Trevor Lucas • Dave Mattacks • Iain Matthews • Simon Nicol • Dave Pegg • David Rea • Bruce Rowland • Ric Sanders • Dave Swarbrick • Richard Thompson • Paul Warren | |
| Studio albums | Fairport Convention (1968) • What We Did on Our Holidays (1969) • Unhalfbricking (1969) • Liege & Lief (1969) • Full House (1970) • Angel Delight (1971) • Babbacombe Lee (1971) • Rosie (1973) • Nine (1973) • Rising for the Moon (1975) • Gottle O'Geer (1976) • The Bonny Bunch of Roses (1977) • Tipplers Tales (1978) • Gladys Leap (1985) • Expletive Delighted (1986) • In Real Time (1987) • Heyday (1987) • Red and Gold (1989) • The Five Seasons (1990) • Jewel in the Crown (1995) • Old New Borrowed Blue (1996) • Who Knows Where the Time Goes (1997) • Cropredy 98 (1999) • The Wood and the Wire (1999) • XXXV (2001) • Over the Next Hill (2004) • Sense of Occasion (2007) |
| Singles | "If I Had a Ribbon Bow" (1968) • "Meet on the Ledge" (1968) • "I'll Keep It With Mine" (1969) • "Si Tu Dois Partir" (1969) • "If (Stomp)" (1970) • "Now Be Thankful" (1970) |
| Live albums | Fairport Live Convention (1974) • Live at the L.A. Troubadour (1977) • Farewell Farewell (1979) • Moat on the Ledge - Live at Broughton Castle (1982) • House Full (1986) • 25th Anniversary Concert (1992) • The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood (2004) • Journeyman's Grace (2005) • Off the Desk (2006) • Live at the BBC (2007) |
| Compilations | History of Fairport Convention (1972) • Tour Sampler (1975) • The Woodworm Years (1991) • Rhythm of the Times (2003) |
| Box sets | The Cropredy Box (1998) |
| Related Articles | Fairport's Cropredy Convention (Cropredy Festival) • Jethro Tull |
