Bob Thompson
Bob was playing in bands through the sixties, in the North-East of England, in such well known places as the Majestic Ballroom, Newcastle, The Mayfair, The Blaydon Races and the never to be forgotten Club-a Gogo in that town, as well as the famous Cellar Club in South Shields, playing the week before Cream, and the week after Hendrix!
www.readysteadygone.co.uk to check out the sixties in the North-East.
On arriving in Nottingham in the early seventies, he joined up with Mick Preston
to form Sahara, a popular club band playing chart hits. After Sahara broke up
(Mick went on to form Lefty, and from there to the iconic Dawn Trader.) Bob
carried on with drummer Tim Davis (now with Devils Advocate) to form Buccaneer,
and from there, Hotel. In the early eighties, Hotel broke up (the singer, Tony
Osbourne, forming the Fab Four) and he went to Pepperbox, another well known
Notts club band. After a lay-off of some years, Tim Davis persuaded him to help
form Blind Panic, again with Mick Preston as vocalist. Blind Panic broke up in
2003, and Bob and Mick formed The Project, with Dave Thompson (also now with
Devils Advocate). The Project ran for some time together with Carnaby Rocks, the
first playing in pubs, and the latter in the clubs. When Drummer Richard ‘Cokey’
Coleman bowed out to play with a Led Zeppillin tribute band , the rest of the
band decided to concentrate on Carnaby. Bob and Mick are still in the band,
going through one or two reincarnations, before settling with the line up as you
see it here.
Bob uses a Fender Precision bass, a G&L ASAT bass and a G&L 2000. He plays them
through Peavey and Ashdown amplification.
with Buccaneer, 1976 with Blind Panic 2003 poster from Hotel, 1978 and on stage
Sahara, 1974, with Mick Preston