Russell Webb (musician)
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Russell Webb is a New Wave
bass guitarist who was member of bands like Slik, PVC2
(both with Midge Ure
), The Zones, The Skids
, The Armoury Show
and Public Image Ltd.
, and collaborated with Richard Jobson
and Virginia Astley
, and The Who
.
and Live Aid
face, guitarist and singer Midge Ure
, drummer Kenny Hyslop
, keyboardist Billy McIsaac
and bassist Jim McGinlay
had commercial failures as a band, named Slik
, of different styles like glam
and soft rock
and bugglegum pop, playing since 1975 different promising songs like "Forever And Ever" and "Requiem", but punk rock
originated their falling, so McGinlay left early 1977. Webb, who recently dropped out university, replaced him and Slik changed their name to PVC2 and also their musical style to punk. It's unknown if McGinlay left or Webb replaced him when the band had that changes. PVC2 released one single, "Put You in the Picture
", in 1977.
's cousin Willie Gardner
to replace Ure, who went to join Glen Matlock
's Rich Kids, and founded Zones
. This band released different singles during 1978 and 1979 and one album called "Under Influence
" in the latter year. The Zones failed to get success and split up shortly afterwards.
released in 1980 and 1981s Joy, which he also produced. During that time, he was collaborating with Jobson's solo career and engineering The Who
's new recordings, which were incomplete, because that band split up.
(formerly of Magazine
and Siouxsie and the Banshees) and drummer John Doyle
(also of Magazine
) formed The Armoury Show
in 1983. They only recorded one album in their brief existence called Waiting for the Floods
, which was critically acclaimed but a commercial letdown. The band released more singles until 1988, when they broke up.
's post-Sex Pistols
band, Public Image Ltd.
, replacing bassist Allan Dias
. He was the last bassist of the band. They split-up in 1993.
, until the death of the latter in 2004.
He is now composing music for Nine Lives, an upcoming Internet TV Series.
He currently lives in Somerset
, England.
New Wave music
New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...
bass guitarist who was member of bands like Slik, PVC2
Slik
Slik were a Scottish pop group of the mid 1970s, most notable for their UK no.1 hit "Forever and Ever" in 1976. Beginning with glam rock and changing their style to soft rock/bubblegum...
(both with Midge Ure
Midge Ure
James "Midge" Ure, OBE is a Scottish guitarist, singer, keyboard player, and songwriter...
), The Zones, The Skids
The Skids
Skids were an art-punk/punk rock and new wave band from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, founded in 1977 by Stuart Adamson , William Simpson , Thomas Kellichan and Richard Jobson...
, The Armoury Show
The Armoury Show
The Armoury Show was a New Wave band formed in 1983 by Richard Jobson on vocals, Russell Webb on bass guitar, John McGeoch on guitar and John Doyle on drums. Each member was known for being in a previously acclaimed band, as Jobson and Webb were in The Skids and McGeoch and Doyle in Magazine. The...
and Public Image Ltd.
Public Image Ltd.
Public Image Ltd are an English post-punk band formed by vocalist John Lydon , guitarist Keith Levene and bassist Jah Wobble, with frequent subsequent personnel changes. Lydon is the sole constant member of the band....
, and collaborated with Richard Jobson
Richard Jobson (television presenter)
Richard Jobson is a Scottish singer-songwriter and film-maker, best known as a television presenter, film director, producer and screenwriter.-Early life:...
and Virginia Astley
Virginia Astley
Virginia Astley is an English singer-songwriter most active during the 1980s and 1990s. From the start of her songwriting career in 1980, Astley took her inspiration from many sources. Her classical training influenced her as did a desire to be experimental with her music...
, and The Who
The Who
The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...
.
Slik and PVC2
In 1977, future UltravoxUltravox
Ultravox is a British New Wave rock band. They were one of the primary exponents of the British electronic pop music movement of the late 1970s/early 1980s. The band was particularly associated with the New Romantic and New Wave movements....
and Live Aid
Live Aid
Live Aid was a dual-venue concert that was held on 13 July 1985. The event was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine. Billed as the "global jukebox", the event was held simultaneously in Wembley Stadium in London, England, United Kingdom ...
face, guitarist and singer Midge Ure
Midge Ure
James "Midge" Ure, OBE is a Scottish guitarist, singer, keyboard player, and songwriter...
, drummer Kenny Hyslop
Kenny hyslop
Kenny Hyslop is a Scottish drummer who played with different projects and bands who were varied in different styles, such as glam rock, 1970s teenybop, soft rock, punk, new wave, new romantic, blues and modern electronica.-Biography:Hyslop attended Hermitage School.He joined the band Salvation...
, keyboardist Billy McIsaac
Billy McIsaac
Billy McIsaac is a musician, who played mainly keyboards since his early days with different pop bands, and still does, with his current ceremony-band The Billy McIsaac Band....
and bassist Jim McGinlay
Jim McGinlay
Jim McGinlay was a Scottish bass guitarist who formed along his elder brother Kevin a hard-rock band called Salvation, in Glasgow, which after numerous line-up changes included Midge Ure, future Ultravox frontman and Live 8 contributor, Billy McIsaac and Kenny Hyslop.By 1964, he began his musical...
had commercial failures as a band, named Slik
Slik
Slik were a Scottish pop group of the mid 1970s, most notable for their UK no.1 hit "Forever and Ever" in 1976. Beginning with glam rock and changing their style to soft rock/bubblegum...
, of different styles like glam
Glam rock
Glam rock is a style of rock and pop music that developed in the UK in the early 1970s, which was performed by singers and musicians who wore outrageous clothes, makeup and hairstyles, particularly platform-soled boots and glitter...
and soft rock
Soft rock
Soft rock is a style of music which uses the techniques of rock music to compose a softer, more toned-down sound. Soft rock songs generally tend to focus on themes like love, everyday life and relationships. The genre tends to make heavy use of acoustic guitars, pianos, synthesizers and sometimes...
and bugglegum pop, playing since 1975 different promising songs like "Forever And Ever" and "Requiem", but punk rock
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
originated their falling, so McGinlay left early 1977. Webb, who recently dropped out university, replaced him and Slik changed their name to PVC2 and also their musical style to punk. It's unknown if McGinlay left or Webb replaced him when the band had that changes. PVC2 released one single, "Put You in the Picture
Put You In The Picture
"Put You in the Picture" is a song written by Midge Ure, and performed by his group PVC2, who comprised Ure on guitar and lead vocals, Kenny Hyslop on drums, Billy McIsaac on keyboards and Russell Webb on bass guitar...
", in 1977.
Zones
By late 1977/early 1978, Webb and the rest of PVC2 called Alex HarveyAlex Harvey (musician)
Alex Harvey was a Scottish rock musician. With The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, he built a reputation as an exciting live performer during the 1970s glam rock era.-Biography:...
's cousin Willie Gardner
Willie Gardner
Willie Gardner was a Scottish musician, who formed part of various pop and rock bands in the 1970s and 1980s, playing guitar. He was a cousin of the glam rock icon Alex Harvey....
to replace Ure, who went to join Glen Matlock
Glen Matlock
Glen Matlock is an English bass guitarist most famous for being in the original line-up of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. Drummer Paul Cook has said that Matlock came up with much of the music for the band's songs and most of the lyrics, while lead singer Johnny Rotten made some adjustments...
's Rich Kids, and founded Zones
Zones (band)
Zones was a British punk and power pop band founded in 1977, after the end of PVC2 and the Midge Ure's membership demise. PVC2 was conformed by Ure on guitar, Russell Webb on bass, Billy McIsaac on keyboards and Kenny Hyslop on drums...
. This band released different singles during 1978 and 1979 and one album called "Under Influence
Under Influence
Under Influence was the only album of New Wave band Zones, released by Arista Records in mid-1979. The album contained multi-genred songs, being very far from the early punkier stuff, like the case of 7" single "Stuck with You"...
" in the latter year. The Zones failed to get success and split up shortly afterwards.
The Skids
Without Kenny Hyslop and Billy McIsaac, he joined The Skids halfway through their career in February 1980, replacing co-founding member William Simpson. Webb performed on the last two Skids albums, The Absolute GameThe Absolute Game
-Strength Through Joy:All tracks composed by Skids.-2008 re-release:All tracks composed by Skids unless indicated otherwise.-Personnel:* Richard Jobson — vocals / guitar...
released in 1980 and 1981s Joy, which he also produced. During that time, he was collaborating with Jobson's solo career and engineering The Who
The Who
The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...
's new recordings, which were incomplete, because that band split up.
The Armoury Show
After The Skids broke up, he and Jobson along with guitarist John McGeochJohn McGeoch
John Alexander McGeoch, , was a Scottish guitarist who played with a number of bands of the post-punk era, including Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Visage and Public Image Ltd....
(formerly of Magazine
Magazine (band)
Magazine are an English post-punk group active from 1977 to 1981, then reformed in 2009. Their debut single, "Shot by Both Sides", is now acknowledged as a classic and their debut album, Real Life, is still widely admired as one of the greatest albums of all time...
and Siouxsie and the Banshees) and drummer John Doyle
John Doyle (drummer)
John Doyle is a drummer who was member of New Wave bands like Magazine and The Armoury Show. He reunited with the first band for a tour which will be played in February 2009.-Biography:...
(also of Magazine
Magazine (band)
Magazine are an English post-punk group active from 1977 to 1981, then reformed in 2009. Their debut single, "Shot by Both Sides", is now acknowledged as a classic and their debut album, Real Life, is still widely admired as one of the greatest albums of all time...
) formed The Armoury Show
The Armoury Show
The Armoury Show was a New Wave band formed in 1983 by Richard Jobson on vocals, Russell Webb on bass guitar, John McGeoch on guitar and John Doyle on drums. Each member was known for being in a previously acclaimed band, as Jobson and Webb were in The Skids and McGeoch and Doyle in Magazine. The...
in 1983. They only recorded one album in their brief existence called Waiting for the Floods
Waiting for the Floods
Waiting for the Floods is the first and only full-length album released by British rock band The Armoury Show, and frontman Richard Jobson's last known venture in music, other than his brief reunion with The Skids in the early 2000s...
, which was critically acclaimed but a commercial letdown. The band released more singles until 1988, when they broke up.
Public Image Ltd.
In mid-to-end 1992, Webb joined John LydonJohn Lydon
John Joseph Lydon , also known by the former stage name Johnny Rotten, is a singer-songwriter and television presenter, best known as the lead singer of punk rock band the Sex Pistols from 1975 until 1978, and again for various revivals during the 1990s and 2000s...
's post-Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians...
band, Public Image Ltd.
Public Image Ltd.
Public Image Ltd are an English post-punk band formed by vocalist John Lydon , guitarist Keith Levene and bassist Jah Wobble, with frequent subsequent personnel changes. Lydon is the sole constant member of the band....
, replacing bassist Allan Dias
Allan Dias
Allan Dias is an Indian football player. He is currently playing for Air India FC in the I-League in as a midfielder.-External links:* http://www.goal.com/en-india/people/india/39222/allan-dias...
. He was the last bassist of the band. They split-up in 1993.
After popular music career
After Pil, he formed a band, and retired to be a videogame designer, and wrote TV scores with his Armoury Show mate, John McGeochJohn McGeoch
John Alexander McGeoch, , was a Scottish guitarist who played with a number of bands of the post-punk era, including Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Visage and Public Image Ltd....
, until the death of the latter in 2004.
He is now composing music for Nine Lives, an upcoming Internet TV Series.
He currently lives in Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
, England.
External links
- Myspace: Russell Webb Russell Webb MySpace site