Eric Griffiths

Of many fellows who drifted in and from the Quarry Men in the later 1950s, guitarist Eric Griffiths was among the less popular, although he did have the ability to stay static in the band through a lot of 1958. It really is generally recognized that John Lennon initial recruited his closest friend Pete Shotton (on washboard) when he motivated to create a music group in 1957. Within a 1997 problem of the United kingdom mag Record Collector), Griffiths provided a different edition. Griffiths, who like Lennon and Shotton visited the Quarry Loan company SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL for Boys, stated he and Lennon attempted to learn your guitar together for the intended purpose of playing in an organization prior to the Quarry Guys were produced. In the same content, he continued to say that after Paul McCartney and George Harrison became a member of the music group, McCartney and Lennon asked Griffiths, who wasnot as musically talented as the three others, to try out bass. Griffiths wasn’t thinking about doing this, and still left the group quickly afterward, signing up for the Product owner Navy. He had not been mixed up in Quarry Males reunion recording Open up for Engagements in 1994, but do play with ex-Quarry Males Pole Davis, Len Garry, Pete Shotton, and Colin Hanton within the 40th wedding anniversary from the Quarry Males gig of which John Lennon and Paul McCartney 1st met.