Pete Way

Best known while the bassist for UFO, Pete Method in addition has been an associate of Waysted, Fastway, and Ozzy Osbourne’s touring music group. Created August 7, 1951, in Enfield, Middlesex, Method co-founded UFO in 1969 along with vocalist Phil Mogg and drummer Andy Parker. Through the early ’70s, the group liked some success, nonetheless it wasn’t before entrance of German guitarist Michael Schenker that UFO really arrived to their very own, and released a string of important rock classics — specifically 1977’s Lighting Out, 1978’s Obsession, and 1979’s Strangers in the night time. It had been also in this period that UFO gained the title of 1 of rock’s hardest-partying rings, while Method was frequently photographed playing a low-slung Gibson Thunderbird bass and putting on a polka-dotted stage clothing. UFO soldiered on after Schenker’s leave in 1979, before Method followed fit in 1982. Co-forming Fastway with ex-Motörhead guitarist “Fast” Eddie Clarke, Method opted to leave the group soon after the discharge of its self-titled 1983 launch (which continued to become surprise strike in the U.S.), to serve as Ozzy Osbourne’s touring bassist also to type another new music group, Waysted. Releasing many albums in a brief period of your time (like the mildly effective Vices in 1983 and a self-titled launch in 1984), Waysted was over soon thereafter. The first ’90s saw Method rejoin UFO, prior to the Schenker-era UFO lineup reunited for 1995’s Walk on Drinking water. Mogg and Method have also released albums beneath the moniker Mogg/Method, and have held UFO afloat in the first 21st hundred years — with guitarist Vinnie Moore acquiring Schenker’s place. Around once, Method issued several single releases and in addition resuscitated Waysted.