Gregory Ross Gillett     1954 - 2001
 
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  "In about 1974 I answered a hand written advertisement in the music shop at Wentworthville which read:

' BAND WANTS BASS GUITARIST
PLAYS - ELP, YES, STONES, ZEPPELIN
Call Greg on 123 4567'

I answered the ad and turned up to the band room at Greg's parent's house in Westmead with my Excalibur Beatle Bass copy. Sure enough this band did play the exciting repertoire promised in the ad!

Greg introduced me to Dave Eager on Guitar and Dave Brown on drums, he tuned my bass, pointed to the music and we were off!

It was a different world then - no VCR's - no cable TV - no CD's or personal computers. Good information about performance practice was hard to come by - to say the least! Nevertheless at this early stage Greg had already developed the ability to sing like Mick Jagger - Jon Andersen (Yes) and Elton John. He could play a "workman's" style of guitar which was adequate to write songs. He could play barrel-house boogie, classical and jazz piano. And he had already composed lengthy pieces of music inspired by ELP and Yes - multi movement classical-rock works with vocals."



Peter Inglis