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Colin Bass
12+ albums
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Colin Bass, also known as Sabah Habas Mustapha (born May 4, 1951 in London, England), is a British progressive rock musician, bassist, record producer, also an active member of a prog-rock band Camel. First started playing professionally in 1968 as guitarist with a band called The Krisis, playing the UK club and ballroom circuit, after which he switched to bass guitar and formed The Daisy Showband with guitarist Ian Gomm before joining Velvet Opera in 1970 with whom he made his first recordings for Spark Records. In 1971 he joined an incarnation of the 60’s chart-topping group The Foundations and spent a year playing the cabaret clubs mostly in northern England. In 1971 former band-mate Ian Gomm, who had since become a member of Brinsley Schwarz, introduced Colin to Ernie Graham, formerly of Eire Apparent and, together with guitarist Jonathan Glemser, they formed the band Clancy. The band became part of London’s growing Pub-Rock scene and briefly signed with Island Records but were dropped after differences with producer Muff Winwood. Shortly afterwards the band signed with Warner Brothers and recorded two albums: “Seriously Speaking” (1974) and “Every Day” (1975). The line-up on both was: Bass (bass, vocals), Ernie Graham (guitar, vocals), Gasper Lawal (percussion) Dave Vasco (guitar), Dave Skinner (keyboards, vocals) and Barry Ford (drums, vocals). Clancy split in 1976 and Colin joined Steve Hillage, who was putting together a band to promote the album “L” on a six-mon
