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Artist
Peter Gee
12+ albums
Progressive rockNeo-progbritishProgressiveenglish
about
I joined my first band Argueda at 15 - formed with 3 school friends. We played rock covers like "Little Wing" (Jimi Hendrix), "Brown Sugar" (Rolling Stones), "Day Tripper" (The Beatles), "Stairway to Heaven" (Led Zeppelin) and "Freebird" (Lynyrd Skynyrd) - then we started writing our own songs. I can't even remember the title of the first song I ever wrote! Then after Argueda split up through people going off to college, I formed Phaedra (named after the Tangerine Dream album) - a jazz rock band. I played lead guitar in both Argueda and Phaedra. But in Phaedra, we had keyboards and flute. We wrote all our own songs which were a mixture of Camel, Jethro Tull, Return To Forever, and Chick Corea! I joined Pendragon in 1981, 22 years ago at the age of 18. They had been going since about 1976 or 77, and I had originally been a fan. When Julian Baker (the then rythmn guitarist) left, Pendragon asked me to join as second guitarist without even an audition! The band was then a five piece - drums, bass, keyboards, guitar/vox and rhythmn guitar - and did more lead guitar harmony parts in those days. I think my first Pendragon gig was at Bristol University in the student union bar. And the first song I wrote in Pendragon was called "Peace of Mind" - I wrote the music and Nigel Harris (drummer) wrote the lyrics. Unfortunately it never appeared on any recording, apart from very bad old live tapes! Then in 1983, just after we met Marillion and supported them for the first time, our bas
