{"id":3402,"date":"2019-01-22T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=3402"},"modified":"2019-01-21T06:59:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T06:59:34","slug":"gone-but-not-forgotten-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=3402","title":{"rendered":"Gone but not forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bass legend and pioneer of the &#8220;This bass is gonna fuck my back up its so heavy club&#8221; Pete Overend Watts passed away on this day in 2017.\u00a0 Pete was the bass player in Mott The Hoople and not afraid to don a pair of stack-heeled, thigh high boots and play a weird bluebird headstocked\u00a0bass that more than likely weighed a tonne. He also made the Gibson Thunderbird\u00a0his weapon of choice.<\/p>\n<p>Watts was born in the Midlands in 1947 and joined Mott The Hoople at the start and played on &#8216;Mott The Hoople&#8217; in 69 and everything until &#8216;The Hoople&#8217; in 74.\u00a0 he remained in the band when they went to being called Mott then subsequently\u00a0British Lions for their two albums. As well as his playing\u00a0career Pete also turned his hand to production and co-produced\u00a0&#8216;Back To Mystery City&#8217; for Hanoi Rocks<\/p>\n<p>He died at the age of 69 from throat cancer.\u00a0 Rest in peace Pete RPM loves Mott The Hoople and now seems a good time to pay tribute to Pete and his band with a classic video.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GettyImages-85110772.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3403 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GettyImages-85110772-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GettyImages-85110772-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GettyImages-85110772-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GettyImages-85110772-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GettyImages-85110772.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YNmC-ZT-Eak?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So as it&#8217;s not all sad news today is the birthday of Steven Adler formerly the guy responsible for Guns N Roses swing and groove when they were a top rock n roll band and not just another hard\u00a0rock act.\u00a0 Shame that anyway, Happy Birthday Steven. or should we say, Michael Coletti.\u00a0Age 53. Keep on rockin\u00a0fella.<\/p>\n<div id=\"bodyContent\" class=\"mw-body-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/9214b5ccba5c48810763473858a3546e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3404 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/9214b5ccba5c48810763473858a3546e-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/9214b5ccba5c48810763473858a3546e-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/9214b5ccba5c48810763473858a3546e-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/9214b5ccba5c48810763473858a3546e-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/9214b5ccba5c48810763473858a3546e-1140x641.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/9214b5ccba5c48810763473858a3546e.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>Also born today &#8211;\u00a0Michael Hutchence and Malcolm McLaren both sadly also passed. To celebrate Mr. Adlers birthday\u00a0here&#8217;s\u00a0a video from when Guns N Roses were half tidy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1rhGAsmENpA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bass legend and pioneer of the &#8220;This bass is gonna fuck my back up its so heavy club&#8221; Pete Overend Watts passed away on this day in 2017.\u00a0 Pete was the bass player in Mott The Hoople and not afraid to don a pair of stack-heeled, thigh high boots and play a weird bluebird headstocked\u00a0bass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[585,1062,816,1044],"class_list":["post-3402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-guns-n-roses","tag-inxs","tag-mott-the-hoople","tag-the-sex-pistols","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3402"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3483,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402\/revisions\/3483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}