Alan Davey (musician)
Alan Davey (born 11 September 1963, in Ipswich, Suffolk) was the bass player in Hawkwind, Bedouin and is the bass player for The Meads of Asphodel his latest band is Gunslinger.Best known as the second longest serving member of Hawkwind, joining in 1984 and leaving in June 2007. He had a break from the band between 1996 and 2001.In march 2007 he released the very well received album "Human on the Outside".He is also working on a variety of projects including an album with former Hawkwind stalwart Simon House which will also feature contributions from multi instrumentalist Josh "Dreamspirit"and a CD EP of Arabic flavoured material with former Hawkwind vocalist Bridget Wishart again with contributions from Josh Dreamspirit and Kevin M Sommers. March 2008 saw the release of the debut album by Alan Davey's new band Gunslinger entitled "Earthquake in E Minor".Earthquake is the brainchild of Davey and his cousin Nigel Potter.The album features some of the material that the pair had written between 1979 and 1982 during the bands first inception. A touring line up of Davey(bass),James Tait(guitars)& Sunil Jolly(drums) took to the road in the UK in march 2008 with shows confirmed up to christmas 2008.
Alan Davey, like many previous Hawkwind bassists (including Lemmy), uses a Rickenbacker bass, in the 4000 series.
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