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As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player.

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But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.

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Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along.

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In many ways, Viv and I were the only ones who were really songwriters.

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Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

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But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

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I used to help Viv with the chords and melodies sometimes.

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I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.

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We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on.

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Viv had this kind of stage presence where you couldn't ignore it. He walked onstage, he looked dangerous. You just didn't know what he was going to do.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: December 9th, 1944

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