Vybik Jon wrote: Apologies. I'm not saying Phil was a bad bass player at all, just not in the greatest category. Certainly class. I think his true genius was in song writing and I'm sure I read somewhere that bass wasn't his first choice of instrument.
Totally agree. He was a bass player of convenience but as a songwriter, vocalist and front man in the pre-punk era he was close to incomparable. Alex Harvey and Rory would be in there with him but there are not many in that league.
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