Harvey Frederick Bainbridge (born 24 September 1949,

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bass and

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player. He is best known as the bass player and keyboard player in

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Career

Bainbridge's first musical group was when he was at school. A group of friends formed a band called Fredsfuzz with Martin Bland on vocals, brother Lawrence on drums, Gary Tinson on lead, Bainbridge, having just purchased a bass guitar and amplifier, and 'Fred' Davis on organ. The group was a

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band, playing

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covers etc. Later, Bainbridge was a member of a group in Devon called Ark. Another member was Martin Griffin who also later played in the Hawklords and Hawkwind. He initially joined Hawkwind members

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and Robert Calvert in 1977 in a band called Sonic Assassins in which he played bass guitar. Sonic Assassins was formed by Brock to exist alongside Hawkwind, but to focus on playing local concerts around the South West of England. When Hawkwind split up after the 1978 tour of the

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, Bainbridge was asked to play for Brock and Calvert's new band

Hawklords Hawklords were an English music group active between 1978 and 1979. Members were from Hawkwind, who were inactive during that period, (Robert Calvert – vocals, Dave Brock – guitar and Simon King – drums) and a local Devon group named A ...

.Strong, Martin C. (2001) ''The Great Metal Discography'', MOJO Books, , p. 246 By 1979, the Hawklords had largely disintegrated and although the legal ownership of the name "Hawkwind" was still in doubt, Brock and Bainbridge re-created Hawkwind. Bainbridge continued to play bass with Hawkwind until late 1984. He then became the band's primary keyboard player, as Brock recruited the 20-year-old Alan Davey into the band to play bass. Bainbridge continued in this role until 1991. Since leaving Hawkwind, he has worked mainly as a solo performer but has also performed with Lancashire space rockers Earthling Society at a number of their shows. Bainbridge with Spaceseed released an album on Zeta Reticuli Records called ''The Empire of Night'' in 2006. Bainbridge was involved in the formation of a new

in 2008 and continued with them until 2020.

References

External links

Harvey Bainbridge websiteComplete discography
* * 1949 births Living people Hawkwind members English keyboardists English rock bass guitarists Male bass guitarists Musicians from Dorset Progressive rock bass guitarists {{UK-keyboardist-stub