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Ayrshire Bands of the '60s and early
70s
The Chase
The Chase: Mainly from Saltcoats.
In existence from mid 60s-mid 80s. John Pettigrew - guitar, Jim McWhinnie on C3
& Rhodes, John Boyd vocals & bass (earlier days it was wee Jim Whatever)
plus various drummers. Played along side most of the above bands. Resident in
the Bobby Jones cellar, worked for Tam Paton, spent obligatory year playing
bases in Germany. You name it they probably played it. John Boyd had/has a band
in Shetland called Pure Greed that made a CD and had/has a website. Info: John
Pettigrew.
All pics from Bill Briceland - many thanks Bill.
This info from Bill Briceland: I used to manage the Chase. Jim Slaven was the singer before John Boyd. Tam Paton used to book the Chase for me in the east coast and I would book the Bay City Rollers for him in the west. The Chase basically were a pop band at that time and I had them playing 3 - 4 nights a week sometimes doing double bookings. Jim McWhinney bought an open top Cadillac and the band used to go to gigs in it while the roadies drove a furniture removal van. They decided to go "heavy" and I found it difficult to get them bookings after that.
An update
from Jim mc Whinnie: Still
playing mainly old folks homes (soon be there myself). Very sad
Jim, Slaven the
original singer with the Chase died a very untimely death last year he
was a great singer who became even better in later years. Jock
Boyd, great
singer and performer is now in Australia. John Pettigrew is
way up in
Hebrides (Orkney actually says J.P.). John Walker stays in Newcastle. Bill Bryceland
was a great manager but
we would not listen to him and we went on a self destruct course after
leaving him. I've lost touch with everyone as happens but have
many fond memories of them all.
Note the extra instrumentation - congas, 12 string acoustic & flute.
Cheers.