Dave Pegg has played bass with Fairport Convention, Richard Thompson and Jethro Tull – but among the dozens of albums he’s been involved with, Nick Drake’s Bryter Layter satisfies him the most. “It’s such a moving album,” he say of the 1971 release. “It’s the one I listen to the most. It’s great.”
That’s high praise considering Pegg played on Jethro Tull’s 1987 album Crest of a Knave, which famously beat Metallica to a Grammy. “They’d had 50,000 t-shirts printed, I think, saying, ‘Grammy Award Winners,’” he laughs. “All they could do was use them to clean their cars, of which I imagine they had several!”
