BOB DAISLEY Tone Talk Interview Bob, how was your experience playing with Ritchie and Cozy Powell? Looking back it hopefully was a great memory. Yeah it is a good memory. I had a good time in Rainbow. I know Ritchie had the reputation as being hard to work with and difficult and stroppy and all the rest of it but I got on fine with Ritchie. He was one of these people that he's. He doesn't suffer fools gladly, he's very aware, he knows his own mind. He knows his own what he needs and wants from a band and and musicians and so if you got on with the job, did it professionally and you were reliable, then he was happy and Rich.... He's got a a very sort of pythonesque sense of humor. He's great. He can be very dry but he's very witty you know. And Cozy was in.... I think we all in Rainbow were all Python fans and we're always reciting lines from one Python sketch or another. So yes, I had a good time in Rainbow and I remember my audition when I went down to... I was in Widowmaker and it was about August '77 I think. It was, and we're at the end of the Widowmaker US tour, and I met up with a friend of mine Dick Middleton who was the guitarist with Mungo Jerry that I had played with. And Dick said, because he knew Ritchie, he was a mate of his, Ritchie is looking for a bass player would you be interested? And I thought well you know I'd be interested. So I met up with Dick and Ritchie and we had a beer and things. Ritchie wouldn't audition people unless he knew he could at least get on with them. So there was a little social audition to start with and he said come down have a play. I went down I had a play. He put me through the paces and at the end of it all Ronny Dio, Cozy and Ritchie went off into a little office somewhere. They came back out and they said well the gig's yours if you want it. Because I said well I'll think about it, they must have thought you jumped up little fucker, who do you think you are. But I had to think about it because people were warning me about working with Ritchie. They said he could spit you out anytime. He'll chew you up, spit you out and then you got nothing. I had my band Widowmaker, that was a sort of democratic situation. Working for Ritchie I'd be a side man in Rainbow but I went for it in the end. There's a longer story in my book but in the end the decision was made for me and I joined Rainbow and I'm certainly happy and glad that I did. Tone Talk Episode 161 - November 22, 2024