Andy Fraser

yeah do you want milk in your tea it's like you can't give me a cup of tea how did they

Well, yeah, I suppose there's been a few points in this journey that I've been doing the interviewing with some friends that you do pinch yourself and go, is that really happening? Am I really sitting here talking to Andy Fraser from Free after the interview about basses? And I was a bass player and I learnt to play bass listening to Jack Bruce from Cream and Andy Fraser in Free.

And I was talking to that guy...

Do you ever think they're just weary of people kissing their arse and to actually talk to someone about what is their hobby anyway is just refreshing?

But Free was fir- my first successful band, and they were wonderful people.

I mean, Andy Fraser on bass, and Simon Kirke on drums, and, and my favorite guitarist of all time, Paul Kossoff, on guitar.

Now, w- Paul Kossoff and I formed Free, and we had the initial idea because I was playing in a blues band in a, in a pub in Finsbury Park in London.

And he came along, Paul Kossoff came along, and said, "You know, can I get up on stage and jam?" I said, "Yeah, sure man, let's go." And so he got up on stage, and we played some blues.

I think for a three-piece, which essentially is what they were, a three-piece and a singer, I think they made the best of the three-piece idiom.

And I was very enamored with the bass player, Andy Fraser.

who was probably responsible for me taking up the bass guitar and wanting to give it a go, you know.

I thought his style was very unusual.

And we went to Bridlington Spa, Donny Top Rank, Sheffield Uni, and we saw... like a roaring lion with massive mane playing all them riffs.

Andy Fraser on bass, it was fantastic.

And so they had an album out called Tons of Sobs Before Fire and Water.

And so we called ourselves Sob.

know.

Andy Fraser was a badass, man.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Andy Fraser and then Boz Burrell came in later, right?

Right.

Oh, yeah.

Andy Fraser was free.