And Scotland’s Greatest Ever Bassist is…
by The Dear
…Derek Forbes, according to the readers of Dear Scotland. Many thanks to the thousands of new visitors to the site in the past week who voted. Derek joins Stuart Adamson and Paul Thomson in Dear Scotland’s Greatest Ever Supergroup. Some great DF moments below:
Despite the final percentages, this was a fairly close vote between all five of these great Scottish musicians until yesterday. All of the nominees actually led the poll at one time or another until Derek Forbes began to stretch out a lead over the weekend.
Then, with less than 24 hours until the poll closed, an army of Dougie Payne fans emerged from nowhere (or perhaps from www.travisonline.com) to sweep the Travis man into first place by yesterday afternoon. But in the end it was Derek Forbes, the Simple Minds, Propaganda and FourGoodMen bassist, who emerged victorious.
All is not lost for Dougie Payne though as there has been some chatter on twitter about a spin-off band featuring the musicians who have finished in 2nd place in each of the Dear Scotland polls.
Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite, our 2nd greatest guitarist, suggested this band should be called the “second bests” or “the runners up” , whereas our 2nd greatest drummer, Errors’ James Hamilton, preferred “The Silver Medals” .
Suggestions are now welcome for Scotland’s Greatest Ever Vocalist but in the meantime congratulations to the immortal Derek Forbes. Thanks for 30 years of beautiful music:
…
Simple Minds -- ‘King Is White And In The Crowd’, 1982
…
Simple Minds -- ‘Waterfront’, 1984
…
Propaganda -- ‘Murder of Love’, 1985
…
Derek Forbes -- ‘I Travel’, 2008
…
Photo Credit: Phillipe Carly, New Wave Photos
Great black and white shot of the winner! Very kraftwerk!Derek you deserve the crown! Well done!
by Jimmy Fontana
on 09 Dec, 2009 2:53pm
Thanks to everyone for voting me to the Top. It is an honour.
by Derek Forbes
on 09 Dec, 2009 5:55pm
The Big Man Hath Spoken.
by Anonymous
on 09 Dec, 2009 6:31pm
well in dad
by Kai Forbes
on 09 Dec, 2009 11:04pm
Great to see people are still pationate about Scottish music and thank you Derek for some kick ass bass lines.
by Alec
on 10 Dec, 2009 2:28am
PS: I love the fact Kai posted and I have to keep my dyslexia in check doh
by Alec
on 10 Dec, 2009 2:35am
No disrespect to Travis who I like as a band but for Dougie Payne to score higher than Jack Bruce is criminal. Cream were pioneers in the industry.
by Dave
on 10 Dec, 2009 1:21pm
belated congrats to Dan – you are the biz
by Gregski
on 09 Jan, 2010 6:23pm
Yeaaa! I’m Ben!
>: ]
by Ben MacNeil
on 13 Jan, 2010 6:58pm
Phil Agnew of Nazereth and Jack Bruce would wipe the floor with the lot .
by Anonymous
on 04 Feb, 2010 3:32pm
Phil Agnew my arse!!!!!
by Anonymous
on 13 Mar, 2010 1:08am
How truly awesome this “Scottish Supergroup” would be. Too bad the great Stuart Adamson isn’t with us to do for a laugh (or better yet a charity single).
by Margaret
on 15 Aug, 2010 2:12am