British - Writer | December 9, 1944 -
But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.
Neil Innes
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Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along.
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In many ways, Viv and I were the only ones who were really songwriters.
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Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.
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But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.
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I used to help Viv with the chords and melodies sometimes.
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I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.
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We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on.
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Viv had this kind of stage presence where you couldn't ignore it. He walked onstage, he looked dangerous. You just didn't know what he was going to do.
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And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything.
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I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.
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I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other.
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