| Dave Peverett | |
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Dave Peverett during a concert. |
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| Background information | |
| Born | 16 April 1943 |
| Origin | Dulwich, South East London, UK |
| Died | 7 February 2000 (aged 56) |
| Genres | Rock, blues |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1968–2000 |
| Labels | Bearsville, Columbia |
| Associated acts | Foghat, Savoy Brown |
| Notable instruments | |
| Gibson Box Guitar | |
David Peverett or Lonesome Dave (16 April 1943, in Dulwich, South East London - 7 February 2000) was a British musician. He is best known as the original singer and rhythm guitarist of Foghat, which he founded following his tenure in Savoy Brown.
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Peverett was an early fan of the blues and of blues-based rock and roll, and began to master these forms while performing in mid 1960s London. After a brief tour with Swiss blues band, Les Questions, he joined Savoy Brown as a rhythm guitarist, eventually also taking over as lead singer. After five albums with Savoy Brown, he decided to pursue his own vision, taking drummer Roger Earl and bassist Tony Stevens with him.
The new project took form with the addition of lead guitarist Rod Price in 1971. Peverett decided to call the new band Foghat, a nonsense word he had made up as a child while playing Scrabble with his brother John Malcome Peverett. He used his new word to create Junior Foghat, an imaginary childhood playmate who became an alter ego and therefore the genesis of the "Lonesome Dave" persona that he was to employ as a performer. Foghat soon recorded their first, self-titled album for Bearsville Records, with Todd Rundgren and Dave Edmunds each producing tracks. With the success of an early single, a cover version of Willie Dixon's "I Just Want to Make Love to You", their debut release soon went gold.
This would be the first of many gold and platinum albums for Peverett. In 1974, Foghat released two gold albums, Energized and Rock & Roll Outlaws. Their first platinum album, Fool for the City, was released in 1975, producing three hit singles: the title track, "My Babe", and "Slow Ride".
In 1976 they began touring even larger venues, and recorded another gold album, Night Shift, followed by the highly successful 1977 live album Foghat Live album. Their next album, Stone Blue, was again certified gold.
At the encouragement of Rick Rubin, Peverett reunited with the original Foghat line-up in 1993, beginning the first of several tours. He continued to write and record songs not only for Foghat, but also for a wide variety of projects, until his death from cancer in February 2000. He even embarked on what would become his final tour after receiving months of intensive chemotherapy and radiation treatments.