Peter Watts

Peter Overend Watts (born Peter Watts, 13 May 1947, Yardley, Birmingham, England) is a bass guitar player and founding member of 1970s rock band, Mott the Hoople. He continued with Dale "Buffin" Griffin and Morgan Fisher in the Mott successor British Lions, until their demise around 1979. Overend's bass of choice was a white Gibson Thunderbird, one of which was later sold to Wishbone Ash bassist Martin Turner. In 1978 he sold Shanne Bradley, female bassist with The Nipple Erectors, The Nips and The Men They Couldn't Hang, a customized cream Gibson Thunderbird bass guitar which can be heard on many of her recordings. Watts later became a record producer and is credited with producing albums for artists such as Hanoi Rocks, Dumb Blondes,...