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Pete Trewavas From Marillion On This Month’s Groove – The No Treble Podcast

Pete Trewavas is this month’s conversation on Groove – The No Treble Podcast.

You can listen the new episode right here: Groove – The No Treble Podcast – Episode #89 – Pete Trewavas.

Who is Pete Trewavas?

This year, Pete Trewavas celebrates his 40th anniversary as the bass player for famed prog-rock Gods, Marillion. And, while there will be plenty of opportunities for him to celebrate with the famed British rock band that formed in 1979 (but he joined in 1982, replacing Diz Minnitt), he is currently on the road with progressive rock supergroup, Transatlantic (which features, Neal Morse -ex–Spock’s Beard, Roine Stolt – Kaipa, The Flower Kings, and Mike Portnoy – ex–Dream Theater). And, that’s not all. In 2004, Pete co-founded another group called Kino, with John Mitchell (Arena), John Beck (It Bites) and Chris Maitland (ex-Porcupine Tree). If that weren’t enough, in 2011 Pete Trewavas joined up with his longtime friend Eric Blackwood to form the duo Edison’s Children. The new project was designed to be a creative outlet for Pete Trewavas (who has traditionally recorded in a band focused solely on bass and acoustic guitar), in which he could also play lead guitar, lead vocals, drum programming and keyboards as well as have full creative control over the writing and producing. The timing of Pete joining Marillion could not have been timed better. Marillion’s third album, Misplaced Childhood, in 1985 featured the massive hit Kayleigh. The band has always been focused on their fanbase, which has made them pioneers in crowd-funding and running weekend long convention-like gatherings (Marillion Weeekend), cruises and the recent release of their new studio album, An Hour Before It’s Dark. Enjoy the conversation…

What is Groove – The No Treble Podcast?

This is an ambitious effort. This will be a fascinating conversation. Our goal at Groove is to build the largest oral history of bass players. Why Groove? Most of the content about the bass revolves around gear, playing techniques, and more technical chatter. For us, bassists are creative artists with stories to tell. They are a force to be reckon with. These are the stories and conversation that we will capture. To create this oral history of why these artists chose the bass, what their creative lives are like, and where inspiration can be found.

Listen in: Groove – The No Treble Podcast – Episode #89 – Pete Trewavas.

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Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.