Greg Ridley

Greg Ridley was, during the first half of the 1970s, one of the more visible bassists in England, as a founding member of Humble Pie. Born in Cumberland, England in 1947, he became part of British rock & roll's third wave, reaching his teens just as the music's first wave was cresting. He entered music using the name Dino, part of a local band called Dino & the Danubes, and then moved through some other outfits such as the Ramrods, playing guitar and bass, before he and his longtime school friend Mike Harrison formed the V.I.P.s, a blues-based band, in 1964. They actually got ...