1. Cliff Williams started his professional music career in 1967 and had previously been in the English groups Home and Bandit.
15 Facts About Cliff Williams
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Clifford Williams was born on 14 December 1949 in Romford, Essex.
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Cliff Williams listed The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, and blues musicians such as Bo Diddley as influences, and mostly learned to play bass by "listening to records and picking out notes", with his formal training limited to some lessons from a professional bassist in nearby Liverpool.
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Cliff Williams left school when he was 16 years old, working as an engineer by day and musician by night.
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In 1966, Cliff Williams moved to London, where he worked at a demolition site and in supermarkets while playing in various short-lived bands.
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Cliff Williams met guitarist Laurie Wisefield and the two became members of a band, Sugar, which soon broke up.
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Cliff Williams briefly played with the American band Stars before forming Bandit in 1974.
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Cliff Williams has said that his favourite albums with the band are Powerage and Back in Black.
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In 1984, Cliff Williams played bass and backing vocals on Adam Bomb's song "I Want My Heavy Metal", for the album Fatal Attraction.
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In 2011, Cliff Williams played on a benefit concert organized by Mark Farner.
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Cliff Williams said he occasionally plays with a rhythm and blues band from Fort Myers called The Juice.
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Cliff Williams spends time in the French city of Aix-en-Provence, where he has distant relatives.
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Cliff Williams's basslines were sometimes written by Malcolm and Angus Young during composition, and at other times Williams developed them based on the other instrumental tracks.
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Cliff Williams's playing technique is mostly centred around downpicking, with the occasional use of plucking to mute the strings, which he says "adds more definition and tightens up the notes, and it gives the sound less sustain".
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Cliff Williams used 3 Ampeg SVT-810E cabinets with 2 SVT-4PRO Heads, but if there was any interference with the wireless systems, he used cables in his live performances.