1. Guy Adam Pratt was born on 3 January 1962 and is a British bassist.
23 Facts About Guy Pratt
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Guy Pratt was born on 3 January 1962, in a flat above a shop on the Cut, London.
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Guy Pratt's father, Mike Pratt, was an actor, songwriter and screenwriter who died when Guy was 14.
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Guy Pratt worked for a while as a graphic designer, but decided to concentrate on a music career.
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In 1981, aged 19, Guy Pratt was asked to tour with Icehouse.
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Guy Pratt spent some time in Los Angeles where he played with Madonna and Michael Jackson.
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Guy Pratt spent nearly two weeks with Rourke and the band, learning bass lines and rehearsing, but shortly before the band was to leave Britain Rourke received his visas, and there was no need for Pratt to go.
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Guy Pratt played bass on several tracks on The Division Bell.
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Tony Levin had performed all of the bass parts on A Momentary Lapse of Reason; Guy Pratt replaced him on the later tour owing to Levin's unavailability.
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Guy Pratt toured as part of Gilmour's On an Island Tour backing band, alongside another Pink Floyd member, Richard Wright.
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Guy Pratt co-wrote many of the songs and played bass on all of the tracks on Toy Matinee's only studio album, released in 1990.
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Guy Pratt played bass on Gary Moore's Dark Days in Paradise tour in 1997.
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Besides working as a bass player, Guy Pratt is a songwriter and composes music for TV and film.
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Guy Pratt produced, co-wrote and played bass, guitar and keyboards on the music for the 1998 Channel 4 drama series The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star.
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Guy Pratt played as a regular in the backing band for the BBC Radio 2 musical comedy show Jammin' with Rowland Rivron.
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Guy Pratt spent 2011 performing stand-up in Switzerland, Australia, and at the Edinburgh Fringe, as well as on a South American tour playing bass guitar for Dominic Miller.
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Guy Pratt joined the Australian Pink Floyd Show on stage on 13 June 2011 for the Hampton Court Palace Festival for the song "Run Like Hell".
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Guy Pratt joined the UK Pink Floyd cover band Brit Floyd on stage on 9 November 2013 as a special guest during the Liverpool leg of their Pulse tour.
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Guy Pratt played his fretted 5-string and fretless 4-string Status headless basses, the amber Spector NS2, the burgundy mist "Betsy" 1963 Jazz Bass and two Precision Basses during the Division Bell Tour in 1994.
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Guy Pratt has used Rickenbacker 4001V63 and a "Sunburst" 4003 Rickenbacker bass, when playing earlier Pink Floyd songs, when performing at David Gilmour solo projects and Nick Mason's "Saucerful of Secrets" band.
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Guy Pratt's amps are usually Ashdown ABM heads and Ashdown ABM 810 cabinets, although when playing with Gilmour they are WEM-badged to match Gilmour's cabinets.
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Guy Pratt has been nominated for two Ivor Novello Awards and was awarded an ARIA Award for his work with Icehouse.
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Guy Pratt married furniture designer Gala Wright, daughter of the Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright, in 1996 in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London.