Pete Sears

Pete Sears  (born 27 May 1948) is an English rock musician.  In a career spanning more than four decades, he has been a member of many bands and has moved through a variety of musical genres, from early R&B, psychedelic improvisational rock of the 1960s, folk, country music, arena rock in the 1970s, and blues.  He usually plays bass, keyboards, or both in bands.  Sears played on four classic Rod Stewart albums, including Every Picture Tells A Story; during this period, Sears toured the US with Long John Baldry blues band, and played with John Cipollina in Copperhead.  Sears was with Jefferson Starship (1974 to 1984) and its offspring Starship (1985 to 1987).  He went on to play with Jorma Kaukonen, Michael Falzarano, Jack Casady, and Harvey Sorgen in Hot Tuna.  (More from Wikipedia)

 

Jefferson Starship proper can be dated to the 1974 album Dragon Fly, but the album was still credited to Paul Kantner and Grace Slick as well as Jefferson Starship.  Their first big hit song “Miracles” had a timeless quality, to me at least – it felt as though the song had always been there.  The line-up included Pete Sears, an alumnus of past UARB the Sons of Fred. 

(June 2014)