Tracy Pew
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Tracy Franklin Pew |
| Born |
19 December 1957 Australia |
| Origin | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Died | 7 November 1986 (aged 28) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Genres | Rock & roll, post-punk |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Bass guitar, double bass, wind, clarinet |
| Years active | 1975–1986 |
| Labels | Mushroom, Missing Link |
| Associated acts | The Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party, The Saints, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds |
| Notable instruments | |
| Rickenbacker 4001, Fender Jazz Bass | |
Tracy Franklin Pew (19 December 1957 – 7 November 1986) was an Australian musician: he was the bass guitarist for The Birthday Party from 1975 to its disbandment in June 1983. He was subsequently a member of The Saints and worked with former The Birthday Party band mates' group, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. As a member of The Birthday Party, Pew became associated with their "prodigious consumption of drugs and alcohol". In 1982 Pew was imprisoned for ten weeks in HM Prison Won Wron on charges relating to driving under the influence of alcohol. Pew died on 7 November 1986 of a brain haemorrhage after head injuries sustained during an epileptic seizure, he was aged 28.
Tracy Franklin Pew was born on 19 December 1957 in Australia, he moved with his family to New Zealand in 1959, they returned in May 1964. From 1972 Pew attended Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne. He lived in Mount Waverley and learnt to play bass guitar from his friend, Chris Walsh. In 1975 Pew joined a rock band, The Boys Next Door, which included his school friends Nick Cave on vocals, Mick Harvey on guitar and Phill Calvert on drums. In May 1978, they provided three tracks for the Suicide Records compilation by various artists, Lethal Weapons, including two tracks each by Teenage Radio Stars and JAB. In December 1978 The Boys Next Door added Rowland S. Howard on guitar and in April 1979, they issued their debut album, Door, Door on Mushroom Records. In October that year they released a shared single, "Scatterbrain" backed with "Early Morning Brain (It's Not Quite the Same as Sobriety)" by alternative rockers, Models. The Boys Next Door and Models were "the first Melbourne bands to rise out of the ashes of that city's hothouse punk/new wave explosion of the late 1970s with a clear vision and wider appeal. While The Birthday Party was hell-bent on kicking down the established parameters of rock music, Models were more clearly pop-oriented".
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