On this day, 23rd May 1974, Richard Jones bass player with the Welsh band Stereophonics was born.
Jones grew up in Cwmaman, an former mining village in South East Wales. Richard originally formed the band with Kelly Jones and Stuart Cable, playing under different band names such as "Silent Runner", "Tragic Love Company" and "Mable Cable".
Describing his affinity to the bass guitar, Jones said, "Everyone else who was playing an instrument around our village was playing guitar," he explained. "So I thought it would be a lot easier to get into a band if I played a different instrument apart from guitar. I went down to the guitar shop to have a look around and I bought my first bass - a Precision copy, a fretless one. I just taught myself how to tune it and then tried to do a couple of Blues Brothers riffs on it."
