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Introducing Derek Bounty (1895-69) – double bassist (1956-63)


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1956


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Shortly after immigrating to New York City, the brothers began busking with 63-year-old Derek Bounty on double bass. Derek has an argument with the band in 1963, after their trip to India and the recording of “We Are, the Colors”. He refuses to play a cover for the B side of the single, a tune later to become the Super Mario theme. He was the first of many bass players to feature in the Colors. He dies 1969 while the Colors work on the Slaughterhouse 5 show, in his home of natural causes.


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