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The proud owner of a broken Grammy award is regarded as a revelation in folk rock with Fairport Convention – but he only played bass that way because he didn’t know what else to do

Dave Pegg has played bass with Fairport Convention, Richard Thompson and Jethro Tull – but among the dozens of albums he’s been involved with, Nick Drake’s Bryter Layter satisfies him the most. “It’s such a moving album,” he say of the 1971 release. “It’s the one I listen to the most. It’s great.”

That’s high praise considering Pegg played on Jethro Tull’s 1987 album Crest of a Knave, which famously beat Metallica to a Grammy. “They’d had 50,000 t-shirts printed, I think, saying, ‘Grammy Award Winners,’” he laughs. “All they could do was use them to clean their cars, of which I imagine they had several!”

He left Tull in the mid-’90s, focusing solely on Fairport Convention. It all started when he switched from guitar to bass many years ago. “I got more fun out of being in a group playing bass,” he says. “The responsibility wasn’t being out front, shaking your ass and coming up with incredible solos.

When I meet young people who say, ‘I’m thinking of taking up guitar,’ I tell them, ‘Just take up the bass – it’s so much easier. And as far as I know, you get the same money!”