In 1968 he was recruited to play bass with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers on the "Bare Wires" LP. Next, he co-founded Colosseum in 1970, playing on their first three albums before leaving for session work, playing with and/or producing a number of artists, including the Woods Band, Sandy Denny, Paul Kent, John Martyn, Days of the Phoenix, and Chris DeBurgh. In 1972 he joined his friend Dave Greenslade from Colosseum, in Greenslade's own eponymous band and stayed through 1974.

When John Perry left Curved Air following the BTM "Midnight Wire" re-recording sessions, Tony was asked to join. He toured with the band and appeared on the "Airborne" and "Live at the BBC" recordings. He co-wrote "Broken Lady" and "Touch of Tequila."

Tony recently contacted us -- he's living just on the northern outskirts of London, in Bushey, just south of Watford, about 19 miles from the centre of London.

"I run a company called MTR which makes audio equipment for bands and studios. Take a look at our website at www.mtraudio.com. I have almost finished it, although there is a lot I want to change. It even works in Netscape now that I have discovered you can't have spaces in the filenames.

"I've been playing with Mick Jacques in a semipro band called Big Chief for very many years, in fact I brought him into the band. His forte these days is African music. We have just done a 4 track CD, which should be ready in time for a gig we have at the Brecon Jazz festival in September.

"Also, we have made a new Greenslade CD, called 'Large Afternoon', which Dave & I are well pleased with, due for release late October. Dave Lawson is too involved with writing film music with George Fenton. His replacement is John Young (Asia, Bonnie Tyler, John Wetton, currently Quango with Wetton and Carl Palmer). Andrew McCulloch is likewise tied up, for the last 20 years he has been a Master Mariner, skippering rich Americans, no offence (none taken - RW), to the Azores, etc., and is out of the country about 10 months of the year. On the CD we used the engineer to play electronic drums, live drummer still to be decided. We have got about 12 gigs in November here, and it's pretty sure the CD with be licensed to Koch in Germany, so there will be more in Europe.

"Also, the old CDs are selling very well in Japan, so who knows? In fact, someone came back from Japan with 2 bootleg CDs bought off a market stall in Tokyo, and there was a review a few months ago of a Japanese band in which they were likened to Greenslade - you don't draw that comparison unless the young Japanese buying public knows what Greenslade sounds like."