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Outlaw, Rebel Rouser and Chas & Dave founder Chas Hodges has died from organ failure having recently received treatment for oesophageal cancer.

R.I.P. Chas

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45613563

Sad news. He was a very fluent and talented performer.He was able to make what he was doing appear effortless and simple which is the mark of true talent.

Desperately sad news, a great guy and very talented performer, RIP Chas.

Brilliant pianist... far, far better than most people would realise.

Chas played bass on John Leyton’s 1961 hit Johnny Remember Me.

He also acquired Jet’s old sand-filled bass cabinet. It ended up in his garden as a rabbit hunch.

Great entertainer and good musician.

Iain Purdon wrote:Chas played bass on John Leyton’s 1961 hit Johnny Remember Me.

He also acquired Jet’s old sand-filled bass cabinet. It ended up in his garden as a rabbit hunch.

Great entertainer and good musician.

He was just making an educated guess about those Oryctolagi Cuniculi, was he?

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RIP, Chas Hodges. I never saw him play live, though I remember Dave Peacock very well from the London country music scene of the early 1970s.

RIP - what a great musician.

Bass player with Heads, Hands and Feet (featuring the wonderful Albert Lee on guitar). Chas appears on bass on a lot of the double album The London Sessions by Jerry Lee Lewis, which features loads of famous British guitarists and other musicians (Klaus Voorman on bass on a couple of tracks) - but this album taught me a lot about rock and roll and country bass playing courtesy of Chas on this album.

Quote From Chas Hodges book

Chas Hodges book Chas and Dave All About Us
2008

Billy Kuy told me that the bass player with Dave Sampson And the Hunters
Johnny Rogers,had a bass amp for sale.
He’d bought it from Jet Harris The Shadows bass player.
Id seen cliff and the shadows when jet was using the amp
I thought it was fantastic. Johnny Rogers wanted £20 for the lot.
I was round there like a shot and got it.
Now this bass amp was built like a little house and was about as heavy as one
It was about four feet high,three foot wide and three feet deep.
A solid wooden box(Two inch thick wood) within in a box and the cavity was filled with sand.you can imagine the weight.It was made by Wallace in Soho street.
I think it was the first british bass amp ever made. Bobby Neate who had promised to lug it about, looked a bit dismayed when he found out what he’d agreed to.
But he didn’t back out and it came with us on the road.
It had a sound and a half ! Some years later I gave that cabinet to some geezer I’d just met named Dave Peacock.
He sawed a F---in great hole in it,all the sand fell out and it ended up in his back garden
It’s probably still there now!