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Jerry Hutchinson started playing bass guitar sometime after the middle of the 20th century. During his notable playing career, Jerry’s long journey over the hill and down to the lake of  placid contentment has taken him as far a-field as the Wild West, Cuba, the North Pole and the Far East (Pinner, Plymouth, Willesden and Penge, respectively), deservedly winning through his efforts on this arduous and oft times risky downward pilgrimage, the sincere respect of many fine fellow-musicians. Far from just sitting back, basking in the warm glow of admiration emanating from his peers, and bathing too long and luxuriously in the pure clear waters of past accomplishment (from which bathing he could more than reasonably claim to be one of the country’s most comprehensively washed up musicians), he remains committed to his motto of ‘Onward and downward!’ This grim determination to continue his ‘even my live music is good music’ crusade saw him in 1997 become one of the founder members of Le Band. Over the ensuing years, the other members of Le Band have made titanic efforts to sway Jerry onto a more melodically consistent path, but abiding by the true ethos of most serious bass players, he has managed to stick to his time honored ‘voyage of descent’ principles. Despite this commendable doggedness, during his time with Le Band Jerry’s sheer musicianship has somehow blossomed, culminating in one stupendous evening when he played almost 5 numbers on the trot without producing a single bum note! Unfortunately there is no hard evidence of this historic achievement, so it is just possible that the story has a mythical quality and therefore cannot be seriously considered for entry into The Guinness Book Of Records.   Jerry Hutchinson was talking to Mike Oxlong of the MNE*. *MNE is the trademark of Music News & Echo (Swilly) Ltd.    (As you can see, Jerry's view on a write up is "why use one word when you can use fifty". It's just a shame that he doesn't transfer this method to his playing where it is definitely a case of "why play fifty notes when you can get away with just one". It's ok Jerry I don't think anyone noticed:- MJAB )