Bob Skeat is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 bass guitar

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

ist, best known for his work with rock band Wishbone Ash

Wishbone Ash

Wishbone Ash are a British rock band who achieved success in the early and mid-1970s. Their popular records included Wishbone Ash , Argus , There's the Rub , and New England...

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Musical career

Skeat had a musical upbringing, with his father, Bill – a session musician

Session musician

Session musicians are instrumental and vocal performers, musicians, who are available to work with others at live performances or recording sessions. Usually such musicians are not permanent members of a musical ensemble and often do not achieve fame in their own right as soloists or bandleaders...

 – actively encouraging his musical development. In the mid-1990s, Skeat played with Mark Birch

Mark Birch

Mark Birch is an English guitarist, best known for his work with rock band Wishbone Ash.-Musical career:Birch spent much of his musical career gigging in the West Midlands, including playing in bands with Neville MacDonald of Skin. In the late 1990s, bandmate Bob Skeat recommended Birch to Andy...

 in "So!", and shortly afterwards began recording bass tracks for Wishbone Ash's Trance Visionary

Trance Visionary

Trance Visionary is an electronic-based dance studio album by rock band Wishbone Ash recorded during 1996. It features techno and dance collaborations between band leader Andy Powell and electronica guru Mike Bennett...

 album when he was offered the full-time bass position by Andy Powell

Andy Powell

Andy Powell is an English guitarist and songwriter, and best known as a founding member of Wishbone Ash.-Early life and career:...

. Birch joined the band on guitar soon after.