Ronald 'Ron' Tree (born 8 April 1963 in

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, England) is an

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and

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, best known as frontman and bassist for the English

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band

Hawkwind Hawkwind are an English rock band known as one of the earliest space rock groups. Since their formation in November 1969, Hawkwind have gone through many incarnations and have incorporated many different styles into their music, including ha ...

from 1995 to 2002. He also played both these roles in the reunited Steve Took's Horns in 2002, taking the place of

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. He later became the vocalist/songwriter in the

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, alongside Jerry Richards, Harvey Bainbridge, Dave Pearce and Tom Ashurst.

History

Prior to joining Hawkwind, Tree played with 2000DS, Plato's Jacuzzi, Captain Jesus and the Sunray Dream (who released two limited-edition "private press" LPs), and his own band, Bastard. He contributed vocals and bass to Bajina in 2000, with Dino Ferari (

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) and Judge Trev Thoms (lead guitar), and, also with Ferari and Judge Trev, recorded two new tracks for the Steve Took's Horns album ''Blow It!!!,'' the main body of which was recorded in 1977 at

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, by Took with Trev and Ferari; that album was released 10 August 2004. After these musical excursions he contributed vocals and bass for Trev (lead guitar & vocals), Jim Hawkman (

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), and John Morgan (

) with Mother Of All Bands (M.O.A.B.). Since then, amongst other various musical projects, he has played with Leeds-based band The Sewer Suckers, who supported bands such as My Older Ego in his home town.

have annually released an album, namely; ''We Are One'' (2012), ''Dream'' (2013), ''Censored'' (2014), ''Re:volution'' (2015), ''Fusion'' (2016) and ''Six'' (2017); although Tree did not appear on the latter.

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* 1963 births Living people musicians from Leeds English rock bass guitarists Male bass guitarists English male singers Hawkwind members {{England-musician-stub