 The other two members of the band were Dave Richards (died January 2019), who played bass and piano and had been a member of both Sandy Denny's band and Roberts' Everyone band, and Bob Ronga (died November 2012), an American bass player who had earlier been the tour manager for Matthews, Roberts and Thompson on that 1971 tour.The band's name was picked on a whim when they randomly opened a copy of 'The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music' to find Plainsong at pages 450-451.After a month of rehearsals, Plainsong hit the road in February, touring both the UK and Holland.