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I'm sure you've already ascertained it but Lornes last name was Peakman, here's a pic of him from his Facebook, sure he'd be chuffed his fiddles will be loved again

"Shortage of bassists in Aberdeen after they were all press-ganged into working on a galleon....." Apparently the kings shilling was found in the bottom of a few glasses of craft beer, rhtyhm orientared guys work well with oars so it seems.

Even if the information is not yours to share?

Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues - Buddy Holly

Very well said, sounds like you knew him as well as any of us in the BCR community did. He also sold basses to fund giant salt water aquariums his other passion

Sid bought a pedal from me - top Basschatter, quick payment and bevy understanding when I was a little later posting than promised - would happily deal with him again anytime 👍

I'm in the US so I never met Lorne, knew him about 10yrs online, we were Facebook friends, had a few spats with him over the years but overall he was a good guy, troubled soul, his marriage had fallen apart and he lost contact with his kids, he was a drinker but not into hard drugs, meeting this gal was his downfall. She also had a Widow of his up for sale just a few days ago for a low price ($400?) don't know how they came to that price as the IB is more valuable. At any rate I considered him a friend and he was always happy to share whatever BCR knowledge he had, sadly he took his meisterwerk (his serial data base along with his vast picture collection) to the grave with him. Good luck with the bird, if you ever tire of it there's a lot of folks that would love to have it.

Very best wishes for those dates @Linus27

Get thee 2 Bergantino 1x12 cabs and they'll handle the low B all night long.

So, following on from my earlier post with the electric bass board, some goodies arrived this morning from Anderson’s to complete the meagre double bass / EUB board. Everything I need and nothing I don’t 😎

Deliverance - Opeth

Yep, I probably should not have sold it. Ah well. The search for guitar on Google photos threw up more basses than I needed to own.

After two years in a row playing it, I'm very relieved not to be sleeping in a freezing cold, damp tent, zero sleep, desperately trying to keep hold of your your tickets for your gear that youve put in site storage and the either cold or extremely hot showers!! Of course I'll miss the playing and the fun but the rest I do not miss at all!

I have an LFSys Monaco and it's fine with a 5 string Spector.

To wit, two twos.

"The very big probe" 😄 I hope I don't absent-mindedly sing that out loud when I'm doing this week's big shop 🎵

Stand - REM

Roll Over, Lay Down - Status Quo