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Born to lose. UFO

Yep, was just part of the deal of being a bassist, Trace, Peavey, Orange etc all extremely heavy but that’s what was available.

I did impose a 10kg per item limit on all my gear, PA included. I have breached that though, got a GR Bass AT212 which weighs a back-breaking 11.5kg, or about the same as a Trace Elliott handle.

You really know how to make friends here, don't you..!

You just need the URL of the JPG (the bit inside the [img][/img] tags:

Just sitting at a car charger outside Cardiff (before my onward journey back to Surrey…) following a lovely little Katy Hurt gig at Acapella Studios. What a lovely venue! First gig of the tour where we’ve had Cris join us on lap steel, guitar and mandolin, and Basschat royalty @Rich in attendance. We had a blast (common theme on this run of shows I’m pleased to say!) and made a lot of new friends I think. I still can’t sing in tune for more than about 3 notes. Shoes were black leather Chelsea boots today, v comfy but a bit slippy on the stage carpet 😀

The starting bid was lower than the estimate (applies to most if not all GH auction items) - I did see one auction for a very expensive guitar where the auctioneer started at £18k but had to drop that as there were no takers, eventually went for £17k+. They will courier - £55 + VAT for a bass. My time is my own, my diesel I have to pay for, so I saved a few quid by doing that and saved our guitarist £50 + VAT by picking up his Ibanez at the same time.

Didn’t some of them suffer from warped necks at some point? Maybe it’s one of those?

Certainly; shades of 'What goes on in Fight Club stays in Fight Club'.

Good idea. I'm sure there are other members that have had an experience with an invisible bear. Daryl

You might prefer to keep a little mystique, no..?

I don’t like his music but there’s no denying the influence he has had on other artists. I don’t you are correct in your assertion. His creative years were done before I was born so I’m probably going to feel less “shocked” than if, say, John Taylor, died but it doesn’t mean that I think BW irrelevant

@seashell - this is all your fault, of course. 😂

I initially didn't post because it kind of feels like I've lost a lost family member in a way. It's beyond usual words. Just been paying my own private respects, celebrating his work and a lifetime of my personal memories attached to it.

My run of bad luck with basses continues. My recently acquired Sandberg California wasn't going to play ball. It was fine a week or so ago when I gave it a good testing at home upon arrival, very happy indeed. Put it back in its gig bag until tonights practice. I was really looking forward to properly using this bass with the band and planing to use it at Saturdays gig but it was not to be. The input socket was not going to accept any lead I tried so something is obviously broken and a new socket is probably needed. So I had to drive back home and get a replacement bass, my old Gibson Ripper. Rehearsal going well until I had sudden overwhelming pain in my knackered right foot which left me hopping about and swearing like a drunken trooper! I can only imagine how funny this is going to look should these pain spasms return whilst gigging this coming Saturday!

Went to watch band resolution 88 at jazz refreshed, 91 livingroom brick lane. They play jazz fusion. Really really solid group. Bass player was right in the pocket. If you ever get a chance I would give them a listen or go watch. Really enjoyed them.

Yeah, you wouldn't want anything too OTT on a sparkly purple T'bird, would you?! 😃

I know Larry Hartke. He's from my part of New Jersey. I remember going out to diner with him once with one of my old Jersey buddies. Daryl