Frank Blank

Yes it’s taking me an age to get through but that’s because each player leads off down a warren of discovery.

I think postponing is the right thing, as @Andyjr1515 rightly points out, it’s an inevitability. Just hold another one as soon as you can once we have some kind of all clear, we’ll all be right there, had a gas last time.

Can I just ask Sir, what bass is that in the pic? Have just begun thinking about starting on upright, that looks (with its fingerboard dots) a good place to start.

@scrumpymike don’t be out of pocket with the cancelling of the hall, let us know if that’s even a possibility and I’m sure I can speak for others by saying we can chip in and cover it.

Agreed, a very lovely thing to look forward to.

Absolutely. I hope it’s all sorted, somehow, by then but I can’t imagine it.

As a diabetic I’m in one of the risk groups with this virus so until things improve markedly I’m not going to this or to the SW Bash either, seems the common sense thing to do.

Fixed. Updated list with the gap (and me) removed. 1. @jebroad Dingwall, Squire silver jazz, schecter fiver, ashdown 8x10, whatever heads I can dig out 2. @Len_derby . Swift Lite bass. A couple of raffle prizes 3. @Andyjr1515 No idea what I'll be bringing bass-wise, but I'll definitely be bringing me (and maybe @Len_derby and maybe @SpondonBassed?) 4. @Teebs Hinnocent 5. @Stub Mandrel's (Naughty Jama Corner) - Fender Flea bass, Fender performer plus surprise guest bass(es), Trace Elliot GP11 Mk. 11 1110 Combo, Joyo XVI - 6. @Richard R's (cheap bit on the side as all the corners are taken) - Brawley Artemis KB14 with steel strings,, EBS Session 60, possibly a bitsa to get some advice on, scales to weigh basses with, cake, something for the raffle,

Doveridge Village Hall, Sand Lane, Doveridge, Ashbourne DE6 5JQ

Christopher Wesley White ... and some bloke on trumpet.

Yessir, that's in the bag. Big Oscar Peterson fan here.

Lately I have been noticing similarities between the playing of Chris Squire and Les Claypool, however, that may just be the drugs. Chris Squire was a big influence on me as a a young teen, not that I played bass then but I loved that sound. I'm not impressed by technical playing when it appears simply to be for the sake of technical playing but Squire was a notable exception, it was always a great groove.

I'm type 2 as well but as such our condition is (hopefully) under control with drugs so our risk of contracting it is similar to those without but there are possible complications if we do contract it. Personally I'm just not taking any risks whatsoever.

Excuses? Common sense I think would be a more apt description. Much as I love the SWBB I think that very common sense will be prevailing in my case.

As a diabetic I’m firmly in the ‘at risk’ category and going nowhere until we are over the ‘peak’.

There are people more at risk than others but those not at risk potentially become ‘super spreaders’ as in they don’t feel I’ll still all or only have very mild symptoms so carry on behaving as normal thus spreading the virus about.

I three at the moment, two ACGs and a Rob Allen but considering selling both ACGs to fund a decent Fender.

No worries!

Yes they work. My 11 year old ACG had Schallers installed and they work perfectly well with the latest version.

Welcome Sir.

Yes, autopsy videos were a big part of SPKs thing too, yeech.

However, everyone else will be in self-isolation.

1. After a dramatic entrance Jim Kerr fell off the front of the stage at the Lyceum and had to be helped back onstage by audience members. 2. An enormous rockabilly fellow getting on stage, again at The Lyceum, with The Cult and doing the classic chicken dance. Several roadies appeared to get him off the stage, all of whom he dispatched with flailing punches. He eventually rejoined the crown but only after drop kicking Jamie Stewart into the wings. 3. SPK supporting The Birthday Party at the Electric Ballroom. SPK had animal skulls on sticks as stage props during their set which they threw in to the audience when they finished. I picked one up, a sheep skull I think, my finger found something squelchy in the the eye socket, a rotten eye. The smell was epic. This was the most violent gig I’ve ever been too, a friend of mine had his ear spit in two during the fray, he was (and still is) vey proud of it. 4. During a Killing Joke souncheck Raven was informed that guest was trying to get in. I went to see who it was and looking in through the window was Billy Duffy. “It’s Billy Duffy” I reported back, “Tell him to fück off” came the reply. I went back, opened the window and said, in my most gentlemanly tone “I’m afraid Paul’s tied up mid-soundcheck at the moment but he did specifically request that you fück off”, which, seemingly, he did. During the actual gig Duffy returned but Raven clocked him and between songs shouted “Oi Duffy, I thought I told you to fück off?”, which, this time, he promptly did. 5. During a Crystal Method show in Houston (I was working for the support band) ZZ Top turned up. Billy Gibbons had ZZ Top headed post-it-notes with his autograph which he stuck to anyone who asked. 6. Working with a band at the Phoenix Festival in 1996, the tour manager ran up to me and said “There’s some nutter sitting on the DJs podium and he’s rocking it so much ******* can’t scratch” I ran over to eject the fellow but as I approached I realised it was Goldie, ”S’alright, I’m fücking off” he grinned. 7. Returning from a Banshees gig in the early eighties, about thirty of us boarded a train at Liverpool Street. Once we’d all found seats someone shouted out, “It’s Gripper” and indeed, sitting quietly on his own was Mark Savage who played Gripper Stebson in Grange Hill. Once he realised we weren’t going to throw him out the window he was a good laugh. 8. Hearing a rousing chorus of Stand & Deliver being sung by a crowd of football supporters alighting from a train at Euston. Only on closer inspection did I see a highly embarrassed Adam Ant walking along the platform with his wheelie suitcase as the crowd sang behind him, he looked like he wanted a hole in the ground to swallow him up.

What a bloody excellent site this is!