TrevorR

Or you could go “Brooklands” as the Bash was only about two miles from that venerable historic racing venue - now home to the local Tesco and M&S superstores!

Never seen that before! Fabulous! When you think of the number of A list bass players Greg Bisonette could have phoned up and said, “Hey, we’re doing this daft lockdown thing…” it says how well respected Lol is that he’s the one on the video,

Got home and having taken loads of photos of Betsy I realised I never asked anyone to take a photo of ME with it! D’oh!

So long as you do a “whole album set” of Animals!!!

Yeah, Darren was the perfect MC for those bits. As you say, top bloke! I couldn’t believe it when Guy finished his chat and said, “I’ll just leave those there if anyone wants to look at them or have a go. Just limit yourself to a couple of minutes coz there’ll probably be a few of you!” He’s such a lovely erm… guy.

What a great, great day!!! Posted a load of pics up at Facebook. You shouldn’t need a Facebook account to view it, I think. https://www.facebook.com/trevorraggatt/posts/pfbid02MUasXEzTEiBG4KPoW6BdTfqYrVUBnZPGxceEQ82UUUVatTJUbYpPGxEyyFvUsPYnl

Hope we’ll see you later.

Oh, and another addition (well, confirmation, really) Barry Moorhouse who set up The Bass Centre will be coming along to show some of his range of Bass Collection basses and to chat about his reminiscences of the old Wapping days (with a few juicy and humorous celebrity anecdotes thrown in for good measure, no doubt!!!).

It’s a wee bit of a trek from Ipswich but the South East Bass Bash is happening on the other side of London this very Sunday, 12th November. Special guests - the inimitable Guy Pratt and session ace Laurence Cottle.

Just spotted that one of our very own, session ace @Kingbassist is the special guest on the latest SBL podcast. He’s talking about life in the business and what it takes to be able to hold your own in the pit or on a session. Sounds like a good listen!

Lol, some years ago my mum and dad got an OAPs’ subscription to their local theatre which gave them free matinee tickets to many shows. One was an adult themed comedy play starring Peter Duncan and “Page 3 stunna”, Linda Lusardi. The play was advertised with the warning “Contains FULL FRONTAL NUDITY!” Dad was not a little disappointed, after seeing the play, that it was PETER who got all his kit off and ran about the stage displaying the family jewels! 🤣🤣🤣

You’d never see that on CBeebies these days!

So did I! Later on in life (much) I spent a rather pleasant evening sharing a beanbag with her while watching a solo bass gig by Steve Lawson. She was quite a lovely person to chat to.

@rumblefish can’t wait to have another tinkle on your namesake bass. I was quite smitten last time you brought it!

There’s more than one way to be an enabler… 🤣

It’s all very relaxed and different folks do different things. No reason not to pop in for a bit - esp, if you can catch a guest talk or two. You’ll enjoy it no matter how long or short you stay for. If you’re coming up from Brighton, maybe you could cadge a lift with Mr Pratt!! 😉🤣

Local lad, his family was from Staines! Just like Ali G!

I know that there’s about 30 big kids listed but we will have access to more than one classroom!! 😜🤣

Looks like we’re racking up a good showing for the Bash. Can’t wait! Just browsing the thread I couldn’t spot @orangefriday… anyone in contact with him? Wonder whether he’ll be able to make it along? His wonderfully crazy builds are always a huge SEBB highlight for me!

Spending some time at Powerhouse, eh? My local rehearsal rooms!

At the risk oh having to dig out my LP collection and hurl Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms at this thread… I thought I’d post an updat as the number of live albums I “appear on” [very large inverted commas there] just ticked up by one. Just got a copy of “This New Noise” by Public Service Broadasting. It’s a recording of the Proms concert they did last year with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. This was a one-off performance so we were chuffed to get tickets. Didn’t spot ourselves in the BBC TV broadcast but it was a fabulous concert. We had earlier in the summer gone to the Earth Prom and we appeared in the interval interviews section so we’d already had our 15 minutes of fame! Anyway, the album is as good as remember it and well worth a look if you like their indie, documentary, archive clips style!

…and I heartily “third” it!

Frank, what you choose to do in the privacy of your own home is up to you, but please don’t bring it to the Bash… again! 🍹🛼

…and the “see if anyone wants to buy this thing I don’t need any more” table…

Someone asked me about whether coming to the Bass Bash means they’ll get stung by the ULEZ charge. I live locally to the High School and reassured them that we are well outside the current ULEZ zone and the proposed expansion. So no worries there!