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Yorkshire Bass Bash - 15th Feb '09 (NOON - 5 PM)


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[quote name='yorks5stringer' post='399931' date='Feb 4 2009, 01:19 PM']Post 145 now updated! Apologies to all....[/quote]

STICKER

Put me on the confirmed list too please

Also I would like to donate a Digitech Bass Squeeze to the raffle prizes... Used but boxed and in excellent condition, hell... I'll even stick a new battery in it for the lucky winner lol

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[quote name='Monz' post='399955' date='Feb 4 2009, 01:37 PM']STICKER

Put me on the confirmed list too please

Also I would like to donate a Digitech Bass Squeeze to the raffle prizes... Used but boxed and in excellent condition, hell... I'll even stick a new battery in it for the lucky winner lol[/quote]
What a STAR!

The raffle prizes (so far) are amazing. Tickets are about to go on sale via a new thread, courtesy of Yorks5stringer's superb organisation skills.

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In addition to the 2 items featured on the other thread, a number of other goodies have been kindly donated.

These will be drawn on the day of the Bass Bash and will only be available to those who attend and have donated in person.


These include:

Unused Tapco DI Box

Pre-loved Digitech Bass Squeeze ( with new battery)

Homemade A/B/Y Box

Some CD's including mine and Phil's Bands.

Superman Bassist T Shirt (Medium, that should rule out most!)

Coldheat Soldering Gun

The Bass Book

45 RPM Collectors item Whammy by Big Boy Bloater

The Entwistle Bass Collection( if only, just the book!)

plus a few other items yet to be confirmed..nudge, nudge!

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[quote name='yorks5stringer' post='399766' date='Feb 4 2009, 10:28 AM'][b]In It to Win It[/b]

These are the 26 names who have asked for stickers:
born2bmild
yorks5stringer
adrenochrome
Dr Dave
jake10floors
timloudon
William James Easton
Kirky
Toasted
Jim Fleeting
niceguyhomer
Argh
7string
Prosebass
Skelf
Funkmaster
Stanrobinson
davidlperry
greeneking
MikeyR
Casapete
[b]Josn3184[/b]
Steve
Rhino
artisan
Monz[/quote]

Double shocking! :P ;)

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[quote name='yorks5stringer' post='399766' date='Feb 4 2009, 10:28 AM'][b]In It to Win It[/b]

These are the updated 27 names who have asked for stickers:
born2bmild
yorks5stringer
adrenochrome
Dr Dave
jake10floors
timloudon
William James Easton
Kirky
Toasted
Jim Fleeting
niceguyhomer
Argh
7string
Prosebass
Skelf
Funkmaster
davidlperry
greeneking
MikeyR
Casapete
Josn3184
Steve
Rhino
artisan
Monz
Al Heeley
AlphaDave

These are names who said they were interested: it would be helpful if you could please confirm if you are still coming!
MikeB
RayFW
EntropicLqd
Ant
watersoftyne
noisedude
Bassmanc
MrBassman[/quote]

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[quote name='William James Easton' post='401919' date='Feb 6 2009, 12:14 PM']is anybody bringing gear they are trying to sell?[/quote]

Definitely around 10 Cold Heat battery operated soldering guns ( just the thing for your toolbox at £6.99) and a feeler on my Hartke LH500 valve preamp head ( assuming I get the LMII back by then...!)

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[quote name='yorks5stringer' post='401940' date='Feb 6 2009, 12:44 PM']Definitely around 10 Cold Heat battery operated soldering guns ( just the thing for your toolbox at £6.99) and a feeler on my Hartke LH500 valve preamp head ( assuming I get the LMII back by then...!)[/quote]
I've got a spare eminence 15" I'll bring, plus the bass featured below, if it hasn't sold by then.

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If anyone is interested in my Aria Pro II CSB 450:

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=39574&st=0&p=403208&#entry403208"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...mp;#entry403208[/url]

Drop me a pm and let me know. With no P&P I might let this go for silly money?

Peter

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[i]Spotted by Yorks5stringer in The Guardian; an insight in to our guest speaker's background...[/i]


[b]Daydream believers[/b]
(The Guardian, Saturday 7 February 2009)
Many of us harboured childhood ambitions - but would you risk leaving a comfortable, well-paid career to follow your heart? Hazel Davis meets those who did and who have never looked back

While his friends might have been kicking footballs about or dreaming of the day when they would bring home the grand prix, a 12-year-old [u]Jim Fleeting [/u]was doodling complex diagrams of guitars and working out how they were made.

Like many of his peers, however, Fleeting's early passions were sidelined when he found himself on the career treadmill. "We didn't do any practical lessons at school really and when the time came for university, I figured a science degree would set me up." Fleeting eventually went into IT because he "figured it was something to do". But he always resisted progressing within the field. "I turned down the offer of management positions three times before I really thought they would sack me if I said no again," he says, laughing.

But Fleeting was earning a good wage, living in London and enjoying his 20s. "The fear of dropping everything was always with me," he says. "None the less, I always felt I was in a grey room, creatively." A successful guitarist in his spare time, Fleeting got to the point where he was spending much of his income on hand-built instruments. "Things came to a head when I put a £1,500 deposit on a guitar I would have had to wait six years to actually own," he says.

Does Fleeting's story sound familiar? A recent report - Dream Jobs - suggests that up to 60% of the UK's workforce "drift" away from their early aspirations. Published by workplace HR communications specialist CHA, the report calls it "career drift": people eschewing their ambitions in favour of more immediate roles.

But back to Fleeting's story. While holidaying in the Basque country - "We were miles from anywhere," he recalls - he started chatting with his friends about their dreams. He returned home, full of resolution, bought a book about guitar making and began an evening course.

"The first time I got a bit of mahogany out, I had no idea what I was doing but I put the plane down and saw this shiny pink surface. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. I thought, 'this is me'," he says.

Fleeting continued his evening course, saved some money, quit his job and finally took the plunge with a course at the prestigious Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery in Arizona.

Fleeting - who today runs Jim Fleeting Guitars in Ripon, North Yorkshire - is now one of the UK's leading luthiers. "Going from someone who had no ambition, I now have a crazy amount," he laughs. "I work as much as I can because I love what I do."

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