How far have you travelled to pick up a Bass?

[Hellzero]

13 minutes ago, binky_bass said:

True, I forgot about that awful journey! I think I purged it from my memory... 😆

My shrink says I have to write all these awful memories to be at peace with myself and then burn them, but I still haven't clearly understood if I have to burn you... 🤔 🤪

[binky_bass]

Just now, Hellzero said:

My shrink says I have to write all these awful memories to be at peace with myself and then burn them, but I still haven't clearly understood if I have to burn you... 🤔 🤪

Psychologically, you already have.

[cocco]

420 miles from South Wales to Manchester and back for an ampeg 8x10 back in the day, with a terrible hangover.

Edited Friday at 15:22 by cocco

[stewblack]

Preston. 204 miles.

[tauzero]

5 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

The baass was half way round from me 

 

So you could go one way round out, the other way back, and make it a genuine round trip.

[tauzero]

Not as far as some. 280 miles or so round trip to pick up an Ibanez EHB1265MS from Surrey. And a 380 mile or so round trip to pick up a Trace Elliott 4x10 combo. That didn't stay long after my first gig with it was up two flights of stairs.

[chriswareham]

London to Cornwall for a Hondo II Rickenbacker copy. Went by train, met the seller in the railway station car park and straight back on the next train to London.

 

Then there was the sheer insanity of going by train to collect an absolutely huge and heavy organ from North West Wales. It was in a tiny town on a branch line, so involved numerous changes and a trolley jack to shift the beast, a very rare Logan T249.

[Len_derby]

Not a bass, but the longest journey I’ve taken is to collect a bass speaker cabinet that a member* generously donated for a teenager jam-night I was hosting.

It was a twisty, spectacular drive into the beautiful heart of Wales.

I also have a cautionary tale about the trip. Having looked up the specification of the cab I carefully measured the inside of my hatchback Hyundai. It was going to fit, just. However, I didn’t check whether any casters had been fitted to the bottom of the cab. They had……🤭.

Got it home Ok.

 

*I can’t remember the user name of the kind member. He lives, or lived, inland of Aberystwyth. It was a few years ago and it’s no longer possible to see the messages we exchanged. 

Edited 18 hours ago by Len_derby
Wrong user name!

[Hellzero]

This reminds of a quite similar situation: I went to buy (only 250 kilometres round trip, but twice, read below for the funny part) an Ashdown CTM-300 with its dedicated made in U.K. 8x10 cab, and came back with an Ashdown CTM-100 with an Ashdown 1200 Watts made in U.K. 4x10 cab as I own a stupid Peugeot 508 with a trunk and not a hatchback, so I had to put the cab on the back seat as it couldn't get in the immense trunk and the head in the said trunk.

 

That said, eventually, the 100 Watts head coupled to that 4x10 cab was more suited to my taste, so a win-win situation.

 

Now, the funny part: I had to go back there the next day has I had forgotten my jacket with my wallet at the seller's place and only noticed it when back home, you know the "new toy syndrome". 🤦🏻🤪🫨

 

My wife who accompanied me both times was laughing like a child and I had to pay the restaurant on the second day. 😉

[binky_bass]

10 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

This reminds of a quite similar situation: I went to buy (only 250 kilometres round trip, but twice, read below for the funny part) an Ashdown CTM-300 with its dedicated made in U.K. 8x10 cab, and came back with an Ashdown CTM-100 with an Ashdown 1200 Watts made in U.K. 4x10 cab as I own a stupid Peugeot 508 with a trunk and not a hatchback, so I had to put the cab on the back seat as it couldn't get in the immense trunk and the head in the said trunk.

 

That said, eventually, the 100 Watts head coupled to that 4x10 cab was more suited to my taste, so a win-win situation.

 

Now, the funny part: I had to go back there the next day has I had forgotten my jacket with my wallet at the seller's place and only noticed it when back home, you know the "new toy syndrome". 🤦🏻🤪🫨

 

My wife who accompanied me both times was laughing like a child and I had to pay the restaurant on the second day. 😉

I might 'forget' the occasional comma in a sentence, at least I've not forgotten my wallet and jacket and had to do a second 200 mile journey!