Aberdeen bass players social! 13th July, venue TBD

[neepheid]

EDIT: Date decided - 13th July 2025.  Venue/time TBC.

 

It was a light hearted joke

 

 

Then I started thinking - why the hell not?  I know many of us are very busy most weekends, and through the week evenings are littered with rehearsals and other sorts of stuff.  But if we could arrange a time when a bunch of us could get togther (a Sunday afternoon perhaps?) - nothing as grand as a bass bash - just a meetup somewhere in the pub to talk shite about basses or bands or anything else you fancy - would any of you Aberdeen city and shire bassists be interested?

 

No offence taken if it comes to hee haw, but if you don't ask, you don't get...

Edited 7 hours ago by neepheid

[chris_b]

Hi Aberdeen bass players. . . . did any of you play with Dave Innes?

 

I gigged with him a lot down here in London. One of the best drummers I played with, he is sadly missed.

[brule_lentement]

If I'm around, why not? Keep me in the loop please 👍

[Geek99]

3 hours ago, neepheid said:

It was a light hearted joke

 

 

Then I started thinking - why the hell not?  I know many of us are very busy most weekends, and through the week evenings are littered with rehearsals and other sorts of stuff.  But if we could arrange a time when a bunch of us could get togther (a Sunday afternoon perhaps?) - nothing as grand as a bass bash - just a meetup somewhere in the pub to talk shite about basses or bands or anything else you fancy - would any of you Aberdeen city and shire bassists be interested?

 

No offence taken if it comes to hee haw, but if you don't ask, you don't get...

Even from 500 miles away (some kind of reference there possibly) that sounds like a totally amazing idea - well done @neepheid my Scottish brother from another (likely Scottish) mother 

 

 

@brule_lentement you have gone full-scale red carpet here.
 

advice: Just don’t write a scathing memoir afterwards and have it published in hardback like certain princes of the realm .. 👍

Edited Sunday at 21:54 by Geek99

[Stub Mandrel]

My partner's daughter and her Family live near Aberdeen, so on the slender off-chance we visit at the same time I'm registering my interest! 

[Acebassmusic]

6 hours ago, neepheid said:

Would any of you Aberdeen city and shire bassists be interested?

 

Yes that might just work 👍 I missed the original post so I'll tag a couple of other "locals" who might be interested @Yan_Huriey@jig@ToneFree@woodyratm

 

5 hours ago, chris_b said:

Hi Aberdeen bass players. . . . did any of you play with Dave Innes?

 

I gigged with him a lot down here in London. One of the best drummers I played with, he is sadly missed.

 

Yes I did a couple of charity gigs and a number of jam nights with him. Lovely guy and very talented. When he came back to Aberdeen he played in the Gerry Jablonski Band with our very own @jig

[woodyratm]

I’d be down for this. 

[Yan_Huriey]

In principle yes, I work shifts mind, but it's a nice idea.

[neepheid]

I'm keen to make this happen, so let's get some ideas bouncing around.  Main issue would be "when".

 

I'm thinking weekends are best. For me, I have a gap in my gigging schedule next month with folk away on holiday and whatnot, so I have the following weekends free:

 

12th/13th July
19th/20th July

27th July

2nd/3rd August

 

Any of those work for folk?

[Acebassmusic]

So far all ok for me except 12th July & 2nd Aug.

 

FYI the 19/20th July is when the Tall Ships are in Aberdeen.

[Geek99]

If I could justify it to the management …

[neepheid]

9 minutes ago, Acebassmusic said:

So far all ok for me except 12th July & 2nd Aug.

 

FYI the 19/20th July is when the Tall Ships are in Aberdeen.

 

Oh, good shout, probably best avoid that weekend then - place will be hoaching with tourists probably in a sort of mini version of how Edinburgh gets with the Fringe.

[Huge Hands]

12 minutes ago, Acebassmusic said:

FYI the 19/20th July is when the Tall Ships are in Aberdeen.

I can see the headline now:

"Shortage of bassists in Aberdeen after they were all press-ganged into working on a galleon....."

[Yan_Huriey]

"Shortage of bassists in Aberdeen after they were all press-ganged into working on a galleon....."

 

Apparently the kings shilling was found in the bottom of a few glasses of craft beer, rhtyhm orientared guys work well with oars so it seems.

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 20:49 by Yan_Huriey

[woodyratm]

10 hours ago, neepheid said:

I'm keen to make this happen, so let's get some ideas bouncing around.  Main issue would be "when".

 

I'm thinking weekends are best. For me, I have a gap in my gigging schedule next month with folk away on holiday and whatnot, so I have the following weekends free:

 

12th/13th July
19th/20th July

27th July

2nd/3rd August

 

Any of those work for folk?

I’m good for everything except 19th - BrewDog piss up. Sorry AGM. 

[brule_lentement]

12/13 July or 2/3 August are fine for me!

[neepheid]

Thank you for the input on dates, with that info I have narrowed it down to two:

 

13th July

3rd August

 

I'll leave that for people to chew over (and see if anyone else chimes in) then it'll be onto deciding on a venue.  Which is a posh word for... pub.  So gutted that CASC shut, it would have been a stick on for such a meetup

 

[ToneFree]

I can make Sunday 13th but will be away for 3rd of August. No worries if that doesn’t suit the consensus, will catch up at the next one.

[neepheid]

57 minutes ago, ToneFree said:

I can make Sunday 13th but will be away for 3rd of August. No worries if that doesn’t suit the consensus, will catch up at the next one.

 

Not at all, we've been building towards something of a consensus, so we'll make it Sunday 13th and that'll nail it down.

 

So, where do you want to meet, and at what time?  I'll throw in the suggestion of a Brewdog (Union Square or Castlegate?), 2pm.  But feel free to chime in with other ideas/preferences.

[woodyratm]

3 hours ago, neepheid said:

 

Not at all, we've been building towards something of a consensus, so we'll make it Sunday 13th and that'll nail it down.

 

So, where do you want to meet, and at what time?  I'll throw in the suggestion of a Brewdog (Union Square or Castlegate?), 2pm.  But feel free to chime in with other ideas/preferences.

BrewDogs a shout. Can at least book an area maybe? I can’t imagine it being that loud on a Sunday. 
 

Be awesome to meet folk! 

[Acebassmusic]

Thanks for doing the legwork for this Matt @neepheid 👍

 

Random thought....this isn't a "Bass Bash" but a chance to meet up and talk so shouldn't it be called a "BassChatChat"?🤔🤣🤣