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Young gifted and skint. NMA

This makes me so sad. May you RIP @SamIAm

Grazed Knees - Snow Patrol

So sad. RIP Sam.

Of course you are right, I was really just thinking of amplifier prices and did not make that clear. In the UK in the early 1970's a month's average wages wouldn't pay for a 100W bass amp. Currently an average UK week's wage would buy a 500W amp and leave you some change.

Legs Stick Together - Roxy Music

Tiger feet - Mud

Likes an Acoustic Bass. I've got a Harley Benton HBO 850 wearing Adagio Flats... Son has a Cheapy G4M Fretless wearing those Monster Thick Rotosound Tapes.

Can't imagine them with a flamboyant, enthusiastic drummer. Wouldn't suit them at all.

Very sad news. Sam will be missed by the BC community. RIP.

that looks nice!

I only build around 5 or 6 hrs a week at the luthier school, i started with this bass about a year ago. I think about 40 weeks or so, so that makes around 200-240 hrs. I still have to learn a lot so I’m not the fastest builder… 😉

Seems reasonable given Moon was known for his underplaying 👍

Brilliant

He doesn't seem too devasted He put this up on his social wotsits a few days before the official announcement

@lurksalot So I finally got an idea, thanks to my newly acquired EHX Pico Deep Freeze sample sustainer pedal, and recorded 2 takes of a drony folky improvised bass solo/solo bass piece that I named "A Dorian Ody-C#", however I think take 2 was considerably better than take 1, which turned out sounding a bit rushed, and additionally take 2 also had a slight jazzy vibe that take 1 lacks, only issue, in the nature of improvisation, take 1 is 4 minutes and 32 seconds, which does fits within the time limit set for this competition, whereas take 2 runs 6 minutes and 1 second. So the question is, could you possibly, in the name of artistic freedom, make an exception and allow my entrance for this month to exceed that set time limit with 1 minute and 1 second? I promise this will not become a bad habit, and I'd really rather not have to record another, third, take, as I know it will ruin the immediate, spontaneous and authentic vibe of this being a free improvisation.

If you get new signal chain stuff, you’re out. One exception - genuine surprise gift like a birthday or somesuch

Too awful 😢 seemed like a really lovely person and very community spirited

Fair enough! Mystery solved! Well, it looks the dogs! 👌

I imagine the truth is that he started trying to have a say in things, been the downfall of many a non-original member, no matter how talented or long-standing