Dad3353

Your acumen does you proud.

I'd suggest fixing a date with them for getting the monies paid over, and let them get on with their gig programme.

I'll look up their touring schedule for France, to give me time to close all the doors and windows.

It's looking good; more when logistics can be consolidated. Steve's a Good Egg..!

PM sent...

A new, slight, complication. The bass is now at Shepperton (near Heathrow, with easy M25/M3 access...), but my cross-channel 'mule' is based in Portsmouth, and won't be able to hop up to fetch it. Is there a BC member, travelling in the next couple of weeks along the M3, willing to get it from my brother at Shepperton, and harbour the bass, in its gig-bag, in the Portsmouth area until my 'mule' can pick it up at a mutually-agreed rendez-vous spot..? Thanks in advance; details by PM.

Here is my contribution to the July 2024 Basschat Composition Challenge, illustrated with a picture chosen by Andy Travis. Little by little, by stealth, Evolution is relentlessly creeping up on us all. Some species are faster at it than others, all the more so using mimicry. Fully orchestral, this time, using Philharmonic 1. Five tracks, layered over a constant cackle from the lesser creatures plus a couple of Bob Reynolds saxes, all in Reaper, of course, with only a NY Glue Cockos compressor and a spot of Ozone 8 on the Master track. Thanks for listening, if you already have; if you're about to, enjoy.

It's bloody heard to listen to anything at all, let alone a 'narrative', when there's a forty-ton steam and diesel pile-driver banging away at 140db each side of the stage.

It's just a shame that they can't turn off the pile-driver banging away over the music. Can't the works be done at another time, when the festival is over..?

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And the winner is... @AndyTravis ..! Here, then, is your Winner's Certificate (download and save as pdf file, then proudly print and frame...) ... BC_Chal_Cert_2024_06.pdf ... which looks like this (but bigger, of course..!)...

Comme Elle Vient (Noir Désir...), The Daubz, La Fête de la Musique, Lassay les Chateaux (Place de la Mairie...), Millenium MPS-850 into Superior Drummer 3 into PA.

Not at all, Woody; no regrets. Here's the original ad ... HB-50...

Thanks, Frank; duly noted. The bass is now in Middlesex, and I'm hoping that a friend who crosses often will be able to do the deed in the next few days/weeks, but I'll keep your offer in mind. Getting it to Ireland may be more 'interesting' than getting it to France, though..! If you're passing through, you're welcome to pop in, either coming or going. In any case, enjoy the break.

I'd put a reserve on The Edgar Broughton Band, if I were you. They were omnipresent 'back then'; one wonders why. Happy, heady daze, but best without them, for my money.

I bought a splendid bass from Matt, to come from Aberdeen to France, via one of my brothers in the UK. Collected from Aberdeen by Parcelforce 26/06, arrived Shepperton 27/06, in perfect condition; can't get much better than that..! Thanks, Matt, for the opportunity, your excellent comms, great packaging, timely expedition and altogether Good Humour. It has been a pleasure; I recommend this fellow as an official Good Egg.

I blame Schubert ...

Rescind away, my lad, rescind away. This one is going nowhere anyway, at any price. ...

Thanks for the kind offer, and no worries, it's not at all a Stingray (although it does have an 'MM'-style p/u...)..! I think the delivery problem has now been solved, with a 'dogs-leg' to one of my brothers down South, and the possible (probable..?) pick-up by a friend who hops between the UK and Europe very regularly. I'll close this topic down once I've confirmation that he's up for it when he's next around. It may even get to me before year's end, at this rate..!

Yes, it's corrugated fibre (no asbestos, but the same principle...). I ordered a motif which should have resembled Roman roof tiling... ... but, when it was delivered, I was at work. When I got home, my mates had already started to cover with it, so it was too late to send it back (it came from Italy...). The 'Desert Storm' camouflage has faded somewhat, and there's a thin layer of lichen which has made it easier on the eyes; I'm pleased with it, overall, especially in winter, as we no longer get snow on our faces when asleep in bed.

That's its present state, after quite a lot of work done (walls rebuilt, roof put on, water, septic tank and electricity now available...) it's never looked batter than now; I've no photos of the state when we bought it; here's some of the chain gang helping out in 2009, just after we'd put a roof on, and I'd bought a camera. Electricity came later...

And in a better state of repair that our cottage, forty years on..!