Frank Blank

I remember listening to this as a child and for years just thinking of it as a children’s song but as I got older I realised what a brilliant commentary on life it is, it just paints a picture of a simple scene and yet you can hear the machinations of a sinister system ticking behind. I remember having a discussion with a member of Crass about this song, how it was a benchmark and how Seeger manages, in such an almost nursery rhyme way, to covey an actually very bleak view of late 50s early 60s America. Brilliant and absolutely still relevant.

The actual nature of the human condition right there.

Have to = could Need to = might

Which is why I’m going to hell in a handcart.

Do what son?

Hello!

Hey, not at all, I very much think this thread needs a thoughtful voice of reason in juxtaposition to our reactions. It’s easy to tip beer over everyone’s head and burn your bridges but harder to be the more reasonable person. However, I am, by all accounts, unreasonable so I must express that in my responses.

Musicians..? With an ego problem..? Unheard of 😀

All your base are belong to us.

Hello!

Same way a dog uses a lamp post.

I far prefer yours.

Yes, yes you’re right... *throws it under oncoming milk float*

Dude, seriously, let me turn up in your place and do the gig for you, oh my lord.

Oh lord, lord above. What I’d give to be in your position, Sir, go full mayhem, make the accounts look like scenes from Apocalypse Now!

děkuji, na kolečkových bruslích.

Fixed.

...or do the gig and just play absolute nonsense on the bass with your foot up on the monitor and introduce every song as a tribute to the former leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Klement Gottwald.

It’s an amazing bass.

Yup, 7th reply.

On a more serious note I can understand your quandary completely. No matter how beautiful it is or the amount of work done to repair it your personal experience with this particular bass has nonetheless been jaded. It’s really very little to do with the physical item itself, It’s much more psychological than that. I actually think you need to ignore all of us and see if you can reconnect with it, if you can then great, but if you can’t I don’t think you shouldn’t worry. Our relationships with things as personal as musical instruments is finely, finely balanced. Good luck Sir.