silverfoxnik

Very, very sad to hear this news.. 😞 Such a talented musician with one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard in my life. Her performances and versions of 'Killing Me Softly' and 'First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' will never be equalled or bettered IMHO. RIP.

Just bought some DR Black Beauties off Mike, aka @alyctes. Great strings, very fair price, extremely well packed, excellent comms and a great Basschatter to deal with. Highly, highly recommend - and even more so after reading the fab post above! Mike exemplifies everything that is good about Basschat... 👍👍 Thanks Mike and here's to the next time... 🙏😊

Yep - sad news... Gone too soon. 😞 Always liked The Jam ; much more than most of Weller's solo output. Buckler was a very good drummer and he formed a great bass/drums unit with Bruce Foxton, and a very powerful musical trio with Weller ... Personally, I can't agree with the sentiment that they carried Weller's songs, many of which are absolute classics and follow down that line of great British songwriters from Ray Davies, to Pete Townshend, right through to Blur etc, etc. The main thing for me is that, together, they were just a great young band that was definitely more than the sum of the parts.. I met him once in the late 80s.. He owned a studio in the Liverpool Road / Angel area of London IIRC, and he showed me and my band mates around the place as we were potentially going to use it. Seemed like a fairly decent bloke too.. RIP.

Just bought some Sadowsky strings from @IanA in what was a very straightforward and pleasant transaction... As such, I'm more than happy to highly recommended Ian to one and all here on Basschat! Thanks again Ian, and here's to the next one.. 😁 Cheers Nik

Hi Chris, Happy to help with this if you want to take the idea further... 👍

That's really good @AndyTravis.. 👍

Just seen this news in my Google feed, which led me here. Oh my, what a shock! Such sad, sad news... 😞 I last saw Nick in October when he came to my house to buy an amp.. He was here for about an hour and in great form as usual - full of bass/ music related stories and full of laughter! And, apart from him trying to persuade me to sell him my Jazz bass, I remember we talked about Nick starting up a podcast (which would have been amazing I think) . The tribute message by his sister is really moving, as has already been said, and so are everyone's stories about Nick in this thread. And whilst it's nothing like as tragic as losing a family member of course, I think the bass playing community has not only lost a genuinely lovely human being, fellow Basschater and seriously talented musician, but we've also lost someone with such a breadth and depth of knowledge about the family tree of UK bass players (if there is such a thing) and the development of the bass guitar in this country.. Such a loss. Sending my sincerest condolences to his family and friends. RIP Nick.