AndyTravis

This is lovely… https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BMdAHsr3A/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Just gone through our messages… ”Oh wow, that’s it!! How does it sound?” This was the bass - sounds daft as a 40 year old bloke who’s played bass for 25 years…I was nervous sending a recording to him… For Nick.m4a Anyhow, this little ditty entitled “For Nick…” that’ll do.

Thanks for this. been at work all day with a lump in my throat, gutted. Do you know, the last time we met was in August - we’d talked a good few years ago about the ‘E’ basses he’d had a hand in making around 2000/2001… One bleary eyed morning - one came up on eBay (about 15 miles from me) listed as “not working, for parts only”. I didn’t even send him the link - I just went and bought it. I sent him a photo and said “this one of yours?” He was bowled over - it’d been made for a lady he’d eventually end up with who ended up passing away unexpectedly…it’d been sold by her estate and he assumed it’d been lost forever. We hatched a plan, he drove up to collect it from me - and I’d fixed most of the issues with it (I just couldn’t sort an LED blackout, but had sorted the dicky preamp and broken machineheads). We started chatting nonsense and lost about 2 hours, messing with basses… Think we did about 4 bass deals over the years, the first one was in 2009 for a Marcus Miller Jazz at Piccadilly train station… We’d message fairly regularly, particularly if one of us had a new bit of kit. Ah man, very similarly to our MB1😎 - you meet people every so often who have an impact. Nick was one…a force of nature. The world got a little quieter this week - and is going to be all the worse for it.

Awful news to wake up to. RIP mate

https://www.facebook.com/share/15wMifYREw/?mibextid=wwXIfr Jesus. Doesn’t look good this.

Yeah - hope so; the shares and well wishes online show how much love there is for the big guy.

Hopefully. it’s really not like him though to not have phone in hand, just saw Genesis Connected (One of Nick’s Bands) have cancelled their show tomorrow. Anyone who knows Nick knows that missing a show wasn’t in his vocabulary…he did gigs between gigs…just in case.

https://www.cambsnews.co.uk/news/breaking/peterborough-to-whittlesey-road-closed-for-river-hunt-to-find-missing-man/34552/

Worrying update that police divers have attended near where he was last seen and a road has been closed. fingers crossed it’s unrelated to Nick 🤞🏻

Nothing new posted mate - will update if I hear anything

He’s carrying an injury (leg) reading the post.

Yeah - spotted that x

Peterborough is his hometown

Yeah - very unlike Nick, he’s always reaching out. Was looking forward to seeing him again in March. Last saw him in August when he picked up a long lost bass from me. Lovely bloke - known him for 15 years.

One of our very own Nick Smith @doctor_of_the_bass is currently MIA If anybody has had contact with him in the last 24hrs, please contact his Sister Ally ”URGENT PLEASE My brother is missing . PLEASE can anyone contact me if they have spoken with him today or last night” Nick - if you read this, give Ally (or me, or anyone) a call. We love you mate x

We’re quite safe, 2 hours noodling and I’m done…I don’t need an SY-1

I don’t understand the brubaker shape. Why put a control plate on that has no correlation to the body contour… There’s obviously high end skill on show…but it makes me think of the (frankly weird) Epiphones with a jazz plate at a jaunty angle.

“Danger” is my middle name…

I’m still in…for now…I’ve just borrowed this from the guitarist with the idea I might buy it. no cash has changed hands yet. YET.