Clarky Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 More seriously I'd be on for attending but I'm not really up for organising as I have too much on my plate at work etc and have overloaded on stress recently (won't go into details) I do foresee a geographic issue with the likes of Mr_Bassman up in Harrogate, TheRev in Bristol, bassace in Oxfordshire (IIRC), you, I and Jake in various parts of the South East, not to mention the various other BassChat DBers scattered across the country. Probably needs to be somewhere north of London but not too far north to rule out the SE brigade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted March 1, 2012 Author Share Posted March 1, 2012 Canterbury it is then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted March 1, 2012 Author Share Posted March 1, 2012 Seriously, I'm more than happy to help with arranging this, not sure that I can tale the lead as i have something of a year ahead of me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted March 1, 2012 Author Share Posted March 1, 2012 And we'll need a venue that ain't too precious about it's floor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatback Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 [quote name='Mr Bassman' timestamp='1330607910' post='1560242'] An upright bass bash is something I've been thinking about for us northerners, there's very little stock anywhere up here. [/quote] Gotta be better than here. Maybe half a dozen players in a hundred miles around and no db shops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah thomas Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Somewhere in the Midlands? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Bassman Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 How about a Northern upright bash on Saturday 7th April Bassace has a gig that night in Boston Spa, it's just off the A1 near Wetherby. I could have a word with the venue or find another maybe in Harrogate Sorry to hijack Chris' thread, I'll start a new topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted March 1, 2012 Author Share Posted March 1, 2012 [quote name='fatback' timestamp='1330617828' post='1560491'] Gotta be better than here. Maybe half a dozen players in a hundred miles around and no db shops. [/quote] Sounds familiar.... FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Aye, very passable, that, very passable bit of risotto. SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: Nothing like a good glass of Château de Chasselas, eh, Josiah? THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: You're right there, Obadiah. FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Château de Chasselas, eh? FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea. SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: A cup o' cold tea. FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Without milk or sugar. THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Or tea. FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: In a cracked cup, an' all. FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper. SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth. THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor. FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Because we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son". FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Aye, 'e was right. FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Aye, 'e was. FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof. SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling. THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor! FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh. FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us. SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake. THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road. FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Cardboard box? THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Aye. FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt. SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky! THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife. FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah. FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you. ALL: They won't! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted March 1, 2012 Author Share Posted March 1, 2012 [quote name='Mr Bassman' timestamp='1330620708' post='1560558'] How about a Northern upright bash on Saturday 7th April Bassace has a gig that night in Boston Spa, it's just off the A1 near Wetherby. I could have a word with the venue or find another maybe in Harrogate Sorry to hijack Chris' thread, I'll start a new topic. [/quote] Stop, thief! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted March 1, 2012 Author Share Posted March 1, 2012 Right, I'm going to host a southern bash on the same day and we'll see who does it better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommyjamesallen Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Chris, try Malcolm Healey, When I was looking for my Bass I went everywhere and I can safely say that Malcolm is the man to talk to. His DBs are a bit over your budget, but not all of them, when I was there he had a Bass for £700 that sounded great. It would be wrong to buy a Bass without at least giving him a call. Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassace Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 [quote name='Mr Bassman' timestamp='1330620708' post='1560558'] How about a Northern upright bash on Saturday 7th April Bassace has a gig that night in Boston Spa, it's just off the A1 near Wetherby. I could have a word with the venue or find another maybe in Harrogate Sorry to hijack Chris' thread, I'll start a new topic. [/quote] I couldn't get to the bash because I'm with the band transport and won't be up there until just before gig time. There was a bash at Northampton some time ago in a convenient hotel with a large car park. Bit more central. Any interest in that? At least it's closer to Canterbury. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted March 1, 2012 Author Share Posted March 1, 2012 [quote name='bassace' timestamp='1330623230' post='1560645'] I couldn't get to the bash because I'm with the band transport and won't be up there until just before gig time. There was a bash at Northampton some time ago in a convenient hotel with a large car park. Bit more central. Any interest in that? At least it's closer to Canterbury. [/quote] I think anywhere between Milton Keynes and Northampton is a reasonable north/south compromise. Whilst it might look a bit to the south on a map of the UK, it mustn't be forgotten that to get there many of us poor southerners have to negotiate the M25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted March 1, 2012 Author Share Posted March 1, 2012 Thinking about this, I could easily set something up in Canterbury, in Medway, or possibly in Surrey (M25-land/M3-corridor) but any further afield I'd require help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobVbass Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 [quote][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]the most [/font][/color][email="cr@p"]cr@p[/email][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] DB player on BassChat![/font][/color][/quote] Hold on a minute Clarky, I know I've not been around lately but who said you could take my position over?? Bl**dy cheek! It's taken me 27 years to get this awful.. Seriously - hope everything's OK mate I might be up for a bass meet, you can try my cheap old rattly Framus out and feel better about your bass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordsetcetera Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 On topic. I suggest Peter Tyler. Lovely fella, usually has a range of basses. http://www.tylerbasses.co.uk/page3.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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