Doug Wimbish v Ashdown

[2elliot]

Just spotted Doug Wimbish on the Ashdown site with a link to a youtube demo. He's knocking out a few videos using the B Social unit.

I wonder if he's moving his stage rig over to Ashdown, too? I've only ever seen him use Trace Elliot in the past.

I really like Doug so will be keeping a close eye on this.

A very interesting catch Ashdown!

[Doctor J]

Doug is ridiculously good. I'm surprised to see him leave TE after all this time.

[blue]

[quote name='2elliot' timestamp='1450901660' post='2936912']
Just spotted Doug Wimbish on the Ashdown site with a link to a youtube demo. He's knocking out a few videos using the B Social unit.

I wonder if he's moving his stage rig over to Ashdown, too? I've only ever seen him use Trace Elliot in the past.

I really like Doug so will be keeping a close eye on this.

A very interesting catch Ashdown!
[/quote]

I like Doug, had a chance to chat with him at a small 200 seater gig here in Milwaukee.

Blue

[rungles]

Doug is a ridiculously good player and a very nice guy. The two don't always go hand-in-hand.

[2elliot]

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1450911159' post='2937054']
I like Doug, had a chance to chat with him at a small 200 seater gig here in Milwaukee.

Blue
[/quote]

I met him in Newcastle back in the early 90s, I think it was a Trace Elliot or Warwick promo tour. A very intersting player and a top bloke as well.

[sbrag]

I think he's a great player and nice to hear he's a nice guy too. I do think he needs a bigger pedal board though!

[spectoremg]

[quote name='sbrag' timestamp='1450963094' post='2937413']
I think he's a great player and nice to hear he's a nice guy too. I do think he needs a bigger pedal board though!
[/quote]I was thinking that - the only man who's pedal board is heavier than his (two) Trace rigs!

[Merton]

Lovely guy, great player!

I know he's recently played around with the Retroglide head too, wouldn't be surprised to see him using some form of 12-band head from them in the future especially since Trace seem to have disappeared again.

[MacDaddy]

If not for Vernon Reid messing him about, he would be bassist for the 'Stones.

[NickD]

The guy's a bloody wierdo... at the Bass Show he kept winking and gesturing to me during his set!

... then I realised Cass Lewis, was sat right in front of me...

[warwickhunt]

[quote name='2elliot' timestamp='1450962756' post='2937408']
I met him in Newcastle back in the early 90s, I think it was a Trace Elliot or Warwick promo tour.
[/quote]

TE and it would have been somewhere in Jesmond if it's the same one I went to.

[Russ]

Unsurprising. Ashdown is basically run by most of the same people who ran TE back before the Kaman buyout so he's probably well acquainted with them.

I guess this means Peavey are going to wind up TE once and for all then. That'd be a real shame - another huge name to add to the bass amp graveyard, along with SWR, Genz-Benz and Marshall.