CamdenRob Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 Not a physical resemblance, but people have often done a double take when they’ve heard me playing thinking it was Bobby Vega... 😐 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleat Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 (edited) This isn't exactly being mistaken for someone famous as such , but at a pub gig somewhere in Birmingham years ago a rather nice drunk person wobbled their way up to me between songs and shouted "god you're an ugly fu**er, but you're a sh*t hot bass player". To someone who is a) drunk and b) probably never even seen someone play a bass guitar before, anyone playing the damn thing is going to be "sh*t hot " 🤨 At the end of the same gig while loading cars etc... we were told "you lot should of been playing Wembley f*ckin stadium not a pub"... Due to look on their face , we didn't take that as a "you should be famous" compliment but rather something to do with everything being turned up to 11 on our amps for the past 2 hours. 🤪 Edited July 27, 2019 by Bleat 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pintspiller Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 Twenty years ago I was told I looked like that bloke from Gomez. I think it was th specs and the denim jacket wot swung it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazzbass Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 our photographer is a spitting image of Eric Clapton, I'll take a phone pic next time I see him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stub Mandrel Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 There's a rumour that @Teebs is the spitting image of Buckethead. In fact, he's never been seen in his box-shaped disguise at the same time as Buckethead in his KFC bucket, so they could be the same person... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teebs Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 (edited) 14 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said: There's a rumour that @Teebs is the spitting image of Buckethead. In fact, he's never been seen in his box-shaped disguise at the same time as Buckethead in his KFC bucket, so they could be the same person... I started that rumour 18 months ago on FinnBass! Ah - it's such a small world! But are the rumours true? Only two people know the answer... Edited July 29, 2019 by Teebs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teebs Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Some, or all of the above may or may not be true... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mangotango Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 I get Billy Joel sometimes. Sadly, it's Billy Joel now, at 70, not in his "I'm married to Christie Brinkley" phase. And yes, I know...it's a guitar..... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teebs Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 But but but...that's a geetar! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newfoundfreedom Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 21 minutes ago, Teebs said: But but but...that's a geetar! How dare you insult the man! It's obviously a 6 string high octave bass. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teebs Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 2 minutes ago, Newfoundfreedom said: How dare you insult the man! It's obviously a 6 string high octave bass. Bless you NFF! You are a kind man! Plain wrong...but kind 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SICbass Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 I’m a fair man, the guitar I can let pass, but a MUSIC STAND! Off I pop. You can all just talk amongst yourselves... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mcgiver69 Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 (edited) After a gig I was approached by a lady asking me if I was that bloke from the Fine Young Cannibals Edited July 29, 2019 by Mcgiver69 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newfoundfreedom Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 6 minutes ago, Mcgiver69 said: After a gig I was approached by a lady asking me if I was that bloke from the Fine Young Cannibals She meant Roland Gift Yup. Definitely a resemblance. Especially if you were to grow a bit of facial fuzz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SICbass Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 1 hour ago, Mcgiver69 said: After a gig I was approached by a lady asking me if I was that bloke from the Fine Young Cannibals Understandable really. It's your shirt, almost identical. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevB Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 When I wore rounder specs I was sometimes likened to Roy Wood. I'll take that, met him once. Lovely bloke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mangotango Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 (edited) On 29/07/2019 at 12:45, SICbass said: I’m a fair man, the guitar I can let pass, but a MUSIC STAND! Off I pop. You can all just talk amongst yourselves... There's a story there, that deals with both guitar and music stand, and allows us to get back to Billy Joel. #missingthepointguys That gig, for the trumpeter/band leader's company's Summer Event, was booked for the quartet - trumpet/keys/bass/drums, playing two sets of original funk/jazz music. On the morning of the gig, the keyboards player rang up injured and unable to walk around, let alone drive there. Worse, he was going to be bringing the drummer. Two down before we started. So either we cancelled, which would not look so good for Mr. Band Leader; or the remaining two of us played it as a guitar/trumpet duo gig - we'd done that format before, so we knew that it was feasible. Clearly we weren't going to be able to replicate a 4-piece band vis-à-vis the original material, so we ended up playing jazz standards. Since I don't, off the top of my head, know hundreds of standards in enough detail for playing chord-melody jazz guitar for two 30 minute sets with zero rehearsal, I used charts from a Realbook for those I couldn't recall . Everyone seemed happy with the arrangements, we saved face and moved on without losing ground. All good. Next time I'll just crop the photo for the benefit of the more sensitive among you...… Edited August 2, 2019 by mangotango Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybertect Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 I will confess that I never have been much of a Rush fan and never took much notice of them, so I was surprised to be told by a few people that I looked like Geddy Lee toward the back end of the 90s - this pic was taken in 2002. The weirdest bit - after I had learned who he was and a couple of years after this, I was visiting Land's End in Cornwall on holiday and I will swear Geddy walked right past me - my wife did a double take, too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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