The Big Fat South-West Bass Bash - Now Sunday 19th September 2021

[Frank Blank]

  On 12/09/2020 at 08:41, Chienmortbb said:

I hate to be the one to say it but based on the comments at the press conference on Thursday, the maximum of 6 people for will be in place for weeks maybe months. I think that we are now looking at next April!

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Sadly this looks like the case, but what a Bash we’ll have when we get there!

[Cuzzie]

We would have all accumulated all kinds of gear

[Frank Blank]

  On 12/09/2020 at 08:51, Cuzzie said:

We would have all accumulated all kinds of gear

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Much as the bass guitars all look lovely it’s the Scrumpette’s roast potatoes* that I have in my particular tractor beam.

*not a euphemism.

Edited September 12, 2020 by Frank Blank

[Jabba_the_gut]

  On 12/09/2020 at 08:51, Cuzzie said:

We would have all accumulated all kinds of gear

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I reckon I’ll have half a dozen new basses I haven’t taken there before!! 

  On 12/09/2020 at 09:28, Frank Blank said:

Much as the bass guitars all look lovely it’s the Scrumpette’s roast potatoes* that have in their particular tractor beam.

*not a euphemism.

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Absolutely!! 
 

[prowla]

  On 12/09/2020 at 08:41, Chienmortbb said:

I hate to be the one to say it but based on the comments at the press conference on Thursday, the maximum of 6 people for will be in place for weeks maybe months. I think that we are now looking at next April!

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Curious isn't it - you measure more and you get more results...

[Frank Blank]

  On 12/09/2020 at 09:31, Jabba_the_gut said:

I reckon I’ll have half a dozen new basses I haven’t taken there before!! 

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Hopefully I’ll be bringing one of them so you’ll have room for one more.

[Andyjr1515]

I might even have mine back from Matt Mariott by then!! 

Hmmm...pro-musician...hard times....     No,  that's alright - I was forgetting, they're both my own designs.  Happily, they will be worthless to the discerning buyer 

[Frank Blank]

  On 12/09/2020 at 11:20, Andyjr1515 said:

worthless to the discerning buyer

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First line of my CV, there.

[Triumph_Rock]

Well gives me more time to learn in prep for meeting everyone. At the moment I've just learned a 12 bar blues lick. I'm struggling to mute strings I'm not playing. So practice practice practice.

I doubt my kit will change. But I did have a look online at the Gibson SG Bass reissue. 

 

[Pea Turgh]

I reckon another full lockdown will be along by autumn.

Next April though, we should have a bar there and make it a two day event!

[scrumpymike]

  On 12/09/2020 at 08:41, Chienmortbb said:

I hate to be the one to say it but based on the comments at the press conference on Thursday, the maximum of 6 people for will be in place for weeks maybe months. I think that we are now looking at next April!

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Sadly you're right, as it's become clear within the last 24 hours that we're heading towards a second wave.  I've already decided to talk to the hall manager on Monday and will then post a selection of available Sundays in May/June next year so we can collectively decide what suits us Bashers best (my feeling is that the usual early April date might be a bit too soon).  In the meantime, we can all proceed on the basis that, regrettably:

The Big Fat South-West Bass Bash is off until further notice!! ☹️

The good news is that I'll be able to bring my Mesa TT-800 that's due for delivery at the end of October 😎

[Jabba_the_gut]

  On 12/09/2020 at 11:47, Pea Turgh said:

I reckon another full lockdown will be along by autumn.

Next April though, we should have a bar there and make it a two day event!

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Great idea. Twice as much food....

[Frank Blank]

  On 12/09/2020 at 11:40, Triumph_Rock said:

Well gives me more time to learn in prep for meeting everyone.

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It’s no good preparing pieces to play, you can’t hear anything over the cacophony of everyone playing everything all the time and then you can’t hear anything over the post-prandial burp/fart fest.

[Triumph_Rock]

  On 12/09/2020 at 12:45, Frank Blank said:

It’s no good preparing pieces to play, you can’t hear anything over the cacophony of everyone playing everything all the time and then you can’t hear anything over the post-prandial burp/fart fest.

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Not sure anybody will want to hear a beginner play, that is slow, suffers with the odd fret buzz, and sometimes struggles to mute strings that ring in harmony with the plucked note on another string. 😉

Edited September 12, 2020 by Triumph_Rock

[Frank Blank]

  On 12/09/2020 at 12:51, Triumph_Rock said:

Not sure anybody will want to hear a beginner play, that is slow, suffers with the odd fret buzz, and sometimes struggles to mute strings that ring in harmony with the plucked note on another string. 😉

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Don’t you worry about any of that, the Bass Bashes are the very antithesis of all that old bollo. Your description of your playing is exactly how I’d describe mine and I have a gas at the Bashes.

[scrumpymike]

  On 12/09/2020 at 11:40, Triumph_Rock said:

Well gives me more time to learn in prep for meeting everyone. At the moment I've just learned a 12 bar blues lick. I'm struggling to mute strings I'm not playing. So practice practice practice.

I doubt my kit will change. But I did have a look online at the Gibson SG Bass reissue. 

 

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I had one of the 2014 SG re-issues in black and loved everything about it - except the slight neck dive.  Gigged it for a few years before selling and now wish I'd kept it!!

[Triumph_Rock]

  On 12/09/2020 at 12:58, scrumpymike said:

I had one of the 2014 SG re-issues in black and loved everything about it - except the slight neck dive.  Gigged it for a few years before selling and now wish I'd kept it!!

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That's good to know Mike, I have a Westfield EB3. Love the tone, got used to the neck five. 

I'm thinking when I get a more expensive bass, I'd probably get the Gibson. The only concern I have is the short scale. If they made an SG with a 34" scale I'd be all over it. 

 

[Pea Turgh]

  On 12/09/2020 at 12:51, Triumph_Rock said:

Not sure anybody will want to hear a beginner play, that is slow, suffers with the odd fret buzz, and sometimes struggles to mute strings that ring in harmony with the plucked note on another string. 😉

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Call it jazz

[Frank Blank]

  On 12/09/2020 at 13:09, Pea Turgh said:

Call it jazz

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You, Sir, are bang on.

[BreadBin]

  On 12/09/2020 at 11:47, Pea Turgh said:

I reckon another full lockdown will be along by autumn.

Next April though, we should have a bar there and make it a two day event!

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Bassfest 2021?

[0175westwood29]

  On 12/09/2020 at 12:23, scrumpymike said:

Sadly you're right, as it's become clear within the last 24 hours that we're heading towards a second wave.  I've already decided to talk to the hall manager on Monday and will then post a selection of available Sundays in May/June next year so we can collectively decide what suits us Bashers best (my feeling is that the usual early April date might be a bit too soon).  In the meantime, we can all proceed on the basis that, regrettably:

The Big Fat South-West Bass Bash is off until further notice!! ☹️

The good news is that I'll be able to bring my Mesa TT-800 that's due for delivery at the end of October 😎

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has to be done nothing you can do about it fella,

and yeh a bit later in the year makes sense fingers crossed things are a bit more in control by then

[Stub Mandrel]

On the plus side, by next spring I should be living half way between Midlands and SW Bass bashes.

 

I will have to go to both.

 

For goodness' sake liaise with Jamie so you don't both pick the same weekend!

[Richard R]

  On 12/09/2020 at 12:51, Triumph_Rock said:

Not sure anybody will want to hear a beginner play, that is slow, suffers with the odd fret buzz, and sometimes struggles to mute strings that ring in harmony with the plucked note on another string. 😉

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They put up with me at the 2019 Midlands Bash! Everyone genuinely welcome 😁 Though I was too scared to go and embarrass myself on the green Shuker Uberhorn, I did at least play simple scales on a couple of others. 

[Woodinblack]

  On 12/09/2020 at 19:21, Richard R said:

Though I was too scared to go and embarrass myself on the green Shuker Uberhorn, 

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Ooh, which green uberhorn was that?

[Richard R]

  On 12/09/2020 at 12:51, Triumph_Rock said:

Not sure anybody will want to hear a beginner play, that is slow, suffers with the odd fret buzz, and sometimes struggles to mute strings that ring in harmony with the plucked note on another string. 😉

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They put up with me at the 2019 Midlands Bash! Everyone genuinely welcome 😁 Though I was too scared to go and embarrass myself on the green Shuker Uberhorn, I did at least play simple scales on a couple of others.