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dream attack
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 Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:09 pm Post subject: Bass Guitars. |
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I actually just posted this query on you're Youtube I-Travel masterclass, but thought it'd be better signing up to the forum and asking it directly (tried registering months back to no avail, unfortunately!). However, seems I've succeeded tonight. 
Derek, you inspired me to buy a 4-string Passion with a wooden thru-neck from Patrick and Lena Vigier about 20 years ago.
I noticed with the Four Good Men you're still playing a Passion (or should that be WITH passion?  ), a pale blue one if the grainy footage I regrettably only ever see of the band on Youtube is anything to go by. Didn't you play a stunning pearlescent white bodied one with Propaganda, if I recall correctly? Have all your Passion's been carbon fibre through-necks?
Murray de Schot, AMSTERDAM.
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dream attack
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BUMP!!!
Come on Derek MAAAAAAAN!!!, give us a wee bit of an overview of your bass history/collection!
There were WAL's, Fenders, Vigiers ... I'm sure there are many stories to be told.
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ALI BIN TABNAB
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| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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Well take it all back then, take it all back I demand...
Del Boy aint no namedropper  |
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dream attack
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| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| ALI BIN TABNAB wrote: |
Del Boy aint no namedropper |
I used to be a terrible name dropper myself. Then I met this girl that I REALLY liked that thought I was just out to impress her. She wasn’t.
Firstly, I ‘claimed’ to know loads of musicians from my days in the music business. She was singularily unimpressed. We went to see New Order play. Through the cloods of dry ice and inbetween Barney’s off-key-strangled warblings and Peter Hook’s out-of-tune bass growling they both looked into the crowded audience and pointed “ F*ckin’ ‘ell, it’s Murray!”. The girl was a wee bit impressed. Same sort of thing happened at a succession of other band's gigs thereafter; backstage passes, share of the riders, etc., etc..
Anyway, she thought that I was just boasting when I told her that I knew a few Formula One and Indy Car stars. She REALLY didn’t believe me. Well, one day, as we headed down South, close to the border, I did a wee detour to the village/hamlet of Twynholm for a spot of lunch. Unbeknown to me, as we sat down, David Coulthard and his brother, Duncan walked in to the bar. Next thing I know, David is at the table greeting me. We spent the next few hours at his folk’s house at the end of Twynholm reminicing over our youthful days karting in Scotland. A similar thing happened a few weeks later in Livingston town centre when we bumped into Dario Franchitti, Indy500 winner and husband of Hollywood actress, Ashley Judd. She was starting to get VERY impressed at the amount of people that knew me.
Next on the agenda was meeting Billy Connelly and Pamela Anderson at Dyce Airport in Aberdeen. Billy and I were former next door neighbours, albeit my door-to-his Candacraig Estate, and over coffee we discussed the health of Old Donald McWilliams’ elderly sheepdog, “Tess” and other gossip from the mountains of Strathdon. Now she was getting VERY impressed!
One day she said to me “I’m a devout catholic. I bet you don’t know The Pope!”. I replied that if I had a personal papal audience would she agree to my perverted, deviant, barely legal (EVEN in Holland!) sexual requests? She pondered a moment, and then agreed.
So, a couple of weeks later, we flew to Rome and went to the Vatican City. As we reached the gates, one of the Swiss Guard said that due to security reasons only I could enter. Well, this presented me with a problem. How would I be able to prove that I had actually met The Pope. Quick-thinking this one out, I suggested she stood in the middle of St.Peter’s Square and waited. Well, I met the ex-nazi and we spoke warmly about what he probably REALLY did in WWII. As our meeting drew to a conclusion, I lent over and explained the predicament I was in with this girl and the agreement over the unspeakable sexual depravity I had planned. The old boy came up with a solution. We walked out to the balcony and waved at the crowds. The girl, standing below, was ecstatic and grabbed a nearby nun and said to her, “Do you know who that is up there?”.
The nun turned and replied “I don’t know who the funny old man is with the skull cap on, but that’s Murray de Schot beside him!”
As a name dropping aside, I WAS in a café last week in Amsterdam when Stephen Spielberg walked in! FACT.
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ALI BIN TABNAB
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| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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| And the moral of the story is... |
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dream attack
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| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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| ALI BIN TABNAB wrote: | | And the moral of the story is... |
It was a lame joke, NOT a story ... I'd give the sitar and those funny fags a rest for a wee while!
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 11:10 am Post subject: |
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| ps. looks like Derek's latest Vigier is an Excess with a delta metal fretless fingerboard. |
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dream attack
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 11:21 am Post subject: |
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Derek broke that lovely white Passion? I'm now heartbroken *typing with tears welling up*.
Daft b@st@rd!!!
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Yes, I broke it onstage at King Tuts with Spear of Destiny, but had Patrick and Lina fix it. It is now Ferrarri Red and plays like a dream.
 not so daft bastard
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dream attack
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| dforbes wrote: | Yes, I broke it onstage at King Tuts with Spear of Destiny, but had Patrick and Lina fix it. It is now Ferrarri Red and plays like a dream.
not so daft bastard |
Touche ... so WHAT other weapons of choice have you got in yer armoury, Mr Not So Daft Bastard?
Did you ever try, or indeed use, their Nautilus system?
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I have had my very own Black and Gold Nautilus for around 24 years, which I used on 'Don't You' and Kirsty MacColl's ' New England' and 'He's on the Beach'. 19 presets and more controls than you could shake a stick at. Well heavy (weight), so not so good for 'live' work.
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billy
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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black and gold Nautilus! one of these?
http://www.sense3d.com/whelkbike.html
can't remember one of these on don't you though.......
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Did they make that on Blue Peter?
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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Prefer this Nautilus (Bowers and Wilkins)to listen to "Don't You" on!
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