| Archive for fourgoodmen.myfreeforum.org Forum For Fans Of Scottish Band FOURGOODMEN |
| dream attack |
Bass Guitars.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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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 |
Well take it all back then, take it all back I demand...
Del Boy aint no namedropper 
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| dream attack |
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 |
And the moral of the story is... | ||
| dream attack |
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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| Barry Beatmaster |
http://derekforbes.blogspot.com/2...ssue-with-my-interview-in-it.html | ||
| Barry Beatmaster |
ps. looks like Derek's latest Vigier is an Excess with a delta metal fretless fingerboard. | ||
| dream attack |
Derek broke that lovely white Passion? I'm now heartbroken *typing with tears welling up*.
Daft b@st@rd!!! |
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| dforbes |
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 |
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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| dforbes |
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 |
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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| dforbes |
Did they make that on Blue Peter?
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| dream attack |
Prefer this Nautilus (Bowers and Wilkins)to listen to "Don't You" on! 
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I tried one at the Bass Centre in London about 1990. Can't recall how heavy it was, as I was sitting down, but I recall that it was an all bells and whistles system and WELL beyond my feeble comprehension of bells and whistles. |
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| dforbes |
As Lauren Bacall once said..." just put your lips together and blow"
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| dream attack |
A game old bird indeed! Did you see her on The Soprano's episode with (Sir - Where's the wanka emoticon when you need one?! ) Ben Kingsley, episode?
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| FUNFOXYLADY007 |
You honestly don't want me to answer that ......
The question is with teeth in or out 
Fun xxxx |
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| dforbes |
Teeth should always be worn in the head
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| Barry Beatmaster |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7W1p8odZ_E never heard that one before. a familiar face at 0.43? |
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| dream attack |
I'm still trying to work out the connotations of the Frank Zappa track, "Baby, Take your teeth out"?
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| dream attack |
easier than finding out Squire Forbes' bass history/collection!
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| ALI BIN TABNAB |
Ye cannit beat a bit o' Mango Chutney, eh Murray.
Sits well on popadoms afore a 'Fook-arf Ringsting Vindaloo' Ere, ye cannit wack a visit titha lurkle Tandoori Gaff. Mind, the last Injunz a had cost uz 85 quid - all in. Aye, a tenner for the scran, then a extra 70 sheets to get the council out the next day to fumigate me hoose!!!! 
There's a lush bit o stuff waitin on the chebbles anarl. Shobna it's called. Nips like JCB starta buttons. 
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| Sleepy |
Nips like monkeys taes man!
A bit o' spiced onion n' pershwari nan wi that anarl!!! |
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