slowfinger

I've been away from the forum and bass playing///////holding for a few years, and just popped in on a whim - this was the 1st thread I spotted I was wondering about Jeremy - I knew he was having trouble but it seems it caught up with him. So sad. My wife and I were in SF (from Australia) in late 2010 and Jeremy came over from where he lived to meet us and show us around a bit. Considering a) it was a day after the Giants won the World Series, b) and so the traffic on Bay Bridge was awful because of the big parade about to happen, and c) he was squeezing us in before an oncology appointment, we were humbled by his generosity of spirit. We were delighted to meet him - a lovely person.

Caption: "Well you lads be careful crossing the road now."

I think he left the building after the 3rd post in this thread.

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It's been about a week since I used MS Windows on my laptop. It's now running a Puppy Linux (Slacko 5.29.5) - with Google Chrome, Audacious (MP3 etc player), tuxguitar (PowerTab and GuitarPro player), AbiWord and Gnumeric it does just about everything I need from a PC. Very pleased with myself. The linux loads from a cd (or usb) but saves onto the HDD, boots in half the time of XP and sets itself up quite easily (for a linux).

The Bipolar Bears is taken.

Clover and the Low Bees.

Spit Valve.

The Chromatic Walkups (or has that been taken already?)

Extraordinary Renditions.

Pearl Block and the Bindings.

Hybrid Head The Lightweights

Canned Granyon Hoovered Amps

How about pinching some book titles: Virtual Light - by William Gibson Thirteen Tonne Theory - by Mark Seymour (of the band Hunters and Collectors) Woken Furies - by Richard Morgan Broken Angels - ditto (to continue the Takeshi Kovacs theme)

They wrote nice things about your orchestra in the last para - the one starting "Lastly ...". I'd be quietly pleased if I was in your place. Well done.

Pretty quiet around here now the kids have gone home, and so, since tomorrow is Saturday here is a couple of 'tubes: love this - in more ways than one: This is the original - got all weepy hearing it again: enjoy ... (I'm just going to watch them again)

One Fat Freddie's Cat's tricks was to pee in Fat Freddies IBM electric typewriter, so davio's note is wise. In my yoof I shared an apartment with 2 guys who were the spitting images of Fat Freddy and Phineas.

44 here yesterday, 45 today, same tomorrow. That's degrees Celcius - fairly warm and not very pleasant.

We went to a show last night where a couple of these long scale instruments were being played: (sorry about the big pic - it is a link on http://theorbo.com/Theorbo/Theorbo.htm) http://theorbo.com/Theorbo/Confortini.jpg It was a performance of Monteverdi's 'The Coronation of Poppea' using the original score and more or less original orchestration and instruments.

Ha! I do that.

Maisie if you got into one of these ( http://www.danahall.org/ or http://www.stmarksschool.org/ both in Massachussets) you could come to the school I work in as an exchange student.

I don't think it reflects you at all - that's what mirrors are for. btw cool sandals.

McGeoff - see here: http://www.mia.org.uk/weekendwarriors/

Put some new strings on my Epi EB3 on the weekend - first new set. They are Fender Superbass heavies - 50 70 90 110. Seems to fix the problem of floppy E when tuned down a semi, and gives it a more meaty sound. Nicer to play, too. Pleased I am. Seems odd putting Fender strings on a 'Gibby'.

Google is your friend: http://collingwoodfc.com.au/ Collingwood fans (The Black and White Army) are a sorry bunch of misguided fanatics. Sadly 17 years since this one: http://shop.afl.com.au/magpies/graphics/products/product_AVDPR9001.jpg Carn the Maggies