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12-04-2008, 06:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Syracuse N.Y. | | | Green Double Basses
It doesn't get much greener than this;
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12-04-2008, 06:45 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | Hmmm...looks a bit "slimy".... 
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12-04-2008, 07:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Canada | | | Wow, someone has spent alot of effort waxing the floor! |
12-04-2008, 08:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Isn't that Matthew Tucker's "Shrek" bass? |
12-04-2008, 10:29 AM
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Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | | I thought it was called 'Kermit'.......... |
12-04-2008, 10:30 AM
|  | ...or Jason, if you insist on vowels. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: San Francisco Bay Area | | | Matthew's been having us on. He carved that out of an apple! |
12-04-2008, 03:23 PM
| | | | Looks like the green bass William Parker gave to Henry Grimes, "Olive Oil". |
12-04-2008, 05:32 PM
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Maker of HPF-Pre upright bass preamp | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison WI | | | The bass looks good "in the green" but that bassist needs some fattening up. Send him to Wisconsin for a winter. We'll take care of him. |
12-04-2008, 05:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Madison, WI/Indianapolis, IN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by fdeck  The bass looks good "in the green" but that bassist needs some fattening up. Send him to Wisconsin for a winter. We'll take care of him. | Bear Brats, Fried Cheese Curds and a good Lager should fix him right up. |
12-04-2008, 05:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Eli_Upright12 Bear Brats | Interesting.... you make your own? |
12-04-2008, 06:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Madison, WI/Indianapolis, IN | | | haha yeah only durin huntin season.
By the way that was supposed to be Beer Brats. If you've never had them you need to, by far the best part of wisconsin. |
12-04-2008, 06:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Eli_Upright12 haha yeah only durin huntin season.
By the way that was supposed to be Beer Brats. If you've never had them you need to, by far the best part of wisconsin. | I was born in Rhinelander, and weaned directly onto brats. |
12-04-2008, 07:07 PM
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Maker of HPF-Pre upright bass preamp | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison WI | | Hah, brats on brats.  |
12-04-2008, 07:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Madison, WI/Indianapolis, IN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Marcus Johnson I was born in Rhinelander, and weaned directly onto brats. | Marcus does that make you a Hodag? |
12-04-2008, 07:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Almost.... I actually was raised in Manitowish Waters, and I went to Lakeland HS in Minocqua. |
12-04-2008, 08:11 PM
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Maker of HPF-Pre upright bass preamp | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison WI | | | We weaned our kids onto brats too. Actually, frozen pre-cooked breakfast sausages were the bees knees when we were in a hurry. |
12-05-2008, 02:39 PM
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Originally Posted by ctregan It doesn't get much greener than this; | Do you have anything else/info to add about this instrument? It does look like Henry Grimes instrument. |
12-05-2008, 03:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: New Fairfield, CT | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MR PC Do you have anything else/info to add about this instrument? It does look like Henry Grimes instrument. | It is our own Matthew Tucker's bass. If memory serves he made it for his daughter? VARNISH MATTERS
Maybe Matthew will find the thread on that if there is one.
...btw, here's Henry Grimes' green bass. Look how nice it matches his shirt!  |
12-05-2008, 03:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | I'm tellin' ya, man... it's Matthew Tucker's Shrek bass, an old ply that he resurrected and finished in Shrek green.
PS.. Thanks, Mingus. Posted right after you. |
12-05-2008, 09:35 PM
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Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | You can find that nice Green bass and more at Matthew Tucker's new site here: http://bresque.studio205.net.au/ |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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