Lost Bass? BASS FOUND

**Bob Gollihur** · #1 09-12-2010, 10:34 AM

Got this message from a guy, and in addition to posting it on Gollihur Music I thought this would be a good place. Please contact him if your instrument has gone missing. Bob

Tom B.
Contact Email:
oceanblvd1@hotmail.com

Message:

I live in Los Angeles, CA and I recently FOUND an upright bass. I was coming back from dinner and it was just sitting on the sidewalk across the street from my car. NO ONE was around so I waited there for a good 45 minutes for the owner to return, but none did. I called the police, but after a half hour more of waiting, none showed up, so I took it home. I'm not kidding! If you hear of anyone who lost sn upright bass in the LA area, have them contact me and I'll do my best to reunite them with their instrument. In order to do so, they will have to correctly identify the following details: 1. What street it was left on? Time of day? 2. The brand of bass? 3. The color of the bass? 4. Case or no case? 5. New or used? Thank you for your assistance in this matter. Tom B.

JtheJazzMan · #2 09-12-2010, 04:40 PM

Careful there, I hope they did a rudimentary search for drugs on the inside of the bass!

j.stemmler · #3 09-12-2010, 05:20 PM

my guess is somebody stole it. after growing tired of carrying it, they ditched it.

no bassist in their right mind would leave their bass alone like that. there was definately some foul play involved.

fdeck · #4 09-12-2010, 05:26 PM

Maybe the bass belongs to that kid who was on his way to burn it in front of a luthier's shop.

tbassist4 · #5 09-12-2010, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by fdeck

Maybe the bass belongs to that kid who was on his way to burn it in front of a luthier's shop.

+1.

Or some drunk guy forgot it. There was a guy in the BG forums who boasted about getting his main player (a 5 string jazz) by taking (stealing) one that some drunk guy left after a show. Apparently it happens more than you'd think.

Leaving an upright on street seems less likely than leaving a slab in a bar, but after enough alcohol I think people stop discriminating regarding the size of the things they leave around.

Rocky · #6 09-12-2010, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by j.stemmler

my guess is somebody stole it. after growing tired of carrying it, they ditched it.

no bassist in their right mind would leave their bass alone like that. there was definately some foul play involved.

+1 Thats what my guess would be too. Maybe they got nervous thinking either the owner or cops would find them, and they decided to just bail.

klem.gote · #7 09-12-2010, 07:57 PM

I think it's alive.

Rvl · #8 09-13-2010, 06:27 AM

Our guitar player after a show went out drinking
In the morning he couldnt find his guitar and he couldnt remember all the bars he'd gone too
He bought another guitar the next day
A few weeks later , he went to a bar with some friends and the bartender said " Ohhhh you left your guitar here"

But my guess is that a band was loading gear into 2 cars and the bassist's car was full and told the other guys to put it theirs. And they thought the bassist was putting it in his. I have had the same situation happen with lost gear and lost luggage before.
I even had it happen with people, forgot people in truck stops and gas station bathrooms in the middle of the night on long drives

Thanks

Robert VanLane

drurb · #9 09-13-2010, 07:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fdeck

Maybe the bass belongs to that kid who was on his way to burn it in front of a luthier's shop.

Excellent!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rvl

But my guess is that a band was loading gear into 2 cars and the bassist's car was full and told the other guys to put it theirs.

Now, how many of us would leave our beloved DBs to another band member to take in his/her car?

Will Kelly · #10 09-13-2010, 07:23 AM

My 70 year old father drove off from a gig in downtown San Antonio and got all the way home... about 40 minutes from the gig before he realized he had left his upright bass on the curb by his car.

He went back and lo and behold, it was still there.

Gotta watch the old folks, fellas, they do get a bit lunchy.

jnuts1 · #11 09-13-2010, 07:33 AM

can't believe i am going to admit this but last week i had a late friday night gig & then an early saturday gig. after the saturday gig i wanted to go home so me & the drummer grab the gear, head back to the studio & unload, go home & sleep. next day's jam goes like this, "hey, where is my 72 strat?" after searching & coming up empty & thinking it is stolen at the fest it turns out i left it on the loading dock & someone dropped it off in the office. i was so glad i didn't lose it.

Curley Shadow · #12 09-14-2010, 01:27 PM

I always try to keep instruments in sight but one night after a late gig, I had set bass in case down (was using a Fender in blues bands in those days) for a minute and was helping other band members move equipment when I noticed a bar patron walking with a case that looked suspiciously like mine. I accosted the jerk and got my bass back, it was a '66 Jazz which is fairly valuable now...

**Bob Gollihur** · #13 09-14-2010, 02:15 PM

I am pretty paranoid about my equipment, having had a couple items "walk off" in my early years, as well as fellow musicians have gear taken. The casual attitude that some of my friends have astonishes me, but then I have been living in a much less crime-intensive environment the last 20+ years.

But I'm still paranoid,

especially with instruments that are very special to me.

sbassface · #14 09-17-2010, 10:46 PM

I staight up left my P-bass in VA once my way back to music school in PA, realized it hours later.