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05-08-2010, 12:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | | | Nashville flood and concern for Nashville TBDB members
I called ex-Nashville drummer Jim White for some up coming dates with me. He was working with Alison Krauss down there when the flood hit.
He told me TBer Ike Harris lost his home. I dropped Ike a PM here and contacted him through his Facebook. Apparently he was in Canada when the flood hit.
That's all I have for now but I'll let you all know if and when I hear more.
Oh, Jim said Barry Bales came through okay.
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05-08-2010, 01:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Hong Kong | | | So sorry to read this news. My prayers and best wishes for you Ike. |
05-08-2010, 06:34 AM
|  | Student of Life Forum Administrator | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Louisville, KY | | Likewise, thoughts and prayers to Ike and the family. We had a flood here last summer that narrowly missed our house but devastated a lot of the surrounding areas. It wasn't a pretty sight.  |
05-08-2010, 07:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Chicago | | | Lousy news, so sorry, Ike. |
05-08-2010, 09:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Seattle,Wa. | | | Sorry to hear this... |
05-08-2010, 10:53 AM
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Vice President: Upton Bass String Instrument Co. | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Warwick, RI & Stonington, CT | | | We just had a run in with some high water a month ago here...crazy weather lately.
Ike, I feel for your losses and the pita this will be for you, but I am glad you are well. PM sent. |
05-08-2010, 12:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Geez, Ike. My thoughts are with you and your family. Anything we can do? |
05-08-2010, 12:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Central Florida | | | As long as Ike and his family are okay, everything else can be repaired or replaced, thank God.
John
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05-08-2010, 02:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: West Tennessee | | | Sorry to hear about this Ike.
My mother-in-law's home was wiped out by one of the tornadoes that hit TN last Sunday morning. My sister-in-law's home as well as the homes of several close friends were heavily damaged or destroyed. One week ago today, all those folks had a lot of things that were prized possessions. Now those things have been burned, buried, or tossed into a dumpster. One friend summed it up pretty well. He, his family and his parents took shelter in his basement about 5 minutes before the rest of the house was literally blown away. After the tornado passed, he looked up into the sky and told his dad "Well, everything that is really important to me is right here in this basement." Everyone I know affected by these storms says the same thing.
It puts a lot of things in perspective.
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05-08-2010, 04:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Nashville, TN | | | Nashville Flooding Hits Home
I don't know whether he would want me to say anything or not, but...
I was just informed yesterday by a mutual friend that stellar Nashville double bassist and fellow TBDB member, Ike Harris, lost all four of his double basses in the recent, catastrophic flooding here in Nashville. He and his family lost A LOT more than that but hearing of the loss of his instruments just particularly hits home with us around here. Hide glue and water aren't a good combination and, as I understand it, many of his instruments are now in pieces. I don't know which, if any, of his instruments might be restorable. I ask that everyone here please keep him in your thoughts and/or prayers. I would also encourage anyone who can afford it to possibly make a small (or large) donation to the Nashville flood relief efforts or, if you are an AFM member, I believe the union has set up a flood relief program, the proceeds of which go directly to impacted musicians like Ike. Thanks so much...
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05-08-2010, 04:38 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Central Alabama | | | A friend just forwarded pics of a massive amount of equipment belonging to Brad Paisley that was ruined by the flood. |
05-08-2010, 04:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Nashville, TN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Stinsok  A friend just forwarded pics of a massive amount of equipment belonging to Brad Paisley that was ruined by the flood. | Two of the musicians I'm on tour with this week had gear stored in lockers at Soundcheck, (where Paisley's gear was) and haven't even been home yet to see the damage to their stuff first-hand. The flooding here has been horribly devastating to many, but also particularly so to many musicians who had their gear stored at Soundcheck which is situated right on the banks of the Cumberland River. The pictures I've seen so far of instruments and gear coming out of there are pretty sobering.
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05-09-2010, 08:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Upstate, SC | | | Ike,
Hope you and your family are all safe and that you can rebuild. Thoughts and prayers coming your way.
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05-09-2010, 08:41 AM
|  | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | | Ike,
So sorry to hear this news. I hope it's some comfort to know that you're in our thoughts. May things go as smoothly as possible for you.
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05-09-2010, 08:46 AM
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Very unfortunate.
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05-09-2010, 08:56 AM
| | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | There's been an Ike Harris thread going here. I'll ask the mods to link 'em. 
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05-09-2010, 10:07 AM
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Bass Hobby'ist | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Southern PA | | Ike…if you need something let me know. We have more then enough to share. I would be glad to loan you anything I have to get you up and playing again.
You have my most sincere heart felt sympathy for you and all the others in Nashville that have lost so much. I’ll be seeing Barry Bales next Sunday…if you need a bass we can slip one onto the AKUS bus for a safe ride back to Nashville.
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05-09-2010, 11:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Nashville, TN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by drurb There's been an Ike Harris thread going here. I'll ask the mods to link 'em. | Thanks for the head's up, drurb. I hadn't seen the other thread, sorry about the redundancy.
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05-09-2010, 12:45 PM
| | Student of Life Forum Administrator | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Louisville, KY | | | Threads merged. Ditto to what Marcus asked. |
05-09-2010, 01:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Peterborough, Ontario, Canada | | | Ike:
I wish you and your family the best in overcoming your losses.
A musical benefit organized by fiddler Randy Morrison is being held here in Ontario (the Brighton arena west of Trenton) on June 12th to help the Nashville musicians who have lost their instruments and belongings.
I will be part of it along with dozens of other musicians so I hope we are able to be of some assistance to you, directly or indirectly.
Randy was just down in Nashville and has many musician friends who have been affected by the flooding.
And Molly Kay...that is a wonderful offer you have made to Ike.
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