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06-09-2009, 11:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | |  The Bohmann takes a vacation.
Story time kids....
Went out the other night to visit/hear our fellow TBer, Bijoux (Barbosa) who was playing slab with Nelson Rangell, my musical son Eric Gunnison on piano, and drummer Mike Marlier. On a break, Eric and I were talking about a European tour we were on back in the 80's. He was with Carmen McRae, as well as Scott Colley and Mark Pulice, drums.
I was doing dates with a bunch of assorted headliners all over da place. I was supposed to do a week with Clifford Jordan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL_WDbOh7Mo (Carmen and the boys in Montreal during that time. Scott w/ hair).
Cliff got sick and cancelled, giving me a paid week vacation before my last date.
CATCH: The promoter, Larry Clothier, bought a seat for my bass on the plane over, so I was without my travel case.
Eric and the boys had a week off, as well......we had lunch together at The North Sea Jazz Festival at The Hague, Holland and they invited me to join them for a Euro-Rail vacation. Scott was gonna leave his bass (The Morelli) stored at the Train Station in his hard case. No prob. What about me and the Bohmann? Yes, children, bring it along.
We (mainly me, and Scott) schlepped the damn bass all over Europe for a, not so gay, paid vacation.
The crap we put up with was unbelievable. Ass-Hole-Ish remarks in about five different languages.
We ended up at the station in Amsterdam. Next door was a museum. A banner over the entrance read: "Instruments of Torture Throughout History".
Eric took a picture of me and the Bohmann standing underneath. 
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06-09-2009, 01:37 PM
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06-09-2009, 02:55 PM
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06-09-2009, 05:17 PM
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Yeah I know, huh.
Nothing can compete with Death...by a slow, agonizing ballad.
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06-09-2009, 05:23 PM
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06-09-2009, 05:39 PM
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So......tell us about all your world travels.
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06-09-2009, 09:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton  Story time kids....
Went out the other night to visit/hear our fellow TBer, Bijoux (Barbosa) who was playing slab with Nelson Rangell, my musical son Eric Gunnison on piano, and drummer Mike Marlier. On a break, Eric and I were talking about a European tour we were on back in the 80's. He was with Carmen McRae, as well as Scott Colley and Mark Pulice, drums... | Mark Pulice is from and now lives here in my town in the SE corner of Wisconsin. Works in a music store...still plays an a$$load of drums, but way too seldom. Cool to see his name mentioned here.
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06-11-2009, 12:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton So......tell us about all your world travels. | US
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DC not US
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France
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Austria
Greece
Turkey
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06-11-2009, 12:19 PM
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Nice.
So how many BIG names you played with? 
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06-11-2009, 12:45 PM
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06-11-2009, 05:24 PM
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Me too, with yerownself.
Like you said, this room is emptying out.
Better go, while we're a head.
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06-11-2009, 05:51 PM
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09-14-2010, 08:05 AM
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I been digging through old pictures to post on one of my Facebook albums (which has become epic, BTW). and found these to prove that this wasn't all a pipe dream...
Here's where the trouble started. The North Sea Jazz Fest, The Hague, Holland.....Eric Gunnison, Scott Colley (when he had hair), a pianist whose name I can't remember and Carmen's drummer Mark Pulice. Carmen joined us later and said "Yeah, you GOTTA do this".
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09-14-2010, 08:13 AM
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Scott, Mark and me stopped at one of those legal drug bars in Amsterdam. I didn't partake because even though I've consumed a helluva alot of drugs in my life I never dug grass.
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09-14-2010, 08:18 AM
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So Scott and I took turns schlepping the Bohmann....
I haven't found the climax shot Eric took of us under the "Instruments of torture" banner yet but I will.....
EDIT: Scott doesn't have to dance like this anymore because he's a star.
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09-14-2010, 10:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton I haven't found the climax shot Eric took of us under the "Instruments of torture" banner yet but I will..... | Just remember, this is a family oriented website. Don't make me dish out infarctions... |
09-14-2010, 10:57 AM
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Wow. Word play. How clever, DURRL.
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09-14-2010, 11:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: NYC | | | I did one memorable European (Italy, Spain, Germany, France, Slovenia, Norway, Finland) tour where I played 18 different basses in 22 days. String lengths went from 39" on a sweet little Italian bass to (I swear) 44.5" on a giant bass in Pori. Luckily, the music was not technically challenging.
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09-14-2010, 11:32 AM
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Oh, I fergot about that bitch we were talking about in Pori, Steve. Finland rules!
Sorry, DURRL.
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09-20-2010, 11:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: London, UK | | | Bit off topic, but at a festival in Italy recently I was presented with a bass in such a bad condition that anything above C on the G string just made a very strange popping sound,with almost no discernable note. Can't work out what exactly was wrong with it! Luckily it was a mainly groove/ostinato gig (with Mulatu Astatke), so I could just about cope...
by the way, Scott Colley still sounded great when he had hair! |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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