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[Jake deVilliers]

Sorry, I've no idea what that is.... oh, wait, we call that "ahi" here.

Right, kinda like sushi.

 

[MT Spaces]

Yes Indeed .... Thanks for putting up with all of us at your cool-bass-pad Troy. It was great meeting your family unit .... Kirsten, your son Del (with his great Winston Churchill impression), and Nancy The Happy Dog. I enjoyed meeting and hearing all the bassists and basses and, although I was fighting with my ADD, I tried to soak in as much info as I could in the short time available.

There was some awesome energy in that living room on Sunday . Sunday was my birthday and that was the best party I ever had. I thoroughly enjoyed myself just watching Jake The Luthier Dynamo thumping on tailpieces and fingerboards, listening to afterlength tuning, sticking his mirror into dark places, talking about the importance of minimizing grams, and explaining how he gets all the parts of a bass to work together constructively. Getting my Jake-reworked Epiphone back was just about the best present of the week-end .... Right behind getting out of Seattle traffic without getting in a wreck after getting lost and taking an extra 30 mile diversion south (it's a bitch driving alone with no navigator ), then finally seeing the I-90 East sign, and then crossing over the last big pass into Montana .

Pacific Northwest, a great climate for acoustic basses!

Yep .... On this visit to Seattle I believe that is the most humidity my 1940 Kay has seen in over 60 years . Somehow I'm not so sure Montana qualifies me to be a PacNW bassist .

 

[TroyK]

You held out on his about your birthday! Well, I will say, though that I picked my bass up from Jake last year on my birthday too. Odd....

 

[MT Spaces]

I didn't want to get spanked by that many bassists . Besides Al would have ruined his nice bow whoopin' my butt . Soooo ... You got Ilsa the Carved Czech Beauty Queen back from Jake on Your birthday ?? Strange Indeed !!

 

[Jake deVilliers]

You could have told us Bob, we're gentle rain-forest people out here. Surely you noticed how many pairs of Birkenstocks there were?
Of course, you might have been hugged to bits...

 

[D McCartney]

Happy belated anyway Bob. Glad you made it home ok. Seattle is fun to drive in, isn't it?

 

[MT Spaces]

Bigger Picture ......

...... In the photo, left to right (your left, not ours): Dwight, Al, Bob, Nancy (With the Laughing Face) {below}, Troy, Maiken, John and Jake .....