I finally met a TB'er in the flesh

yeah, he had a post about this not to long ago, sounds great, I met a grip of Tb cats at the NAMM bass bash, which was fun. It's definitely nice to put a person behind all the words.

 

32,000 members to choose from, and you get stuck with Bruce. I hope he bought dinner at least.

 

been on the boards for a long while now (dont worry, mods, the membership is coming!!), and stoopidly missed last year's Philly TB Blowout. but suddenly, i met a flurry of gents just within the past month.

two gents i met while selling my gear: Scotsman Dave Wilson to whom i sold my HBP-1 preamp, and Canadian Frank to whom went my iAMP350. and hung out with fellow New Yawker, Steve aka Devilman, at Nick Epifani's shop last week.

hopefully, with the 3 new groups i'm working with (yea, i'm a nut... ), i'll be able to meet s'more y'all when i start gigging again!

 

OMG!!!

 

...the lump strikes again!



A lump-ectomy?

...or a lump-otomy??

 

Chances are, I'll never meet a' one of you. Unless, of course, one of you lives within twenty miles of Greensboro, North Carolina. Which is doubtful.

 

Actually, you have ample opportunity I would imagine. There are a great many fans of the work of Keith Roscoe here on the boards, and his shop is in Greensboro. I know I'm planning a trip to visit him soon myself...

 

I met this dude, I just do not know what is TB name is. He goes to my school.

 

What's his service, and what's the name of the shop?

(God, I don't even know what he's talking about, and I live here! )

 

Whoops. Double-post.

 

He lives around the corner from my school in some gated community

 

Hi Andy - I did mention it in another thread. I used the Lakland on gigs in Sussex on Friday and Saturday night. I am really into it now - it has sort of renewed my intrest in BG after I was getting more into EUB.

It was a good thing I did buy it or you would never have spotted me in New Oxford Street in the rush hour!!

Isn't it interesting how you can have a perfectly civil argument about Punk in Britain, in person, which would probably deteriorate rapidly around here!!

I think we share a sarcastic sense of humour which just doesn't come across on boards like this and whereas I go round thinking I am making jokes like in our conversation - people just don't 'get it' online?

 

I'm meeting somebody from TB tomorrow to trade effects. At least from what can be read on these forums, the people here are generally of a higher caliber than the rest of the population... Can I expect the same of them in the real world?

 

Probably right - I've said before I'm the Victor Meldrew of TB - but other people don't see the humour in these situations or get the cultural references.

So when I complain about kids playing with effects and dressing up as Goths, making horrible sounds out of basses, I am thinking of Victor Meldrew or John Cleese and to me it's funny - my life is sometimes like a situation comedy !

I saw a documentary on sitcoms and Caroline Quentin was saying that Brit sitcoms like "men Behaving Badly" are too realistic for the US - although it was pointed out that in real life nobody is scripting you, so - every third rejoinder is not a great joke and it's usually just boring sitting in the pub with your mates!!

 

I had the pleasure of meeting Malthumb at a guitar show here in Detroit. He was the nicest guy. And, when he played, people paid attention. Too little time though.

 

I've met up with Parrot in Glasgow a while back. Only hung out for like an hour or so, not much time!

Great guy

*cleans mouth*