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  Isn't Ozzy part of a scientific study around that subject?
dunno what happened to it,it  was an article  in new scientist a couple of years ago, cant remember whether it was an actual study or just an idea, but the premise  was that we could probably learn more by studying people who took really bad care of themselves but still thrived than by looking at those who succumbed.
BTW Lemmy was the other one mentioned alongside Ozzy in the article

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Ed Force One...
« on: February 22, 2016, 11:27:17 AM »
He did his flight training with my next door neighbour, and waaay back, my mother in law was his fencing coach 

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The Bass Zone / Re: The Gigantic Octobass.
« on: February 08, 2016, 12:16:17 PM »
wow

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Famous last words
« on: February 08, 2016, 08:19:38 AM »

 You just can't fix stupid.  :rolleyes:
sounds like he fixed it for himself

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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: CURRENT CATALDO
« on: February 05, 2016, 02:13:14 PM »
oh my word

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The Bass Zone / Re: What the heck does "growl" even mean?
« on: January 25, 2016, 11:06:39 AM »
I agree, I think of growl as purring lows

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: RIP David Bowie
« on: January 12, 2016, 02:14:20 PM »
He was a massive, massive  influence on the teenage me, for about 6 months when I was 17 I listened to him almost exclusively. I am deeply saddened by his passing but also confused by those who are "moved to tears" by someone they have never met.

 It is so like him , when having been given a limited life  expectancy,  to have spent it crafting his musical  farewell to the world , I am glad he managed to see it all through
 
Farewell  Ziggy , Aladdin , The Thin White Duke and all the others

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Gibson Basses / Re: I hesitate to post this. $45 Thunderbird pickups.
« on: January 10, 2016, 03:20:18 PM »
Heid loppit richt aff!  Tatties ower the side!

 I toured a lot with an act where, band and crew, I  was the only non Glaswegian, so I got pretty good at unnerstannin it, but there always came a point , about 4 pints into the afterparty/busride that I was suddenly in a room full of people talking a foreign language ...

 The same band, the singer lived down here so we used to fly up to Glasgow together from Gatwick before heading off wherever, and His accent used to get progressively thicker as the plane  got closer to Scotland.



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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Your thoughts. Motorhead tribute
« on: January 10, 2016, 03:10:32 PM »
  Go for it!

My singing voice is in the same ball park, in fact singing everything in the style of Lemmy was what got me over the hump of believing I could sing at all, so he will always have a special place in my pantheon

  one of my first thoughts when I heard he'd gone was to imagining a tribute concert A la Freddie Mercury, closely followed by... "Hell if i put out the word on the local metal scene for bands to play a handful of motorhead covers at a charity gig i would be beating them off with a stick."
 If I weren't already struggling to fit college and a full time job into my life I probably would have done it 


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Gibson Basses / Re: Duff with a Bird
« on: January 01, 2016, 09:51:39 AM »
I'm a old fan of Duff
 and big fan of Thunderbirds,
  but together? wrong
     

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Lemmy passes away
« on: December 30, 2015, 03:40:28 AM »
I find the words to this really profound now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XhSyMLHQgc

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Lemmy passes away
« on: December 30, 2015, 03:36:58 AM »
Diagnosis is just giving something a name, If the cancer is a rare type or a small one in a critical place you can be ill for quite a while before the Docs can definitively say what it is. Lemmy has clearly been ill for some time, I think the two days between diagnosis and death is likely an artifact of the discovery process

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Lemmy passes away
« on: December 29, 2015, 03:12:51 AM »
everyone has a lemmy story,
 Sami Yaffa just posted this :

What fckng sad news to wake up to,Heres the best live album I know ,to make the day go smooth.
I met the man first time in London-83/84, I was intimidated ,and in awe, as he was to me, a 19 year old bass player,a fckng god. I wasnt a close buddy or anything like that but kept running into him all thru the years up until last year, always had a warm hello and chat.
Years ago, in -84 on one of my usual nightly wanderings I went down to St Moritz club on Wardour street in London where Lemmy was usually feedin coins into the one armed bandit.
I stumbled in, to the below ground level club,high on smack. Lemmy kept lookin at me and caught me on my way to the toilet , lifted my bangs and saw my pinned H eyes.He proceeded to crab me by my throat and lifted me up against the wall and quietly but w a voice that froze my blood said "and what do you think you are doing..." And went on to tell about his hate of heroin, what a useless piece of shit drug it was ,and how many close friends it had taken from him.
That was one of the things that started me thinking about quitting the crap.
About 5 years later I ran into him in NYC at the toys for tots benefit. I had snorted a big line of blow, smack was a thing of the past, quit it in -84.
Lemmy walks over , lifts my bangs, looks me in the eyes and sees two giant saucers, ping pong balls bouncing into space. His response was " oh, you doin alright!"
Thats Lemmy for you, he cared, in his own way.
Honestly, one of THE biggest influences bass wise,the man had integrity&honesty like no one else, and lets face it, the man changed the music.
And also, one of THE funniest mf s ever walked on this earth.

Rest In Piece big man, everyone else pales in comparison.

Thank you

S

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Lemmy passes away
« on: December 29, 2015, 03:00:00 AM »
Sad day for Rock n Roll,
   I know I am biased but I think that in his way he was as great a gamechanger as Presley, Lennon or Rotten, WE will never see his like again, the phrase "they broke the Mould after making him " really applies

  I don't normally get upset about celebrity deaths, but Johnny Winter going hit me in an unexpected way, and now Mr Kilmister has really knocked me for six

  Even though we knew it was coming (Lemmy  bailing on a gig after a couple of songs was one of the hardest things to see, I can only imagine how hard it was for him) somehow we all felt  he was immortal, like Keef he had to have something special to have survived all he did to himself. I only met him once but he was everything you would expect, a genuinely intelligent nice man, his first words to me was  a compliment on my shirt :)

 A friend of mine summed it up
 "woke up to find  the world just got a little quieter"


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The Outpost Cafe / Re: First real bass playing gig in 2 decades !
« on: December 28, 2015, 04:38:04 AM »
That look actually represents my attempt to dress down, one of the things that came up  in the critique of the dress rehearsal was that we looked like 3 different bands, me and the drummer from a punk metal outfit, the rhythm guitarist and singer from some hip hop crew, and our lead guitarist, well she always dresses like she just stepped through a time warp from Carnaby st in 1968 !
 so the Santa look is me trying to dress "street"

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