The Last Bass Outpost

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

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"

really nice

was expecting Nancy to play the solo, the house band guy did a really great job,
 I went and watched the whole show, Stairway was definitely the high point but there were no flies on any of the other performances, even Kid Rock

yes middle one is my favourite

I was daydreaming about giving my frankentele bass a bit of snarl by putting a jazz pickup close the bridge, but  it occured to me that (a) i dont have a jazz pickup and (b) i have a handful of guitar pickups lying around
  there has been a few mentions of gibson using guitar pickups on basses, and I wondered if anyone had anything to say about sticking a strat single coil  on a bass?

no MP3ed it fine
cheers