And a short report:
Last week we went to Uwe again. Two Bassist-colleagues, a Musicmaker colleague and I. After again a great dinner round the corner at Uwe's, we went to his office, very high above the ground with a breathtaking view at the Frankfurt Skyline. But our views were of course at the basses.
Normally if I would see like an EB0-F in real life in a shop or something, that would make my day. But here are so many Gibsons, it's almost overwhelming. The 'normal' ones seem to disappear. Everytime I walked around his office I spotted 'new' basses.
Uwe was a real gentleman, as always, providing us with the basses and switching a lead between us, so we all had time to try the basses at his Cube. And of course Herr Hornung played some basses himself too.
I went for my favourites first: The blue non rev and the one pick up cream rev. After that I went for the Explorers because of my early midlife crisis Explorer period. We all tried a lot of basses. Of course last year was even more overwhelming, meeting Uwe and the köllektiön for the first time, but we all felt like kids in a candy store again. What a collection!!
I believe it was over 01:00 when we left that night. And next year the dinner is on us!
It was great to see basses like the singlecut Ripper prototype and ofcourse the cream LP off which I 'designed' the pickguard. Of course we went through all the rarities like the TM Stevens 8-string, the prototypes, the 20/20. Uwe and I also compared the various Blackbird and Nikki Sixx basses.
When one of us asked which bass Uwe would grab when the office caught fire, he took the clownburst without blinking. The man's a born actor.
When we left we found a big garbage container outside at the back of the office, containing lots of chrome Gibson parts, so I took a lot of bridges, covers, tuners and pick ups out of it. So if you need chrome parts: PM me.
I hope next year we'll see the new Nikki Sixx (which was at Uwe's son if I'm correct), the BFG, the new Grabber and Ripper, et cetera.
Thanks again Uwe, for having us strange Dutch guys and showing us around! And like I promised I'll go on hunt for some nice Herman Brood stuff.
