continued from a post in Gibson as the post took off in a direction i didn't intend.
http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=591.msg8114#newThe tear isn’t for the guitar although it should be worth a chunk in 30 years. It is for the memory it evokes, a jam with my black EB-3 (refinned it myself) and my new GK setup. We were thinking of starting a band called “Blue Mourning”. Location Joplin, Mo.
Steve Walker was on guitar, Tom Cuthmell (sp?) on drums, Bill Harris on Hammond organ and Fender Rhoads, me on bass and Steve’s friend Steve Gaines visiting from Miami on second guitar had got invited to stand in. It was spring of 1974. Tom’s wife was in the kitchen along with Cassie. Steve, Steve and I got it together but Tom and I couldn’t quite get it. We were jamming on ‘All Tore Down’ and I couldn’t get the volume right for Tom without drowning him out because I couldn’t concentrate. If I got it right for him, then I was drowning out the guitars. I ended up going too deep into the mud and not enough volume. My eyes, ears, thoughts and attention were all on Cassie. She stole my heart the first and only time I saw her.
Tom was the more or less leader of the group and I didn’t get chosen to become the bass player. I think I played circles around the guy they did choose, but the other bassman owned a PA system and I didn’t.
As I remember they didn’t end up going anywhere with the group as it formed. They played the Roadhouse under a different name without Steve Gaines. Yes it was near Jasper, MO but it was west just over the Kansas line south of Pittsburg and a long time before Swayze did his movie thing. The place burnt down not long after.
The rest is history and I never seen Cassie or Steve G again. I sold my equipment, bought an Alvarez 5044 acoustic and 32 years later bought that SGRI.
What was your first audition like?