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Title: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: Deathshead on November 21, 2022, 07:32:05 PM: Howdy folks. Anyone still around here from the Old days from the dudepit etc?

Been out of the mix for a while and trying to possibly track down a fee old basses sold around these parts. Used to go by the name Crimsonghost years ago.

Thanks
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: uwe on November 21, 2022, 10:21:32 PM: I'm here, I used to be Nosbig, a dare I say most brilliant reverse anagram. Or not. Other survivors will no doubt raise their hand as well.

What the hell took you so long?!
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: Dave W on November 21, 2022, 11:10:38 PM: I'd guess about half of our active members are former Pit members. But we're tiny compared to what the Pit was at its height.
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: Basvarken on November 22, 2022, 01:59:32 AM: Yup. Present! I'm still Basvarken ;-)
Welcome back.
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: morrow on November 22, 2022, 05:41:38 AM: I was on the Pit but mostly hung around Camp Bovine.

I’m usually morrow , or msb. Still in contact with many of the Bovinistas.
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: gearHed289 on November 22, 2022, 08:50:26 AM: Yup, I landed here as a result of the Pit. And I landed THERE when I was researching Gibson basses around 2004.
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: uwe on November 22, 2022, 09:47:54 AM: Plus waving the "Don't be mean to Adam Clayton!"-flag, of course.

I actually stumbled across the Dudepit in 2003 via my then burgeoning interest for Gibson basses as well. Was that really almost 20 years ago? How many hours of my life did I waste there and here? :rolleyes:

I remember getting flamed at the Dudepit early on via daring to innocently question the musical necessity/wisdom of multi-string basses in Kings X' and Cheap Trick's, well really anybody's work/output and pointing out that the amount of Top Twenty hits featuring multi-string basses is miniscule (naming myself ELP's Fanfare For The Common Man as a rare exception). The term "shitstorm" didn't exist yet, but I sure walked into a real face-slammin' feces monsoon, endearing myself to Dug Pinnick and Tom Petersson fans. ;D Yet two decades later, the amount of further 8- or 12-string-bass hit songs still remains, uhum, manageable. :P I invite your submissions to the contrary ... :-*

And doesn't everyone agree that Adam Clayton plays kinda simplistic even on just four strings?

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Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: TBird1958 on November 22, 2022, 11:42:45 AM: Oh hai, hai! :gay:

i do miss the 'Pit", that was a wooly place.
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: uwe on November 22, 2022, 11:59:50 AM: Quote from: Basvarken on November 22, 2022, 01:59:32 AM
Yup. Present! I'm still Basvarken ;-)
Welcome back.

Darn Holländer to me you are!
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: uwe on November 22, 2022, 12:04:05 PM: Quote from: TBird1958 on November 22, 2022, 11:42:45 AM

Oh hai, hai! :gay:

I do miss the 'Pit", that was a wooly place.

Needless to say, with an intensity/tenacity usually only found with burrowing rodents, Mark has over the years corrupted this place beyond recognition. This is not your father's Dudepit, be warned!

(https://media.sciencephoto.com/image/z9180109/800wm)
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: uwe on November 22, 2022, 12:06:19 PM: And no threads praising Led Zeppelin, please.
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: TBird1958 on November 22, 2022, 12:46:27 PM: Quote from: uwe on November 22, 2022, 12:04:05 PM
Needless to say, with an intensity/tenacity usually only found with burrowing rodents, Mark has over the years corrupted this place beyond recognition. This is not your father's Dudepit, be warned!

(https://media.sciencephoto.com/image/z9180109/800wm)

The Gay, it burns! :-*
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: Basvarken on November 22, 2022, 01:06:40 PM: Quote from: uwe on November 22, 2022, 11:59:50 AM
Darn Holländer to me you are!

:mrgreen:

Haha, your topographic skills aren't as good as they used to be, are they?
The Netherlands has 12 provinces. Two of them are Holland: North-Holland and South-Holland.
I live in Gelderland. And I was born in Limburg,

But I guess to you those are just part of Ze Reich, no?

8)
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: uwe on November 22, 2022, 02:41:40 PM: Being blessed with a Dutch son-in-law as of next year, you really think I should develop my knowledge of Dutch provinces a bit more? ???

I always thought that nothing noteworthy exists between North and South Holland. 8) Plus "Nie-der-län-der" is a syllable more than "Hol-län-der", doesn't roll off the tongue as quickly.

Still working hard on how I can include that fietsen beslag incident into my wedding speech. Perhaps: "We unfortunately took your bikes, apologies for that, but we are now leaving a daughter in return?" What is the exact Dutch translation of that?
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: Basvarken on November 22, 2022, 02:50:15 PM: There is literally nothing between the two.
We call it the arrogant Randstad.
They call anything east of them “platteland”
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: uwe on November 22, 2022, 03:05:03 PM: We need to educate the forum, Rob:

(https://dutchreview.com/wp-content/uploads/map-of-the-Netherlands-1.jpg)

But you're right, Gelderland and Limburg are so close it's hardly worthwhile to take the Panzerkampfwagen out of the bunker garage.
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: Basvarken on November 22, 2022, 03:19:48 PM: Quote from: uwe on November 22, 2022, 02:41:40 PM
Perhaps: "We unfortunately took your bikes, apologies for that, but we are now leaving a daughter in return?" What is the exact Dutch translation of that?

Hier is onze Wiedergutmachungsdochter.

Quote from: uwe on November 22, 2022, 03:05:03 PM
But you're right, Gelderland and Limburg are so close it's hardly worthwhile to take the Panzerkampfwagen out of the bunker garage.

We wouldn't even notice the difference with all the "kaffee und zigaretten tourists" that have been flooding the cities near the border.
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: uwe on November 22, 2022, 03:27:56 PM: "Hier is onze Wiedergutmachungsdochter."

Succinct! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: TBird1958 on November 22, 2022, 05:12:52 PM: Quote from: uwe on November 22, 2022, 03:05:03 PM
We need to educate the forum, Rob:

(https://dutchreview.com/wp-content/uploads/map-of-the-Netherlands-1.jpg)

But you're right, Gelderland and Limburg are so close it's hardly worthwhile to take the Panzerkampfwagen out of the bunker garage.

It can't be the size of Maine....... :P
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: OldManC on November 22, 2022, 06:12:27 PM: I can't remember if I changed my name there but when I joined I was 69'Vette and also joined (2002) looking for info on a Gibson bass I saw on eBay. After one post and all the info it got me, I was hooked.
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: uwe on November 22, 2022, 06:18:19 PM: I remember your names being XDresser and Nudeshot, weren't they?
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: uwe on November 22, 2022, 06:20:59 PM: Quote from: TBird1958 on November 22, 2022, 05:12:52 PM

It can't be the size of Maine....... :P

Size matters or what?!
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: gearHed289 on November 23, 2022, 08:06:02 AM: Well who rattled Uwe's cage? Is it holiday break in Deutschland already?
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: uwe on November 23, 2022, 08:45:20 AM: :mrgreen:

Ok, ok, I've settled down again already!
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: TBird1958 on November 23, 2022, 09:04:46 AM: Quote from: uwe on November 22, 2022, 06:20:59 PM
Size matters or what?!

You're talking about George here :-*

I've always been TBirs1958, I still remember the first time I posted a pic on the 'Pit :gay:
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: uwe on November 23, 2022, 12:30:44 PM: Quote from: TBird1958 on November 23, 2022, 09:04:46 AM
You're talking about George here :-*

On further reflection, yes.
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: Stjofön Big on November 23, 2022, 01:00:28 PM: Been hanging around since the Pit, yes. Though I'll turn 75 in a month I intend to hang around. See you!
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: Deathshead on November 24, 2022, 03:15:30 PM: Lots of Familliar names in here! feels good to be back in the mix.
Uwe, the Gibson master, Tbird1958, Bassvarken, OldmanC, a lot of the old crew.
I have been busy with life and havent been around lately but my kid is now playing and got me back into the guitar buying selling trading merry go around again WEE!
For those of you guys in the US Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: doombass on November 25, 2022, 06:42:29 AM: I landed at the Dudepit in 2002 after searching for info on my recently aquired Gibson EB-3.
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: OldManC on November 25, 2022, 12:00:45 PM: Quote from: uwe on November 22, 2022, 06:18:19 PM
I remember your names being XDresser and Nudeshot, weren't they?

:mrgreen:
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: Psycho Bass Guy on November 25, 2022, 07:00:33 PM: Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a f*** how crazy they are! :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: patman on November 26, 2022, 10:27:33 AM: I'm still Patman
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: slinkp on November 26, 2022, 01:36:27 PM: Quote from: Deathshead on November 21, 2022, 07:32:05 PM
Howdy folks. Anyone still around here from the Old days from the dudepit etc?

Been out of the mix for a while and trying to possibly track down a fee old basses sold around these parts. Used to go by the name Crimsonghost years ago.

Thanks

Crimsonghost rings a bell! I was around there starting about 2005 maybe? Like Uwe, I ended up on the pit because I was trying to learn more about Gibson basses as well. At the time I owned none, and now I own two (plus a Greco bird) so I guess I got what I was looking for and then some :)
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: ilan on November 29, 2022, 04:52:35 PM: I remember the name crimsonghost. I was ilan in the Pit, FDP, even The Bottom Line email digest before that.
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: Rob on November 30, 2022, 05:05:01 PM: I was I can't recall my name there I think I finally cjanged it to Rob Francis
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: uwe on November 30, 2022, 07:29:35 PM: I believe I was also "ze unknown kollectör" for a while.
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: Dave W on November 30, 2022, 11:42:01 PM: Quote from: uwe on November 30, 2022, 07:29:35 PM
I believe I was also "ze unknown kollectör" for a while.

You were, I think that was in the short-lived third edition of the Pit.
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: westen44 on December 01, 2022, 12:40:00 AM: I was on it briefly. Then it went out of existence. I don't remember what name I used. I do remember Uwe making a comment to me to the effect that I might want to consider switching to guitar if I wasn't going to be able to follow the suggestions he was making about Rippers. He was right, though. I was making some clueless statements. Of course the gist of it was switching to guitar was obviously the grimmest fate that could occur to someone. At least I think that was Uwe I was talking to.
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: uwe on December 01, 2022, 04:43:16 AM: Me??? :-[ I've never been a Ripper fan - that otherwise fine bass is let down by its lame pups (rectified in the much later reissue Ripper II via Seymour Duncans) -, but the guitar reference?

"Of course the gist of it was switching to guitar was obviously the grimmest fate that could occur to someone."

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: westen44 on December 01, 2022, 06:34:31 AM: Quote from: uwe on December 01, 2022, 04:43:16 AM
Me??? :-[ I've never been a Ripper fan - that otherwise fine bass is let down by its lame pups (rectified in the much later reissue Ripper II via Seymour Duncans) -, but the guitar reference?

"Of course the gist of it was switching to guitar was obviously the grimmest fate that could occur to someone."

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

I think it probably was you. I'm pretty sure. It turned into something amusing. Whether intentional or unintentional, I'm not sure.
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: ilan on December 01, 2022, 06:37:13 AM: Quote from: uwe on December 01, 2022, 04:43:16 AM
that otherwise fine bass is let down by its lame pups

Sums up my thoughts about pre-'72 EB-0/EB-3's.
Title: Re: Anyone still around from the Old Old dudepit days?
Post by: uwe on December 01, 2022, 09:42:41 AM: "I think it probably was you. I'm pretty sure."

I hear that a lot.

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