Test , check , is this thing on

[morrow]

CanLoan was a program where Canada loaned Britain Jr officers , so Dad was in the British Gordon Highlanders , (sorry , I thought it was the Black Watch). He was wounded several times , and was in the ill fated air drop on Arnhem.
https://www.junobeach.org/farewell-charles-scot-brown-1923-2021/

He never spoke of the war until after visiting Holland. I was with him to Normandy for the 75 th Anniversary , and managed to get a pic of him standing with some German infantry in Normandy for a ceremony.

[uwe]

Ouch, A Bridge Too Far and (more than) a couple of Königstiger (fresh from the factory) and, of course, Hardy Krüger too near. Mental note: Listen to what Dutch Resistance tells you even if you are hell-bent for a major victory to show the Yanks where it's at.

[uwe]

And I got that right: Charles Scot-Brown was your dad then? Impressive.

[morrow]

My father’s father survived the trenches of the first War only to be killed by a random bomb in an English train station in WW2.
I’m the first Scot-Brown not to see service in generations , and my father approved. I went through a cadet camp one summer and that was enough.

[uwe]

That is stuff for a movie.

[morrow]

He arrived in Normandy about four hours after the initial landing, the area had not been “cleaned” so it was pretty gruesome. They formed up and headed off , a little while later they heard shots , and they were underway. I think it was the second or third day when they discovered an SS Panzer Division had moved in overnight and it was like hitting a brick wall. He was twenty.
Hard to imagine…

[morrow]

More noodling, still at the in-laws where I have a little nook to practice in. Dialed a little delay and reverb into that mini Darkglass amp and mini PJ speaker. Audio is just the mic in the tablet.
That little Jr is still a favourite bass, and I still keep rounds on it. I’m generally a flatwound guy. 

[Dave W]

That sounds great with rounds.

[morrow]

Those little Jrs are great little basses! And I’ve got a great little practice rig at the in-law’s. So it’s a comfortable place to noodle.