Okay you guys, I have gotten a mail by Uwe stating that there have been complaints about some posting I made in reply to several threads.
Thing is that it's difficult to express words when typing them down, you have to be very to the point, you can't use pitch or a questioning tone like you would when during a normal spoken conversation. Like for example during my thread about Paul McCartney's bass lesson where I figured that Macca wasn't using his famous Hofner because the taped on set list was gone. When Ilan corrected me I went "Oh really, I guess that he came back on his word" which was meant as to tell him that I didn't know about that and since Ilan held the instrument in question I knew he was right. As a token of good will I posted two links to two very respectable sites about Macca's 63 Hofner where the most recently happened removal of the set list wasn't mentioned because of both sides not being updated for a while. I then stated that one of the sites said that Macca's bass probably received a re-finish since the color became darker over a short period of time Ilan actually supported the idea after reading the thing himself and recalling that when he held the bass it showed traces of a refinish.
Unfortunately Dave saw my reply to Ilan's post as an attempt to correct him and to school him about things I have no knowledge about since I didn't see and never held the actual bass in my hands when Ilan in fact has, and that I had the nerve to even include links to prove Ilan wrong. I'm sorry Dave if you saw it that way but it was NEVER my intention to come across a wise guy here.
The Dick Dale thing is another one. I was paraphrasing what I learned from reading and seeing, over the years, Dick Dale's disease was mentioned frequently on shows about early Rock N Roll and in interview with people who worked with Dick over the years. The Jimi hendrix dedication of "Third stone from the sun" also was one of those things, I heard that so many times in documentaries about Hendrix even from the mouth of the late great Mitch Mitchell. I just assumed that it must be the truth.
Again, it's so difficult to express one's words by typing them down, you can't adjust your voice a little to sound either sarcastically, or inquisitive. I have learned a lot about Rock and the history of music and I know that I don't know everything. But it was NEVER my intention to come across as someone who's insensitive, a wise guy, a trouble maker or clueless.
So to get this off my chest, Dave, Ilan and everybody I failed to mention, I'm sorry.
Sincerely, Wouter Jaegers
