Alembic Guitars Club

Alembic products => Alembic Basses & Guitars => Topic started by: senmen on July 21, 2008, 11:46:42 AM

Title: Tears for John to be featured in new german bass magazine
Post by: senmen on July 21, 2008, 11:46:42 AM
Hi Folks,
well I have three news to share with you:
1. there is a new german bass magazine just beeing published
     named Bass Quarterly
2. I am now working for them as a freelancing author. I will
    do reviews on basses, amps and effects from the next issue    
    on. Also I am asked to build up a vintage bass column.
3.Tears for John will get a double-sided photo feature in the  
    next issue.  
 
Many greetings from a happy Spyderman
Oliver
Title: Tears for John to be featured in new german bass magazine
Post by: the_mule on July 21, 2008, 11:52:38 AM
Congrats Oliver, that's great news in more than one way! I wish you and the magazine much succes. Hopefully I'll be able to track the magazine down, but I think the chance isn't that great in The Netherlands.
 
Wilfred
Title: Tears for John to be featured in new german bass magazine
Post by: senmen on July 21, 2008, 11:58:43 AM
Wilfred,
well, if you don?t find one I could send you one then.
But Edwin was very interested in this, even in german language...
 
Oliver (Spyderman)
Title: Tears for John to be featured in new german bass magazine
Post by: artswork99 on July 21, 2008, 12:02:16 PM
Yes, Congratulations Oliver!
Nice new gig!
Wishing you the best.
Have FUN!
Art
Title: Tears for John to be featured in new german bass magazine
Post by: keavin on July 21, 2008, 02:19:52 PM
when you build your vintage bass column dont forget about my old#12 alembic, as well as the  other oldies in the club!............congrats as well!!!
Title: Tears for John to be featured in new german bass magazine
Post by: senmen on July 21, 2008, 02:28:02 PM
Hey Keavin,
this is a great idea!  Will come back to your offer....
Art,
many thanks for your good wishes......
 
Oliver (Spyderman)
Title: Tears for John to be featured in new german bass magazine
Post by: dadabass2001 on July 21, 2008, 04:47:44 PM
Boy, that sounds like a job made in heaven for you Oliver.
All the best and keep up the excellent work.
Mike
Title: Tears for John to be featured in new german bass magazine
Post by: ulf on July 22, 2008, 07:19:45 AM
Oliver,
as a german Alembic Fan (since I was 18 Years old an first listen to Stanley Clarke Songs and Sounds, this was 34 years ago) I look forward to read some storys about Alembic in Bass Quarterly.....
Title: Tears for John to be featured in new german bass magazine
Post by: senmen on July 22, 2008, 01:31:54 PM
Ulf,
as said before, the first one will be the article on my Alembic Dragon Wing Tears for John, coming in the next issue.
 
Oliver (Spyderman)
Title: Tears for John to be featured in new german bass magazine
Post by: keavin on July 23, 2008, 09:55:20 AM
Speaking of vintage basses?   http://www.vintageguitar.com/gallery/list.asp?catID=4 (http://www.vintageguitar.com/gallery/list.asp?catID=4)
Title: Tears for John to be featured in new german bass magazine
Post by: lbpesq on July 23, 2008, 10:33:12 AM
Wow, Keavin, there's three on that list that look JUST LIKE YOURS!!!!!!  What are the odds????  lol
 
Bill, tgo
Title: Tears for John to be featured in new german bass magazine
Post by: speicky on July 25, 2008, 02:52:58 PM
well, my guess is: one is from our club member Keavin, another is from our club member Serialnumber12... but I haven't got a clue about the third  
 
Great news, Oliver, it was a pleasure to talk to you and the guys at Fuerth Festival, I hope to be in Cologne in August, and get the first Bass Quarterly issue asap. My wife was mighty impressed when she held TFJ in her hands... boy, you helped spread the seeds, I owe you a beer or two, LOL !
 
all the best, to all of you,
your Christian
Title: Tears for John to be featured in new german bass magazine
Post by: senmen on July 25, 2008, 03:50:02 PM
Christian
of course I also have Peggy in my mind.
I am happy to have your wife inspired that it would be time
to give a another Alembic a new home.... :-)
 
Oliver (Spyderman)
Title: Tears for John to be featured in new german bass magazine
Post by: David Houck on August 02, 2008, 08:00:17 PM
Congrats Oliver!  If possible, I would love to see a picture of the magazine layout for TFJ.
Title: Tears for John to be featured in new german bass magazine
Post by: senmen on August 03, 2008, 02:34:56 AM
Dave,
of course will post the article here.
It will be published on September 3rd.
 
Oliver (Spyderman)
Title: Tears for John to be featured in new german bass magazine
Post by: speicky on September 09, 2008, 12:04:59 PM
WOW ! Bass Quarterly was delivered today, and it has a very cool double feature on Alembics...
 
not only that Oliver and TFJ are presented on two pages, but there is also a very nice test report of a Rogue 5, written by noone else but Klinkepeter. Great !
 
...please excuse me for the next few days
Title: Tears for John to be featured in new german bass magazine
Post by: keavin on October 27, 2008, 08:34:40 AM
Any new news senmen???
Title: Tears for John to be featured in new german bass magazine
Post by: senmen on October 27, 2008, 11:49:41 AM
Keavin,
oops, sorry, totally forgot about this.
Will try to scan the article....
 
Oliver (Spyderman)
Title: Tears for John to be featured in new german bass magazine
Post by: senmen on November 05, 2008, 12:42:49 PM
Guys,
I hope someone could help me with this.
I now have this file to upload of my article, but it is a PDF with a size of 18MB!
Anyone knows how I could make it to the size to put it up here?
Sorry, have not photoshop or so.
Oliver (Spyderman)
Title: Tears for John to be featured in new german bass magazine
Post by: 3rd_ray on November 05, 2008, 01:31:38 PM
Oliver, I know a little about computers and software, but not too much. It would probably help if you tell us what kind of computer you have. Do you use Microsoft Windows Xp? Vista? Mac?
 
If you use XP (and maybe Vista) you can try this... Open Windows Explorer and locate your PDF file. Right-click on the file and select Send To -> Compressed (zipped) Folder. I tried this on an 11MB PDF file, and it turned it into a little under 3MB. That's probably still too big to post here, but you should be able to email this file to a few people if you (and they) have a high-speed Internet connection.  
 
If you only have a few pages in the PDF file, another way using Windows is to make a JPEG of each page using the Paint software tool.  
 
Open the PDF so you can see the page.  
Then simultaneously press the Alt and Print Screen keyboard buttons.  
Then open the Paint software tool (Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Paint).
Then simultaneously press Ctrl and V. This will put a copy of the page in Paint.  
Then save it as a JPEG (File -> Save As  and select JPEG under Save as type)  
 
I hope that helps.  
 
Mike