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Title: Oops and airline broke my bass..!!!
Post by: jazzyvee on August 27, 2009, 11:50:41 PM
 
 
(Message edited by jazzyvee on August 27, 2009)
Title: Oops and airline broke my bass..!!!
Post by: jazzyvee on August 27, 2009, 11:58:05 PM
This picture of Stanley Clarke with a bass broken by an airline on David Dyson's facebook album, Capitol Jazz Fest 2009...
 

(http://alembic.com/club/messages/449/69437.jpg)
 
 
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30209457&id=1213380296#/photo.php?pid=30209461&id=1213380296 (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30209457&id=1213380296#/photo.php?pid=30209461&id=1213380296)
 
 
Full picture

(http://alembic.com/club/messages/449/69438.jpg)
 
 
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30209457&id=1213380296#/photo.php?pid=30209462&id=1213380296 (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30209457&id=1213380296#/photo.php?pid=30209462&id=1213380296)
Maybe he could write a ditty like that country singer David Carroll did about United airlines but a bit funkier.
 
jazzyvee
Title: Oops and airline broke my bass..!!!
Post by: terryc on August 28, 2009, 02:11:47 AM
Was it his really old one that he uses?? it looks fairly new.
Airlines..when I brought my MK from New York 11 years ago I was positively shitting myself that it would come back intact..even though there were a load of 'fragile' stickers on it.
Title: Oops and airline broke my bass..!!!
Post by: David Houck on August 28, 2009, 11:25:10 AM
Wow!  Does the article give any details on how the bass was broken?
Title: Oops and airline broke my bass..!!!
Post by: jazzyvee on August 28, 2009, 11:47:36 AM
I wondered if it was his old one but on Stanley'shis web site it says ... On the road he is using a Spellbinder Upright Contrebasse, a copy of Stanley's main upright used at home, a 120-year old German flatback acoustic, which sports a Fishman BP-100-bridge mounted pickup.
 
So I guess its  a new one and not the German one.
Dave, the page doesn't say how the bass was broken or any other details just that it was broken by the airline.
 
Jazzyvee