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Title: Asheville Mini-Meetup 02/16/19
Post by: David Houck on February 17, 2019, 02:56:33 PM: Subsequent to his long period of recovery from his medical procedure, Gregory set out on a trip to visit friends and family, and decided to take a detour to visit us in Asheville for lunch and a little time to play and talk about Alembics.

He brought his Martin and started in on some of the songs he knows (he sings really well), but I couldn't keep up with him; so he graciously played along on some simple chord progressions that I came up with.

When we were both playing our Alembics, we got into some Grateful Dead type improvisations that were pretty nice.

Here's some photographic evidence of the event:
Title: Re: Asheville Mini-Meetup 02/16/19
Post by: rv_bass on February 17, 2019, 04:19:04 PM: Very nice! Glad Greg is up and about and you guys got to jam. All beautiful instruments, but I gravitate towards the 70s Series I. :)
Title: Re: Asheville Mini-Meetup 02/16/19
Post by: edwardofhuncote on February 17, 2019, 04:49:27 PM: The whirlwind tour of North Carolina is complete - I just got back home a little bit ago! Yes indeed, I finally got to visit Dave in the quaint setting of Bens Cove, not too different from Masons Cove here in Virginia. ;D

Don't let Moderator Dave be to modest here... he's a MONSTER bassist and I had a blast just experiencing someone else's vision of music for an afternoon. It was a very natural fit acoustically with just my old D-18. Also took along my very first Alembic, Persuader 5-string #89P5559, which came my way 5 years ago this-coming Spring. Told Dave, that's the one that started it all for me! I had a great time handing instruments back and forth all afternoon, and a delicious lunch too before heading East to visit some other friends and family today. (I'm the living embodiment of the Merle Travis tune "Kinfolks in Carolina") ;D

Hope to make it a regular event. :)
Title: Re: Asheville Mini-Meetup 02/16/19
Post by: elwoodblue on February 17, 2019, 05:11:53 PM: Thanks for the stories and pics guys.
Wish I was closer so I could partake.

Greg, did you play Daves six string ?
:)
Title: Re: Asheville Mini-Meetup 02/16/19
Post by: edwardofhuncote on February 17, 2019, 06:31:34 PM: I did get to spend some quality time playing "Karma"... that is a remarkable instrument, and the way it's Series II output is run through a sound processor and various modeling capabilities, there's just not much it can't do, sonically. Listening to her while sitting between a pair of Bag End speaker cabinets is quite heavenly.
Title: Re: Asheville Mini-Meetup 02/16/19
Post by: pauldo on February 18, 2019, 07:44:28 AM: Quote from: edwardofhuncote on February 17, 2019, 06:31:34 PM
I did get to spend some quality time playing "Karma"... that is a remarkable instrument, and the way it's Series II output is run through a sound processor and various modeling capabilities, there's just not much it can't do, sonically. Listening to her while sitting between a pair of Bag End speaker cabinets is quite heavenly.

An envious tale that you tell! :D

Thanks both for sharing.
Title: Re: Asheville Mini-Meetup 02/16/19
Post by: sonicus on February 18, 2019, 11:37:54 PM: I am happy that you were all able to do this !
Title: Re: Asheville Mini-Meetup 02/16/19
Post by: StephenR on February 19, 2019, 10:59:02 AM: Could have sworn I posted in this thread yesterday... weird!

While the official CA Alembic gathering is always a great time a local mini-meetup is the next best thing. So many truly nice people here in the club and always a pleasure to meet and hang with them! Thanks for sharing your day together with us...
Title: Re: Asheville Mini-Meetup 02/16/19
Post by: goran on February 19, 2019, 12:08:46 PM: Nice to see you guys, David I love that 6 string... beautiful bass