Author Topic: Switched off (Read 424 times)

palembic · « **on:** August 07, 2004, 06:35:33 AM »

Bros & Sis

I am off for a short holiday to Nice (my daughter would go on university there so ...we combine something). With the whole family in a big tent. I can do some outside cooking. I gave my Yamaha FG 580 a set of new strings, took my busker books and ...off we go. Maybe U should try to do some singing on the beach for some beer-money???
See you later kids!!

Paul the bad one

the_mule · « **Reply #1 on:** August 08, 2004, 01:17:53 AM »

Paul, veel plezier! Enjoy!

Wilfred

pookeymp · « **Reply #2 on:** August 09, 2004, 06:37:17 AM »

Have a safe and fun trip Brother Paul...and will catch up with you when you return.

Mikey/

dean_m · « **Reply #3 on:** August 13, 2004, 06:58:21 AM »

Just when I get back Brother Paul takes a holiday. How dare he.....

HA!!!!!

Hope you have a wonderful holiday Paul. See you when you get back.

palembic · « **Reply #4 on:** August 21, 2004, 06:23:54 AM »

I'm back -I'm back - I'm back ...huh boys and girls what happened ...what happened? Tell me the weird stories? Dino are you still playing bass and now endorsing Yajuzibawa's??? MIca is there progress in the Rami bass soap?? Did you finally made a bass wirth a maple neck?? Is Sam found drunk after his firstr step on stage again? Did Brother Joey finally decided to show us his BigRedBass??? Did Brother Bob left on his trip around the world in 80 days on board of the Mari Cha IV???
Did Brother Paul the good one finally decided to join us again so we can use his head as a practice amp again or did he fell off the stagve trying to leapfrog his bass in his neck over the floor-monitor system (you need a Looooooo-ong cable for that Paul). Brother Michael did you found another Alembic-fossile the last 2 weeks???
Anyway tell me about it ...oh ...huhuh ...I'll found out anyway.

Paul the bad one

PS: we found a modest appartment for my daughter and her boyfriend in Nice for the next year. Before theyt marry they will try to do some practicing in livinbg together. Quite a good idea I think. Although now I hear there is a (girl)friend of my daughter ALSO coming to study in Nice. Oh ..huhuh ... I never realised they going to start practicing to live in threesome ...o-o.

dadabass2001 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 21, 2004, 06:29:26 AM »

These kids today .....

Ya wash 'em and you can't do a thing with them.

Welcome back Paul (TBO)
Mike

bracheen · « **Reply #6 on:** August 22, 2004, 06:05:12 PM »

Paul! Welcome home Bro! Funny you should ask, I did just get home from the pub. I spent the weekend in Boca Raton Florida and couldn't find a Guinness for love or money!

Sam

dean_m · « **Reply #7 on:** August 23, 2004, 07:40:31 AM »

Brother Paul,

Welcome back!!!! I trust you had a great holiday!?! I am a firm believer of living together first. Although I might have second thoughts when my daughters are old enough.
Yes I am still playing bass too and I'm still playing my Alembics and Warwicks. Some things will never change....

Talk soon.

Dino bptfo

palembic · « **Reply #8 on:** August 23, 2004, 07:57:07 AM »

My good friend and brother Dino,

when you take a rest of mowing the lawn, and look over the rim of your glass iced Ouzo at your children playing give the words of the Indian writer Kahlil Gibran some thoughts: You are the bow, they are the arrows, you can only aim before giving birth to them, than you have to let go.

Paul TBO

...and I added to that myself : but you can go keep on yelling some advice from behind and maybe ...just maybe ...they hear it ...and even more maybe ...they listen ...from time to time.

dean_m · « **Reply #9 on:** August 25, 2004, 05:14:47 PM »

Ahhhh,

Wonderful words of advise once again from Uncle Paul!!!! It is so true though isn't it?
Hearing and listening are two completely different things when it comes to kids huh???

Talk soon,

Dino bptfo

David Houck · « **Reply #10 on:** August 27, 2004, 11:39:26 AM »

Paul; a correction.

Kahlil Gibran was born, and spent his early childhood, in what is now Lebanon; but lived most of his life in the United States. He was not Indian. I suppose he could be considered a Lebanese-American or perhaps a Syrian-American; but primarily a wonderful writer and great spirit.

http://www.kahlil.org/bio.html

palembic · « **Reply #11 on:** August 27, 2004, 12:30:39 PM »

Brother Dave,

we really should meet once!
You are my source of better knowledge and correct information. As always I siad the things on the right moment but not the right things ...well ...sort off.
Thanks buddy!!!

Paul TBO

David Houck · « **Reply #12 on:** August 27, 2004, 02:12:15 PM »

Paul; your welcome! I don't remember much, but the Holy Cedars of Lebanon is a phrase that has stuck with me since I read Gibran in the 70's. Hmmm ... an Alembic with a Lebanese Cedar top!

palembic · « **Reply #13 on:** August 27, 2004, 03:40:13 PM »

Well ...a lebanese cedar top? I really don't know LEbanese cedar. But, since MIca signaled that OLIVEwood could make a great bass-top only ...that there are no Olivetrees in US available grwoning big enough to have slabs of wood out of it to make a bass-top, I spend -even in my holidays to the south of France- asking people for big slabs of Olive wood. My brother in law works for a carpenter company and he SAID -said...nothing confirmed yet- that he knows a company down south who has them.
Well ...I hope I can surprise Mica one day with a nice peice of Olivewood. I Let her look for a client, it's out of my league anyway.

Paul TBO

adriaan · « **Reply #14 on:** August 28, 2004, 08:21:34 AM »

I'm no bible buff, but the cedars of Lebanon get mentioned a few times. When someone mentioned Lebanon, they would mention the cedars as well. Call it a clich?, but it's a topos.

Cedar wood smells really nice - unlike zebrawood. They make cigar boxes out of it.

(Message edited by adriaan on August 28, 2004)