GlennGP, checking in

[GlennGP]

Just letting all you guys (and the odd gal) know that I haven't dropped off the face of the planet. I'm still about, and keeping an eye on things, but haven't had any time to build or contribute to conversations on the forum.

I am loving the 4D Guitars progress that I see on FB, and will be putting together a bass for the first time for a friend in the coming months, but my black-blue burst LP project is on hold for the time being, due to lack of man-caving space and finances. I'll get back there - I've done some experimental finishing work on a little amp stand I built recently, and I already own most of the specialist fittings, but I just can't get to the kit for a little while. I'll post the bass stuff, though. It's going to be very natural and basic, so mostly academic interest rather than anything exotic.

Anyhoo, hey-oh! all, and know that I'm still out here playing the Yellow Peril at steadily louder volumes as circumstances allow.

Cheers,

GGP

[dingobass]

Hey Glenn! Glad to hear from you :)

[adam]

Hey stranger, good to hear you're still around.

[lawry]

I had wondered about you GGP cos you went from regular posting to nought. Glad you're still there man.

[wokkaboy]

good to hear from you Glenn, glad you've still been reading the forum and have a project ready to start soon, you will enjoy building a bass. Which model you got in mind ?
Look forward to seeing it pop up in the build diaries

[WeirdBits]

Just when he thought he was out, we pulled him back in....

[lawry]

/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/Quote from WeirdBits on May 22, 2014, 01:48
Just when he thought he was out, we pulled him back in....



LOL. Yeah, it's like living on the event horizon. You might not be being pulled in but you can't get away either.

[keloooe]

Welcome back Glenn!

[stan]

Glad you are still about Glenn, you dont have to be doing a build to contribute - I am in the middle of my first one, and look at my number of posts!

[GlennGP]

Thanks guys, very heartening to be retained by the forum even in absentia.

The bass I'll be building is for the guy who basically goaded me into learning to play guitar properly. It'll be a standard P-bass in natural lacquer coats, for the record.

The story goes, he'd been the mainstay of one of the Dirty Dicks casts in Southern NSW for about 15 years, and I did a couple of amateur theatre shows with him, and one day he asked me if I knew anyone who played guitar, because they needed to cast someone new for the Dirty Dicks show. I said I really didn't, but would he like to join me at the family coast house for a weekend? So, the weekend rolled around and I picked up the residential nylon string by the fire one night and he looked at me all "you SAID you didn't know ANYONE who could play guitar", and I responded that I didn't consider what I did to be performance standard. He gave me another greasy eyeball and then basically auditioned me for the show by running me through some of the standards. Six years later I said goodbye to the cast.

So, we go back a ways and have a performance history, and he will love having an actual bass for the first time in for ever.

There. Now you all know a bit more about me and my sordid performance history!

GGP

[adam]

That's a great story Glenn, made me smile. And I haven't heard of "Dirty Dicks" for years.

[GlennGP]

Sweet Adam, glad I put a smile on your dial. :-)

[maxaxe]

Nice to hear you haven't really disappeared. Hope you can get back to building guitars soon . . .

[GlennGP]

For the record, doing "Dirty Dicks" was some of the most intense, furious, impromptu yet scripted playing I've ever done. You have around 20 songs that you know and have rehearsed, but three-quarters of the show depends on the audience interaction. You have to know the songs well enough to mold them around what's going on in the hall at the time - lots of "vamp till ready" stuff, but sometimes "it's looking ugly, cut to the end so we can get out of here". And it has to look seamless, either way, so that they don't demand their money back. You can't rely on the audience's cooperation, you have to nurture it.

I remember one night, out amongst them (with a radio mike and remote pack for the semi-acoustic) I found a bloke from Brazil and, as we did, we competed amongst the cast to find the audience member who had travelled the farthest to be there on the night. Well, the moment I found that bloke, who was not unattractive to the opposite sex, I waited for attention, made the bloke stand, and asked loudly "Which of you ladies would like a Brazilian?!" Uproar ensued. So proud, so proud. I pretty much rode the rest of the night on the value of that one-liner.

[wokkaboy]

yer great story Glenn, we had a Dirty Dicks show in Perth many years ago, run by Max Kay, is is a similar show you played in ?

[GlennGP]

It's licensed by a bloke who bought it from the originator, so I'd be surprised if the show you saw wasn't in some way authentic. There is a dedicated venue in Parramatta still, as well as two touring companies (NSW and Sthn Qld) and the seasonal ACT/Sthn NSW company I was a part of. The show doesn't get out West very often to my knowledge, but it does so periodically.