That’s interesting. Do you play real bass or just bass guitar ?
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I read someone wishing Rob Hirst all the best over the weekend, but no context was given (and I couldn’t find anything further). This would explain it.
Sad… that iteration of the big C is no good (not that any of them are really…)
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Do you play real bass or just bass guitar
Mate, Bassists don’t differentiate. We all worship at the same alter of 4 heavy strings. Besides, I grew up in Oak Park- not to many double basses floating around there. But at least a few electric ones.
And Rob Hirst- that’s really s*&t news.
Can you play the Bass line to Khruangbin’s song ‘August 10’ ?
I’m guessing it’s reasonably easy.
TIMESTAMP 7.00 min mark
Yes, it is shyte news. Pancreatic is about the worst form of cancer: it doesn’t show itself until it’s too late to fix it.
My regular bassman plays bass guitar in a country blues band and double bass in my band.
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I think it was on his first tour of Australia in the early 1970s that John Mayall had an upright bass player, by the name of Putter Smith. Fast forward a couple of years and l end up in New Dehli watching Connery as Bond in Diamonds Are Forever for 50 cents. Who do l spy as one of the 2 killers who try to off James and Jill St. John? None other than the aforementioned Putter Smith. I never heard of him again after that.
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Putter’s still going strong at 84. Check out his Wikipedia biography. He’s played bass with just about all the top jazz musicians of his day.
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That is a great, anchoring riff. Not too technical- but sounds great with the drum/guitar. Gotta say, I love her tone
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Geez, that guy got around.
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I have a good Mate who is a close friend of Rob Hirst, and he speaks highly of him.
Pancreatic cancer is a horror, both of Mrs Fox’s parents died from it, and they think the causal link was that her Dad was a house painter in the days of lead in paint and her Mum washed the clothes.
Very low survival rate and once detected few survive longer than six months. Also numbers worldwide dying from it are rising every year. You can live without a pancreas though you have to take lots of drugs. Not sure why they just don’t cut it out, maybe a BBlitzer knows !
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I’ll have a guess that if there are no metastases, then removing the pancreas might improve prognosis. But if there are metastases, removing the pancreas is just closing the gate after the horse has bolted.
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Probably, and I guess that in the cases of my InLaws, diagnosis was very late for both of them. In fact, they first treated her Dad for hepatitis, and because he died of pancreatic cancer they didn’t suspect it for her Mum, as the view seemed to be that the odds of Partner getting it were too rare. Actually the Doctors were hopeless in working out what the ailment was.
The Pope just passed away
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PAPA GONESKI
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Let’s face it he saw Watson play for a free and shank it from 15m out and that was the final straw
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I laughed out loud for that one way more than I should of
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Oh dear. What a shame. Never mind.
Thoughts and whatever…
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Had the pleasure of meeting the Pope at a charity do once. He was surprisingly down to earth, and VERY funny.
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Did you show him some of your pr0n?