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bracheen
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Username: bracheen

Post Number: 659
Registered: 11-2003
Posted on Monday, December 27, 2004 - 10:56 am:   Edit Post

One just never knows where an Alembic will show up. These photos are from the Black Oak Arkansas web site. The musician's name is Dave Cochran.



palembic
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Post Number: 1844
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Monday, December 27, 2004 - 11:42 am:   Edit Post

It's a funny model. It seems a Series I with a Standard point body but with an extended upper horn.
Are these pictures recent or old??

Paul the bad one
bracheen
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Post Number: 660
Registered: 11-2003
Posted on Monday, December 27, 2004 - 12:40 pm:   Edit Post

I think the show was in 2002 but I have no idea how old the bass is.

Sam
hollis
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Username: hollis

Post Number: 552
Registered: 11-2003
Posted on Monday, December 27, 2004 - 12:57 pm:   Edit Post

So THAT'S why they call him Mr. Fancy......

Thanks for the memory jog..... I haven't thought about those guys for longer then I care to admit..
dadabass2001
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Post Number: 305
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Monday, December 27, 2004 - 4:21 pm:   Edit Post

... Jim Dandy to the rescue...
... Jim Dandy to the rescue...

go Jim Dandy!

Mike
lbpesq
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Post Number: 214
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Monday, December 27, 2004 - 5:42 pm:   Edit Post

Didn't they have a female member with really big hair who looked like she just came over from the trailer park? (A VERY vague memory).

Bill, tgo
rraymond
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Post Number: 156
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Monday, December 27, 2004 - 6:37 pm:   Edit Post

If you look under Showcase -> Series 1 -> Ernie's Bubinga, you'll see another Series 1 with that body style. Ernie's is an '85.

Reid, oottpi

(One of those that posts infrequently)
richbass939
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Post Number: 75
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Monday, December 27, 2004 - 8:11 pm:   Edit Post

Bill TGO, yes, I think they did. Wasn't her name something like Cousin Ruby?
I'll dig out my 8 tracks and let you know. Just kidding. I think I threw them out. Sniff, sniff.
Rich
dadabass2001
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Post Number: 306
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Tuesday, December 28, 2004 - 5:03 am:   Edit Post

Ruby Starr was her name, oh

(Sorry , my granddaughter's 4th birthday party was last night.)
Mike

P.S. I saw Ruby touring with her band, "Grey Ghost" in Iowa in the 70s just before she hooked up with BOA (who I also saw at the University of Dubuque with Iron Butterfly with Pinera and Rhino in 1970.
palembic
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Post Number: 1845
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Tuesday, December 28, 2004 - 5:14 am:   Edit Post

Mike Pinera ? Alice Cooper band???
lbpesq
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Post Number: 215
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Tuesday, December 28, 2004 - 7:52 am:   Edit Post

Iron Butterfly?

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, baby!

Along with Ginger Baker & "Toad", the formative drum solos of my misspent youth.

Bill, tgo (& maybe soon to be drum one? - Got the wife a drum kit for x-mas).
bracheen
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Username: bracheen

Post Number: 663
Registered: 11-2003
Posted on Tuesday, December 28, 2004 - 8:48 am:   Edit Post

You're refering to the live Toad from Wheels of Fire, right? Brilliant! His solo from Blind Faith is good also. I have a cd of the Graham Bond Organization with Ginger & Jack. His solo on that has a lot of the elements from Toad predating Cream by a few years. Good stuff with Jack on the upright bass. I always wanted to be a drummer but couldn't get all four hands and feet doing different things at the same time.

Sam
marcm
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Post Number: 64
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Tuesday, December 28, 2004 - 9:44 am:   Edit Post

ginger was still doing great work, much more recently. if you haven't heard these discs already, consider checking out 'going back home' and 'falling off the roof', with bill frisell and charlie hayden. also delightful is 'coward of the county' by ginger and the denver jazz quintet, with a few guests that include the terrific james carter on bass clarinet & bari sax (cousin-instruments from the world of wind, for us bass-types!)

these cds are from the late '90s, after ginger had, in fact, fallen off the roof of his house and messed up his right (i think) shoulder


marc
bracheen
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Username: bracheen

Post Number: 664
Registered: 11-2003
Posted on Tuesday, December 28, 2004 - 10:50 am:   Edit Post

Two other recent recordings worth checking out are Masters of Reality's Riding on the Sufferbus (not sure of the spelling) and Public Image Limited's CD. Ginger proves he still has it on both.

Sam
lbpesq
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Post Number: 218
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Tuesday, December 28, 2004 - 11:26 am:   Edit Post

All this from a guy who already looked dead 30 years ago!

Here's to Ginger Baker, the only musician who makes Keith Richards look downright healthy!

Bill, tgo
richbass939
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Post Number: 76
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Tuesday, December 28, 2004 - 5:33 pm:   Edit Post

Speaking of Ginger Baker, et al, I half-heard on the radio a few days ago that Cream (all 3 of course) is doing a tour in 2005. I haven't verified this but that's what I think I heard.
Rich
davehouck
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Post Number: 1128
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Tuesday, December 28, 2004 - 5:56 pm:   Edit Post

http://www.whereseric.com/clapton/news/2004/12/cream_reunion_its_official.htm
bracheen
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Username: bracheen

Post Number: 665
Registered: 11-2003
Posted on Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - 3:01 am:   Edit Post

OK, I'm at work, I can't be jumping up and down going wooo hoooo! Calm down take a deep breath.

On reading the article it would seem the chances of them playing anywhere near me would be remote. Durn!
palembic
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Username: palembic

Post Number: 1847
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - 6:11 am:   Edit Post

Ok ...if you saw my little story in the 'bass giants' thead you'll understand I'm wooo-hoo-ing and jumping up and down since than.
I will not be qble to make Albert Hall but since there will be DVD ...

the wooo-hoo-ing goes on!!!

Paul the bad one
davehouck
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Post Number: 1135
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - 6:20 am:   Edit Post

Yes, the DVD could be interesting!
bracheen
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Post Number: 666
Registered: 11-2003
Posted on Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - 9:06 am:   Edit Post

I'm sure the DVD will be very good but to see them live, that would be great. I've seen EC and GB seperatly. I've not had the pleasure of seeing Jack live. I don't know if there is a Cream version of the "Dead Head" but if there is that would be me.
palembic
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Username: palembic

Post Number: 1848
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - 9:38 am:   Edit Post

Brother Sam ...count me in ...that make two "Cream Heads" ...or is "Cream Toppings" better.

Paul the bad one

or "Cream Feets"??? Or "Cream Scream"s???
the_mule
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Post Number: 378
Registered: 1-2004
Posted on Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - 10:08 am:   Edit Post

Sam, that would be the 1993 Masters of Reality recording called 'Sunrise on the Sufferbus'. It's one of my favourite rock albums of all time. Highly recommended, and not only because of Ginger's excellent drumming!

Wilfred
bigredbass
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Username: bigredbass

Post Number: 358
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Friday, January 14, 2005 - 11:31 pm:   Edit Post

Well here's where I drive it off into the ditch:

I can't stand Jack Bruce ! ! !

There, I said it. I can't believe Eric's gonna let himself in for this misery, but I can believe easily that it took him thirty years and sobriety to get over it where he can play with these 2 clowns again. I just hope he doesn't need to check himself in at Crossroads after these four gigs. Boy is he gonna miss Nate and Steve Ferrone !

OK, let me have it . . . .

J o e y
palembic
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Username: palembic

Post Number: 1880
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Saturday, January 15, 2005 - 12:50 am:   Edit Post

Brother Joey ...
why should we???
It's your opnion.
I ithink that -in it's time "wrap"- Cream was for me amazing and the show in London COULD be special for me I think. To revive good memories, but when you talk the Nathan /Eric combination I completeley agree ...in THIS time "wrap".
I am reluctant to compare in time.
BTW it's why I said that the concert COULD be interesting. I can only hope they add something new to what was.

Paul TBO


Mmmmm ...I don't know if I gave it to you now??
richbass939
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Username: richbass939

Post Number: 97
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Saturday, January 15, 2005 - 5:31 am:   Edit Post

I have to get a good laugh in here. I can't think of a time I saw someone get blasted (well a both-barrels blast, anyway) here that didn't deserve it. Joey, having an opinion doesn't warrant a blast. I doubt any one of the three is so poor that they had to do a buck-raising gig. Maybe they're doing it for the fans. You know, giving us geezers one more nostangic thrill before we croak. Pure speculation here, but maybe they liked being on stage together but couldn't stand the tour bus. Four nights in the same venue might not be too bad.
Rich
bracheen
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Username: bracheen

Post Number: 690
Registered: 11-2003
Posted on Saturday, January 15, 2005 - 7:10 am:   Edit Post

Come on Joey, don't hold back, tell us what you really think.

I've always suspected there were musical tastes out there other than mine, odd as that may seem.:-) That's what makes the world go 'round.

Sam
exploiterplayer
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Username: exploiterplayer

Post Number: 44
Registered: 12-2002
Posted on Friday, May 06, 2005 - 8:06 am:   Edit Post

Well Cream was a great group and I'm glad to see a reunion but I have to laugh when I think back to the infamous on stage fist fight between Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker. I hope they are all grown up now.

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