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Author Message lowave Junior Username: lowave Post Number: 12 Registered: 12-2005 Posted on Tuesday, March 07, 2006 - 10:49 am:    Seems like about once a month someone comments "hey Im from Portland too". So I think we should have Portland thread going. If you have a connection to Alembics and Portland in any way then drop a post here. Perhaps after a little while we can get together in person and congradulate each other on our impeccable tastes in musical equipment. Tom 5 Essence. gtrguy Junior Username: gtrguy Post Number: 45 Registered: 9-2004 Posted on Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 9:20 am:    I'm in. Dave from Portland. lbpesq Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 1073 Registered: 7-2004 Posted on Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 11:32 am:    "If you have a connection to Alembics and Portland in any way then drop a post here." Well, it ain't much, but here goes. The New Riders of the Purple Sage, (one of my favorite bands from *#@%^!$#! years ago), played Alembics. IIRC Marmaduke (John Dawson) played a series guitar and Dave Torbert played a series bass. One of my favorite songs of theirs was "Portland Woman". I had a couple of cases up in Portland a few years ago. I really liked the town. I forget the name, but you guys have a heckuva bookstore up there. Bill, tgo gtrguy Junior Username: gtrguy Post Number: 47 Registered: 9-2004 Posted on Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 1:07 pm:    Funny, I was just in Oakland 3 weeks ago. Bought a bass in Blue Note music in Berkeley. Toured Alembic then also. Powell's is the bookstore here. Dave lbpesq Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 1074 Registered: 7-2004 Posted on Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 10:52 pm:    Dave: Blue Note is a cool little store, sort of a safe harbor away from the GCs of this world. Bill, tgo jetbass79 Intermediate Member Username: jetbass79 Post Number: 111 Registered: 2-2005 Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 9:13 pm:    I'm in Portland too...my bass has been referred to as the "weird looking bass." gtrguy Member Username: gtrguy Post Number: 51 Registered: 9-2004 Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 10:38 am:    Cool, what is it? jetbass79 Intermediate Member Username: jetbass79 Post Number: 113 Registered: 2-2005 Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 3:58 pm:    It's a set neck balance K with Europa controls and a crown peghead. There's a picture of it somewhere in one of these forum folders...oddly enough I lost a lot of the pictures I had of it due to reformatting my hard drive...