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jazzyvee
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Username: jazzyvee

Post Number: 1627
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 11:50 pm:   Edit Post



(Message edited by jazzyvee on August 27, 2009)
jazzyvee
Senior Member
Username: jazzyvee

Post Number: 1628
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 11:58 pm:   Edit Post

This picture of Stanley Clarke with a bass broken by an airline on David Dyson's facebook album, Capitol Jazz Fest 2009...



http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30209457&id=1213380296#/photo.php?pid=30209461&id=1213380296


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http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30209457&id=1213380296#/photo.php?pid=30209462&id=1213380296
Maybe he could write a ditty like that country singer David Carroll did about United airlines but a bit funkier.

jazzyvee
terryc
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Username: terryc

Post Number: 1023
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Friday, August 28, 2009 - 2:11 am:   Edit Post

Was it his really old one that he uses?? it looks fairly new.
Airlines..when I brought my MK from New York 11 years ago I was positively shitting myself that it would come back intact..even though there were a load of 'fragile' stickers on it.
davehouck
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Username: davehouck

Post Number: 8657
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Friday, August 28, 2009 - 11:25 am:   Edit Post

Wow! Does the article give any details on how the bass was broken?
jazzyvee
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Username: jazzyvee

Post Number: 1629
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Friday, August 28, 2009 - 11:47 am:   Edit Post

I wondered if it was his old one but on Stanley'shis web site it says "... On the road he is using a Spellbinder Upright Contrebasse, a copy of Stanley's main upright used at home, a 120-year old German flatback acoustic, which sports a Fishman BP-100-bridge mounted pickup".

So I guess its a new one and not the German one.
Dave, the page doesn't say how the bass was broken or any other details just that it was broken by the airline.

Jazzyvee

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