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georgie_boy
Senior Member Username: georgie_boy
Post Number: 454 Registered: 8-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 9:40 am: | |
Well, As you all no doubt know by now, we had a great time at the PINES in my home town of DENNY in Stirlingshire Scotland. Seems though, that after we had packed up and gone home,some Geek decided to pour Gasoline through the mail box in the bar and torched the place!! Result----Next day, Police incident tape everywhere, and the bar shut down. It's still closed as I write, so don't know the extent of the damage as yet. I was speaking to one of the locals today, and he said that a neighbour had finally flipped! Seems Police are looking for 2 guys--One named JACKO and the other MP. Seems that this JACKO character and his sidekick MP had been experimenting with something called a huge EBS rig, and got the volume control set to a level unheard of even on the Richter scale. This apparently caused some consternation with the local "Tribespeople" that resulted in the aforementioned incident. Police are anxious to speak to a small fat, bald gnome who was seen sneaking away from the premises at an uncertain hour. The FIRE really took place!! George |
jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko
Post Number: 1725 Registered: 10-2002
| Posted on Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 11:25 am: | |
Jeez george, that's a real shame.:-( Hope they get the place put back together quickly. Graeme |
olieoliver
Senior Member Username: olieoliver
Post Number: 1829 Registered: 2-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 11:32 am: | |
WOW, if I were you guys I'd be concerned about the safety of my instruments. In fact, how 'bout you ship them to my house for safe keeping. OO |
jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko
Post Number: 1726 Registered: 10-2002
| Posted on Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 12:38 am: | |
To paraphrase the movies..."no alembics were harmed in the burning of this public house". We were all well out of town by the time this incident took place. Honest officer. Graeme |
georgie_boy
Senior Member Username: georgie_boy
Post Number: 458 Registered: 8-2005
| Posted on Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 5:57 am: | |
Graeme, I laughed so much at your reply there!! It IS a shame when drink gets the better of some people though;it just leads to violence and destruction for no good reason. Seems the "gnome" in question can't be found, but rumour has it that he is a Senior member of some American club. He may never be found. Best do what Olie says I think, and send all these beauties to his house for safe keeping Gnome--------OOOPS I mean george |
georgie_boy
Senior Member Username: georgie_boy
Post Number: 465 Registered: 8-2005
| Posted on Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 10:22 am: | |
Seems now, that someone was on the roof of the building during the night, and pored petrol through the vents of the pub. I used to leave my gear there overnight!!---------but not the "Big Fella" Still waiting for further reports. G |
georgie_boy
Senior Member Username: georgie_boy
Post Number: 466 Registered: 8-2005
| Posted on Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 10:23 am: | |
Seems now, that someone was on the roof of the building during the night, and poured petrol through the vents of the pub. I used to leave my gear there overnight!!---------but not the "Big Fella" Still waiting for further reports. G |
georgie_boy
Senior Member Username: georgie_boy
Post Number: 467 Registered: 8-2005
| Posted on Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 10:28 am: | |
Sorry for th double post guys! I'm just trying to correct the odd spelling mistake---but as uoosooall make a kompleeet piggs eeer off it I think the fault rests in the keyboard---------It can't spell a single word right Need to change it I think------unless someone can suggest an update G |
davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck
Post Number: 6472 Registered: 5-2002
| Posted on Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 6:03 pm: | |
Try changing the order of the keys. |
speicky
Advanced Member Username: speicky
Post Number: 274 Registered: 3-2005
| Posted on Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 3:52 am: | |
or just turn it around ??? |
georgie_boy
Senior Member Username: georgie_boy
Post Number: 469 Registered: 8-2005
| Posted on Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 3:58 am: | |
Thanks for the advice David & Christian I gave the keyboard a direct order and it just ignored me. I told it to spell every word correctly and it just made a laughing sound. Even turning round didn't help; it still laughed at my pathetic attempts to be a human being G |
davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck
Post Number: 6473 Registered: 5-2002
| Posted on Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 6:28 pm: | |
George; I'm guessing that you hit the post button, then noticed the mistake, corrected it, and hit the post button again. A valiant attempt. But just in case you didn't know, and for those of you who may not have noticed, in the upper right hand corner of your post is a little icon that looks like a piece of paper and a pencil. For a short period of time (72 hours) after you first post the message, you can click on that icon and edit your message. I use it frequently to correct my own spelling errors and typos. |
speicky
Advanced Member Username: speicky
Post Number: 370 Registered: 3-2005
| Posted on Monday, May 25, 2009 - 11:26 am: | |
from time to time, I randomly read old threads that attracted me in the past... now, this is one of my all-time-favourites thank you George, for your excellent report, and thanks to you other folks for your contributions. has this little gnome even been found and jailed ? what about those Jacko and MP characters ? questions, questions, questions.... |
serialnumber12
Senior Member Username: serialnumber12
Post Number: 425 Registered: 12-2004
| Posted on Monday, May 25, 2009 - 11:33 am: | |
sounds like the lyrics of "smoke on the water".......'some stupid with a flair gun burned the place to the ground'!... |
davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck
Post Number: 8121 Registered: 5-2002
| Posted on Monday, May 25, 2009 - 11:47 am: | |
I cool thread indeed Christian; thanks! |
john_judge
Junior Username: john_judge
Post Number: 46 Registered: 4-2009
| Posted on Monday, May 25, 2009 - 1:58 pm: | |
DARN! I should of made this gathering to Scottland I specialize in buring down old Pubs...but I don't use gas, just Low frequencies and Big A#$ rigs to get the tinder hot. nothing like a lot of volume to get thinks burning! |
georgie_boy
Senior Member Username: georgie_boy
Post Number: 765 Registered: 8-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 - 4:20 am: | |
Check out the "Scottish gathering..the aftermath" to see pics of the event. It was great for only 3 guys! The little gnome has never been found............I managed.........oops.I mean HE managed to get home without any trouble, and the pub was intact when I/he left! You guys would have been made MORE than welcome. Jacko and MP are still members of a Santa Rosa bass forum. You can see their ugly mushes on the link mentioned above.......even the gnome was photographed!...although at one point , it seems as if he was chewing a wasp. John.you would have blown the pub up with Graeme's (Jacko) EBS rig!! |
georgie_boy
Senior Member Username: georgie_boy
Post Number: 1038 Registered: 8-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 3:52 am: | |
The bar in question, "THE PINES" is now a mini-mart!!!???? |
olieoliver
Senior Member Username: olieoliver
Post Number: 2716 Registered: 2-2006
| Posted on Sunday, March 18, 2012 - 3:30 am: | |
You must've have drank them dry George. LOL OO |