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Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:16 pm
by eggwheat
Cool pics! Never seen these before!

Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:37 pm
by PorkyPrimeCut
Ahahah & Fall Reverb. I've just been reading up on this thread. Great stuff. You guys could write a book.

I've a great old friend back home who had a little box room at his folks house when he was growing up. It was plastered in The Cure posters, calendars, NME, Sounds & Melody Maker snippets. All sorts. He's got pretty much every LP, EP, 7" & picture disc you can get of the Cure. He's the guy who introduced me to the Bass VI. He'd love this thread.

P.S - He even had the hairdo back then. 2 fucking hours & 2 cans of hair-spray before he was ready

Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:52 pm
by StevenO
PorkyPrimeCut wrote: He even had the hairdo back then. 2 fucking hours & 2 cans of hair-spray before he was ready
And the reason for global warming has been found.


Does anyone still want the cure articles?

Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 4:13 pm
by Fall reverb
StevenO wrote: Does anyone still want the cure articles?
If it's not too much trouble for you to scan the article and post it here - yes, please! :)

Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:05 pm
by PorkyPrimeCut
StevenO wrote: And the reason for global warming has been found.
:D

Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:30 am
by Ahahah
PorkyPrimeCut wrote: Ahahah & Fall Reverb. I've just been reading up on this thread. Great stuff. You guys could write a book.
Ahahah ! (This is my name and the expression of a state of joy too...). Thanks. I'll think about it ;-)
PorkyPrimeCut wrote: I've a great old friend back home who had a little box room at his folks house when he was growing up. It was plastered in The Cure posters, calendars, NME, Sounds & Melody Maker snippets. All sorts. He's got pretty much every LP, EP, 7" & picture disc you can get of the Cure. He's the guy who introduced me to the Bass VI. He'd love this thread.
How can you talk about me without knowing me ?  :D
Anyway, I left the posters and calendars to others, but I've an (almost) complete discography. Don't collect anymore though (I've got all the stuff I was interested in, go figure why I haven't bought their latest singles...)
PorkyPrimeCut wrote:P.S - He even had the hairdo back then. 2 fucking hours & 2 cans of hair-spray before he was ready
And how is your hair now ?  :D

Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:37 am
by PorkyPrimeCut
I was talking about an old friend, not myself.

His hair? He started going bald when he was 19-20 so he shaved it all off!!  :D

My hair? Still going strong!!

Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:58 am
by Ahahah
PorkyPrimeCut wrote: I was talking about an old friend, not myself.

His hair? He started going bald when he was 19-20 so he shaved it all off!!  :D

My hair? Still going strong!!
Happy for your hair  :D
And sorry for the misunderstanding...

Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:18 am
by scottme
This thread is threatening to rival the "Show us a pic of you and your Offsets" thread.

Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:21 am
by Ahahah
scottme wrote: This thread is threatening to rival the "Show us a pic of you and your Offsets" thread.
"Bob, can you show us your JMs, please ?"

The worst in the story is that we could do exactly the same with his various Bass VI (he for sure has far more VIs than JMs).  ;D

Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:29 am
by Fall reverb
Ahahah wrote:
scottme wrote: This thread is threatening to rival the "Show us a pic of you and your Offsets" thread.
"Bob, can you show us your JMs, please ?"

The worst in the story is that we could do exactly the same with his various Bass VI (he for sure has far more VIs than JMs).  ;D
Don't get me started then... :D

Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:43 am
by Ahahah
Fall reverb wrote: Don't get me started then... :D
Could be funny though...
This is an interesting subject and just speaking about it makes me little shaky...  ;D

Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:03 am
by Fall reverb
Ahahah wrote: Could be funny though...
This is an interesting subject and just speaking about it makes me little shaky...  ;D
Well, why don't we simply start a new thread & try to establish how many Bass VI's Mr. Smith actually had/has, based on the same sources we used in this thread - that would indeed be interesting, I think...

P.S. - so what's our verdict on his Jazzmasters? Did he really in all likelihood only have 2, if we would dismiss the statement as probably not true from the article that StevenO kindly posted?

Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:09 am
by Ahahah
Fall reverb wrote: Well, why don't we simply start a new thread & try to establish how many Bass VI's Mr. Smith actually had/has, based on the same sources we used in this thread - that would indeed be interesting, I think...
As we say : English friends, shoot first...  ;)(I'm not English).
Fall reverb wrote:P.S. - so what's our verdict on his Jazzmasters? Did he really in all likelihood only have 2, if we would dismiss the statement as probably not true from the article that StevenO kindly posted?
I'd bet on 2. No more, no less... Gone through a wide array of White / Black / Fish and White / Black for the other (without forgetting the natural at some stage in 1980 for one of these).

Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:59 pm
by Fall reverb
Ahahah wrote:
Fall reverb wrote: Well, why don't we simply start a new thread & try to establish how many Bass VI's Mr. Smith actually had/has, based on the same sources we used in this thread - that would indeed be interesting, I think...
As we say : English friends, shoot first...  ;)(I'm not English).
...he says to someone who happens to be...German...  ;D  ;)

Alright, I'll bite - I will open a new thread were we can discuss the history of Mr. Smith's various Bass VI's, and I'm already looking forward to the info that will be (hopefully) shared there!