Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar

eggwheat · Post by **eggwheat** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:16 pm

Cool pics! Never seen these before!

PorkyPrimeCut · Post by **PorkyPrimeCut** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:37 pm

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

StevenO · Post by **StevenO** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:52 pm

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?

Fall reverb · Post by **Fall reverb** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 4:13 pm

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!

PorkyPrimeCut · Post by **PorkyPrimeCut** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:05 pm

StevenO wrote: And the reason for global warming has been found.

Ahahah · Post by **Ahahah** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:30 am

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 ?

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 ?

PorkyPrimeCut · Post by **PorkyPrimeCut** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:37 am

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!!

My hair? Still going strong!!

Ahahah · Post by **Ahahah** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:58 am

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!!

My hair? Still going strong!!

Happy for your hair

And sorry for the misunderstanding...

scottme · Post by **scottme** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:18 am

This thread is threatening to rival the "Show us a pic of you and your Offsets" thread.

Ahahah · Post by **Ahahah** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:21 am

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).

Fall reverb · Post by **Fall reverb** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:29 am

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).

Don't get me started then...

Ahahah · Post by **Ahahah** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:43 am

Fall reverb wrote: Don't get me started then...

Could be funny though...
This is an interesting subject and just speaking about it makes me little shaky...

Fall reverb · Post by **Fall reverb** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:03 am

Ahahah wrote: Could be funny though...
This is an interesting subject and just speaking about it makes me little shaky...

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?

Ahahah · Post by **Ahahah** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:09 am

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).

Fall reverb · Post by **Fall reverb** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:59 pm

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...

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!