Date:         Fri, 8 Sep 2006 16:41:00 -0700
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: OT , now Bass Lists
Comments: To: Neal Barrentine <vwneal@bluemarble.net>
In-Reply-To:  <2d6bd7fdc0fd5eadf4d5170178e3b74c@bluemarble.net>
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My wife plays string bass in our bluegrass band and is a great singer and
songwriter. I also play bass, but guitar is my main instrument with mandolin
third. I haven't played mandolin on stage at all; I'm not good enough, and I
can't play it and sing at the same time!

My younger boy plays guitar in a local rock band called 'Coffee and
Cigarettes' who are really good and starting to get noticed, electric bass
in a jazz fusion band and drums in a straight ahead jazz quartet.

Obviously, its good to have more than one Vanagon!

We can put a four piece bluegrass band with guitar, banjo, mandolin and
stringbass in either one and still arrive at the gig relaxed.  Well, maybe
not the driver if the gig is uphill all the way, like Whistler.

My wife drives a Golf and her bass fits in just fine.

Jake

On 9/8/06, Neal Barrentine <vwneal@bluemarble.net> wrote:
>
> My son plays bass, and I play drums. Between the two of us we can fill
> the Vanagon full with our equipment.
> Neal Barrentine
> Bloomington, Indiana
> 1986 GL
> 1960 Baja Bug
>
> > Subject: Re: OT , now Bass Lists
> >
> > Well, I realize this is the Vanagon list and I guess I don't want to
> > streatch out an off topic too long but, being that I never considered
> > it
> > before this thread started, exactly how many Bass players do we have
> > here on
> > the list?
> >
> > I have been playing for 19 years - mostly self taught (which
> > translates into
> > "I'm a seasoned amature") but I can hold my own - mostly various kinds
> > of Rock but I have dabbled in country and even Salsa if you can imagine
> > that.
> >
>



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Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
www.crescentbeachguitar.com