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Hi friends! I wish to continue this website for a long time. Your support gives me the power. The todays support comes from left-handed bassists from 4 countries. For the first time I got the informations from Sweden and Brazil! I´m glad to feature you Carlos Alvarez / USA, Vitus Leinthaler / Germany, Chris Becker / USA, Fredrik Odelmalm / Sweden and Klaus Werner Holz / Brazil. Thank you very much! Maybe you have notice my preparation for the 3rd CD of
lefthand bass players. I try to get famous support for this project and I´m glad
to get promise from Jimmy Haslip. I´m sorry to tell you about the cancellation
of King´s X bassist Doug Pinnick. He told me that he´s very bussy in his
job. Maybe he can send a song on the 4th CD project. I try to get in touch with Colin
Hodgkinson. (If you know how to get in touch with the managemend of Paul McCartney,
please let me know!)
Stay in touch! Arni |
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Yes, a long time has passed since the last update. But this doesn´t means, nothing has happened:
Thank you very much for your support! I hope more lefties will follow these examples. In the meantime I got a lot of mails. Here are two of them, very intresting for
us lefties here in Europe (and maybe in other countries): Glynn Wiener / USA sent me
this information about lefty Spector basses without extra charge: "Arni - Came across this information at the Spector
web site. (Ironically these are European instruments discounted from the American office.
Not sure how savings would be if shipped back to Europe...)" http://www.ssdbass.com/NewFiles/lefty2003.html
Take care and stay in touch! Arni |
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I´m glad to see that our community of lefty bassplayers is growing up. It´s a good feeling to get your help for a big website. So please welcome Olaf Reijnders from Holland and Frederik Lubitz from Germany. |
They are still there - the rare lefty basses! In September 2003 this 69´Gibson EB-0 was offered by an internet auction. This bass was coming up with a original case and was sold by a price of 1025 USD. |
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What´s the life wothout good friends?! Armin Klopfer had visited us this month here in Bielefeld / Germany. Together we went to the world greatest musicstore and have seen some of the sightseeing highlights in our area. Armin has given me a copy of the new CD from his band "The Gas". This CD contains impressive hardrock stuff. |
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I was looking for a specialist of varnish of Fender basses here in Germany. With the friendly help from Marleaux Basses (thank you very much Tilman Antons!) I got contact to Dragan from FineArt. I was astonished about his special knowledge of the different used Fender varnish all over the years. If you need help, I think Dragan can help you the answer your questions. Contact: FINEART@t-online.de |
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David Schönknecht /Germany and Roberto Tormo / France have sent me their information, to let grow up our community. Thanks for your support, David and Roberto! In the past time, I´ve got some inquiries asking for the 3nd Lefty-Bassplayer-CD Project. I will tell you the truth. I wasn´t thinking about that till now. What Du you think? Are you intrested in that? Let me know what your opinion is and please use my guestbook, so everyone will see if it works. If you don´t know what the rules are for a participation, please check out the last "project". Frans Vollink (Netherlands) got his own homepage! Please visit his website: http://www.fransvollink.tk/ Take care! Arni |
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Hi lefties! It´s hot here in Germany! 37°! (100 °F). Here is a new update for you! Matthieu Cleijne / Netherlands has given me his informations to feature him in our international lefty list! Thank you very much Mattieu and welcome! |
I have finished the review of my meeting with my friend Marco Mazotti. I met him in Switzerland in May this year. You will find this review in my rubric "meetings". (or click here). At this point I will thank Reto Bauert and Marco Mazotti very much for all they have done to me! |
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Let´s talk about the Fender Japan Web Shop:
David Barlow has owned a lefty Fender Jazz Bass from the Fender Japan Web Shop and he is very satisfied with it. If you are intrested in his email address, I will ask him before. Maybe you can change your experiences. Bill Morgan / Africa has send me some pics of his basses. |
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Robert Threapleton / England is a new member of our international lefty list. Thank you very much Robert for getting your support!! Alexander Bickel / Austria has made his own bass by himself. Please check out his own website, to get some more details of his new baby. click here |
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Attention! I got several new contacts to lefty bassplayers from all over this world past time. I don´t know why, I can´t answer this mails. Some of my mails came back and wasn't able to deliver to the addresses: Mails from Maxime Theron / South Africa; Mike Manuel / New Zealand; Herman Merlos / Argentina; Mads Geisler / Denmark; Jeremy Gypton / USA . To make all the trouble perfect, my harddisc was crashed down. I lost some mails which were comming in from May till June this year. So please write me again, if you didn´t got a answer. . |
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H.H. Babe sent me two of his CD´s. His music is a very good and intresting mix of bavarian traditionals und modern elements. Funny lyrics (in German). They play their music with (lefty) bass, acoustic guitar and the bavarian tradition instrument, the "Zither"! |
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Endzeit für Götter (Zither-Manä & H.H. Babe) Song-example: Waltzing Mathilda |
Heavy Volksmusik (Zither-Manä & H.H. Babe) Song-example: In Search Of The LostGroupie |
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