Bill Ashton
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...passed away in Hilo, Hawaii last Thursday while in hospice for congestive heart failure...
I seem to remember that he played an hollow-bodied bass, perhaps a Guild?
Had their album Benefit back in the day, great stuff!
Great story from the JT website:
Hi Glenn,
TM from New Jersey. Would you mind telling the gang about the pranks you used to play on Mick?
Thanks!
Mick was always very unpleasant to Roy the roadie who, at that time was making absolute minimum money, and was always yelling at him and complaining about everything. At that time we were all hard up for money and using well worn equipment. At one gig, Mick blew a speaker (1 of 8) and had to buy a replacement which Roy installed in one of Mick's cabinets. Roy kept the blown speaker and, after every gig, put the blown speaker back into one of Mick's cabinets to make him think he had blown another speaker and make him buy another new one. The good speakers that came from Mick's cabinets went into my cabinets to replace my thrashed speakers and Roy continued doing it until Mick had unknowingly replaced all 8 of my speakers! Mick always thought he had just had a bad run on speakers.
I never felt guilty about it as it was small payback for some of the unpleasant things that Mick did to us (and which I feel I must keep to myself)
I seem to remember that he played an hollow-bodied bass, perhaps a Guild?
Had their album Benefit back in the day, great stuff!
Great story from the JT website:
Hi Glenn,
TM from New Jersey. Would you mind telling the gang about the pranks you used to play on Mick?
Thanks!
Mick was always very unpleasant to Roy the roadie who, at that time was making absolute minimum money, and was always yelling at him and complaining about everything. At that time we were all hard up for money and using well worn equipment. At one gig, Mick blew a speaker (1 of 8) and had to buy a replacement which Roy installed in one of Mick's cabinets. Roy kept the blown speaker and, after every gig, put the blown speaker back into one of Mick's cabinets to make him think he had blown another speaker and make him buy another new one. The good speakers that came from Mick's cabinets went into my cabinets to replace my thrashed speakers and Roy continued doing it until Mick had unknowingly replaced all 8 of my speakers! Mick always thought he had just had a bad run on speakers.
I never felt guilty about it as it was small payback for some of the unpleasant things that Mick did to us (and which I feel I must keep to myself)
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