Cardboard Bass

**urko** · 12-09-2006, 10:45 PM

Can think of worse uses for cardboard......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6cTbaBApM4

Antwhiplash · 13-09-2006, 09:27 AM

There was a tramp in Liverpool who usedto have a cardboard guitar with stings drawn on in marker pen who would just strum away going "plinky plinky plink plinky plink...." ad infinitum!
He could of then gone breakdancing with this
http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/6...003156l7oz.jpg

Antwhiplash · 13-09-2006, 09:29 AM

By the way, what is the HTML to put a picture in a post, just tried the usual HTML (copied from the page source of a post with an image on this site) & in the preview it didn't show up

Would have looked boss!

**benjamin hatton** · 13-09-2006, 09:57 AM

Originally Posted by Antwhiplash

By the way, what is the HTML to put a picture in a post, just tried the usual HTML (copied from the page source of a post with an image on this site) & in the preview it didn't show up

Would have looked boss!

you can't post images directly here anymore, you need to use a site like imageshack or something similar, host the picture there and then paste the link in your post here

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Antwhiplash · 13-09-2006, 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by benjamin hatton

you can't post images directly here anymore, you need to use a site like imageshack or something similar, host the picture there and then paste the link in your post here

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That's what i tried to do, the picture is held elswhere, tried to link to it but didn't work.

**dave_kinky** · 13-09-2006, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by Antwhiplash

There was a tramp in Liverpool who usedto have a cardboard guitar with stings drawn on in marker pen who would just strum away going "plinky plinky plink plinky plink...." ad infinitum!
He could of then gone breakdancing with this
http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/6...003156l7oz.jpg

Oh my god I think I remember him! I think one day he was down by Mathew St playing a paint tin as a drum wearing a kids plastic army helmet. With leaf camouflage. Early 90's!

Antwhiplash · 13-09-2006, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by dave_kinky

Oh my god I think I remember him! I think one day he was down by Mathew St playing a paint tin as a drum wearing a kids plastic army helmet. With leaf camouflage. Early 90's!

That's him, what a star he was, made quite a bit of dosh by the look of it, dissapeared for a while & we all thought he was dead, then he turned up again for a bit (always near Matthew Street), then dissapeared again.
I reckon he's touring the world with a cardboard orchestra

**Brass Monkey** · 13-09-2006, 11:41 AM

Originally Posted by Antwhiplash

That's him, what a star he was, made quite a bit of dosh by the look of it, dissapeared for a while & we all thought he was dead, then he turned up again for a bit (always near Matthew Street), then dissapeared again.
I reckon he's touring the world with a cardboard orchestra

When I remember him he had upgraded from cardboard to plywood and if i think they painted a picture of him on the wall of the Irish Pub (name escapes me but probs had bicycles on the ceiling) he used to play outside. Nosoul probably used to drink with the fella - he'll remember his name.

Antwhiplash · 13-09-2006, 11:49 AM

Originally Posted by Brass Monkey

he had upgraded from cardboard to plywood

This is obviously when it all started to go wrong, got to big for his boots & his genuine fans left in disgust, nearly as big a deal as when The Beatles left for London.
I can't believe you mentioned that pub, how dare you, 1st went in there when i was about 17 & now i'm 40 & went a couple of years ago last & just cause you mentioned it now i can't remember the name either

**benjamin hatton** · 13-09-2006, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by Antwhiplash

That's what i tried to do, the picture is held elswhere, tried to link to it but didn't work.

click on the "insert image" button (it's the yellow one that looks like a mountain or summat), and then paste the link, hopefully that should work....

**Brass Monkey** · 13-09-2006, 11:56 AM

Originally Posted by Antwhiplash

This is obviously when it all started to go wrong, got to big for his boots & his genuine fans left in disgust, nearly as big a deal as when The Beatles left for London.
I can't believe you mentioned that pub, how dare you, 1st went in there when i was about 17 & now i'm 40 & went a couple of years ago last & just cause you mentioned it now i can't remember the name either

I'm getting apples in the pub title but might be wrong (or was it Rosie O'Grady's?). Also - he used to do Beatles covers only.

I dispute your assertion that he earned bags of cash cuz he was a tramp and he smelt of poo and if he had earned bags of cash he would have washed, shaved and used a toilet rather than his trousers.

**dave_kinky** · 13-09-2006, 01:34 PM

Originally Posted by Brass Monkey

When I remember him he had upgraded from cardboard to plywood and if i think they painted a picture of him on the wall of the Irish Pub (name escapes me but probs had bicycles on the ceiling) he used to play outside. Nosoul probably used to drink with the fella - he'll remember his name.

That was it. By the Irish pub, cold winter morning, plastic tub for a drum. Coooome on!