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Yes, Chris, if you're viewing us, I hope I can count on you for a Foreword to my book on Rickenbacker basses. I talked with you briefly about that at the 75th. The book is coming along slowly, but eventually I'd like to tap you for that piece.

Thanks, Elys, for setting up this department!

Oh, here you are. Very cool to have added this section. Do we all get CS signature 4001's for participating? I know, I shoulda got one way back when, oh well.

Well Mr Chris Squire, you have a great deal to answer for.

If it wasn't for you and your popular beat combo I would not have bought a Rickenbacker 4001 in 1974, dropped out of art college to join a rock band, spend the next 18 months on the road, spend the next 32 years trying to master the bass and never really getting a well paid career together!

Would I have changed any of it? Not a single day.

GOD BLESS YOU CHRIS.

You have an excellent point, Bob! I want Chris to know the extent of the impact he has had on our lives. It is one thing for a rock star to have a distant and nebulous concept of his "fans" as being people out there who buy tickets and come to shows. It is quite another to be able to read and "feel" the personal emotion in our accounts of how he and his music over the decades made an impact in our lives when we were young, that helped shape us and our destiny. If it had not been for Chris, I would have gotten out of the music business years earlier and gone to college earlier. Who knows where I would have wound up if that had happened? But, like you, I would not trade a minute of the path I did choose, inspired by YES and Chris and wanting (professionally) to be just like him!

Now with 30 years behind me of playing bass, I obviously listen to the bass line when I hear music...it has become an involuntary process of analysis I suppose.

When I first heard the 'Fragile' album sometime the early 70s(my sister had it on 8-track tape) I can recall that with this particular record, you didn't have a choice BUT to listen to the bass line... due to the sound of the bass and the way it was being played.

A real 'Big Bang' in my personal development as a musician.

Ahh...my 3000th post. Yay to me and Chris Squire. Everyone drink up.

Congrats, John!

...burp!

Well, where is Chris?...

He and Scotty are living in London right now. To get even one signup and 1 post from a major rock star is enough to last awhile!

Happy 3000th, John!! Here's a pint for you, mate! And an extra pint from the squeezepunp for Chris too, as you say

Well, where is this one post then?...

Look under the thread "Squire- FOOW Re-issue News" on July 12, 2007, 8:26pm, in this forum!

Chris is the man, and he does indeed respond to emails. I emailed him this morning and I already received a reply. He said he only posted once, but he is reading posts from the forum.
Great Guy!

To make it easy, Sérgio, just click here:

http://www.rickresource.com/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?tpc=162095&post=352816#POST352816

Here you go Sergio. I see you beat me to it, Elys.

It's twice as nice to be 1 for 1 redundant, at least in the computer world!