Is it true that Stump had a three-handed bass player?

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...or am I mistakened AGAIN!

― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

it's true! i done seen him crawling through the bog.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Thursday, 10 June 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

AND AND the guy from ZZ TOP with no beard is called BEARD OMGWTF?!?!

― the surface noise is another unwelcome bonus resulting from a preamp's inab (ele, Thursday, 10 June 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

DO YOU SEE

― the surface noise is another unwelcome bonus resulting from a preamp's inab (ele, Thursday, 10 June 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

No Jim, I don't.

In fact I'm totally confused now.

I know that the guy from ZZ Top who hasn't got a beard is called (Frank) Beard (every self-respecting music obsessive learned that in year 2, surely?) - but that seems to suggest that Stump's bass player did have three arms and that every self-respecting music obsessive knows that too - but I've been paying plenty of attention and taking lots and lots of notes and yet.... and yet.... and.... yet.... I don't! [breaks down and sobs]

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 11 June 2004 07:08 (twenty-one years ago)

they're called STUMP!! and he has THREE HANDS rather than ONE!!

― the surface noise is another unwelcome bonus resulting from a preamp's inab (ele, Friday, 11 June 2004 07:09 (twenty-one years ago)

(sorry)

― the surface noise is another unwelcome bonus resulting from a preamp's inab (ele, Friday, 11 June 2004 07:10 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, but if that's the case then this still leaves me with what frankly appears to be an even more perplexing conundrum - why has no-one ever mentioned this to me before?!?

Is it some sort of a conspiracy?

Fwiw though, my mate Rob used to be in a band with a bass player who had one leg and a three-wheeled motor bike.

I suggested that they should call their demo "The Seven Legged, 15 Wheeled, Groove Machine"; but for some reason known only to themselves, they declined.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 11 June 2004 07:14 (twenty-one years ago)

boring answer: I saw stump play live, back in the day. Excellent band, I watched the whole thing and if he had three hands, I would have noticed.

Actually, I got an e-mail from him about a month ago. He asked for pics of the band for his info page, and I found one he didn't have.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 11 June 2004 07:19 (twenty-one years ago)

His name's Kev, by the way, and he's from my home town - Grimsby.

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 11 June 2004 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

".... if he had three hands, I would have noticed."

What - even if he'd kept one of them in his pocket?

".... he's from my home town - Grimsby."

Are there many people with three hands in Grimsby?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 11 June 2004 07:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I always thought it was odd that there was a man called Kev Hopper, playing in a band called Stump and yet, and yet... err, what was my point?

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 11 June 2004 07:47 (twenty-one years ago)

But surely if you've got three hands, you'd be a drummer or keyboard player or something? Using three hands on a bass does seems rather a waste.

― Johnney B, Friday, 11 June 2004 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)

you can play slap and use a pick at the same time!

― the surface noise is another unwelcome bonus resulting from a preamp's inab (ele, Friday, 11 June 2004 07:56 (twenty-one years ago)

You could play both necks of one of these....

http://www.gguitars.com/images/al781000/al781000_1a.jpg

No.... wait.... you'd need four hands to be able to do that, wouldn't you?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 11 June 2004 08:29 (twenty-one years ago)

not if you tuned one of the necks creatively

― the surface noise is another unwelcome bonus resulting from a preamp's inab (ele, Friday, 11 June 2004 08:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Hang on, I'll see if he wants to contribute...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 11 June 2004 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, then all you'd need to do would be to find a band that actually wanted two bass players; which means.... which means.... yes! Delta 5!

No, they've split up, bugger. So it means.... ummmm.... it's on the tip of my tongue....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 11 June 2004 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

(Well, when I say "Hang on" it could be weeks...)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 11 June 2004 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Still think, two bass players for the price of one, eh? Think how much that would save a hard-working band in beer alone!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 11 June 2004 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Are there many people with three hands in Grimsby?

I heard a news report about a gang of 3 armed men robbing a bank...

Badlaboom...chish!

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 11 June 2004 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Police say they do not have enough information to be able to identify the perpetrators.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 11 June 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

So anyways....
I really don't care if he had 3 hands or not.
I just wanna know if I'm mistakened or not.

― peepee (peepee), Friday, 11 June 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hang on, I'll see if he wants to contribute..."

"(Well, when I say "Hang on" it could be weeks...)"

If he's got three hands he should be like greased lightning on a PC - two hands on the keyboard and the third on the mouse!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 11 June 2004 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

...and is it true that the singer for Cud had 4 stomachs?

― peepee (peepee), Friday, 11 June 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I can confirm I have three hands. One for plucking, one for fretting and one for scratching my arse.

Kev (Hopper)

― Kev (Hopper), Friday, 11 June 2004 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, that would explain why Mark failed to notice the third one - it was 'round the back, scratching away, all the time!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 11 June 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Now that you're here 'though, why don't you re-release A Fierce bastard Pancake, eh?

(Of course normally, under circumstances such as these, I'd suggest that you get your finger out of your arse in order to do so - but in your case, what with the extra hand and everything, you don't even need to do that, do you?)

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 11 June 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

rayyyyyyyy. All hail me.

Anyhow, there is a page on his website saying that someone should re-release the Stump stuff as he gets tons of requests and interest about it. But the impression I get is that he's by and large moved on from it and doesn't want to do it himself.

MG and his showbiz mates part umm..... one. Oh well.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 11 June 2004 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

We could have a celebrity basist thread!

I should be able to get Gary "Magic" Marker and Rick "Midnight Hatsize" Snyder to pop along - I might even be able to persuade Captain Sensible to drop in and tell everyone to fuck off.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 11 June 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

A mate of mine got the capt. a council flat.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 11 June 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Was it in Brighton? If so, I may have slept on the sofa there!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 11 June 2004 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

you are correct.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 11 June 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

>But the impression I get is that he's by and large moved on from it and doesn't want to do it himself.

You are correct !

".... he's from my home town - Grimsby."

PS. How the hell do you know that? There's something fishy going on
( standard Grimbo joke)
*sigh*

― Kev, Friday, 11 June 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Kev:
Why is your ass (sic) so itchy?

― peepee (peepee), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: Lamarck vs. Darwin

― vleeetrmx21 (Leee), Friday, 11 June 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Are there people with three hands? A full, functioning third hand? How does that work?

― David Allen (David Allen), Friday, 11 June 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

You know guys, that's, um... not a hand.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Friday, 11 June 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

the burning three-lobed eye

― (Jon L), Friday, 11 June 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha:

"Nyarlathotep is also featured in the Playstation games Persona 2: Innocent Sin and Persona 2: Eternal Punishment as the final antagonist."

― (Jon L), Friday, 11 June 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Books about 'Nyarlathotep' at: amazon.com or amazon.co.uk

― (Jon L), Friday, 11 June 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread is like the cute younger brother of the prolapse thread

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Saturday, 12 June 2004 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

".... he's from my home town - Grimsby."

PS. How the hell do you know that? There's something fishy going on
( standard Grimbo joke)
*sigh*

I was gigging around the same time (The Groove Farm) and we appeared in the same fanzines. Another coincidence: Gene's bass player is also a Kev from Grimsby.

― Jez (Jez), Sunday, 13 June 2004 09:08 (twenty-one years ago)

You could be known as "Thunderthumbs"

― Keith Watson (kmw), Sunday, 13 June 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.stampede-entertainment.com/monstermakers/a-goro-1-l.jpg

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 13 June 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

That's soooooooo fake!

― peepee (peepee), Sunday, 13 June 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/kevin.hopper1/Des.html

When Stump's ex-Bass Player, and um, virtuoso sawman, went on Des O'Connor and Mel Sykes' daytime TV show...

― Mark G, Friday, 16 May 2008 11:11 (seventeen years ago)

Sure, an interesting enough account, but then:

At 42 years of age, this is the first time I can ever remember getting praise from my mother.

:(((

― RabiesAngentleman, Friday, 16 May 2008 11:26 (seventeen years ago)

fourteen years pass...

I watch this video far too often. I don't even play bass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4aSaRq5xlM

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 6 August 2022 21:06 (three years ago)

great revive

― We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 August 2022 05:38 (three years ago)

ffs

― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 7 August 2022 13:32 (three years ago)

i did suggest to mr hopper that it'd be swell if he could look after bass for keiji haino next time KH was in london & the c hayward could prob hook them up, but he gave me a shrug, not knowing at the time who KH was. ach what a pity. imagining that long instrumental stretch from "tupperware stripper" with KH doing absolutely anything over the top of it gets me excited

― massaman gai (front tea for two), Sunday, 7 August 2022 21:24 (three years ago)

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