Wellington August 2012 gearfest

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What date is best?

Saturday 4th August
8
50%
Sunday 5th August
2
13%
Saturday 11th August
3
19%
Sunday 12th August
0
No votes
Saturday 18th August
0
No votes
Sunday 19th August
0
No votes
Saturday 25th August
1
6%
Sunday 26th August
2
13%
 
Total votes: 16

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Re: Wellington August 2012 gearfest

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Moar photo's here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nikplayer/ ... 902805876/

I did cull a lot of the Orange pics as I had a ton of them, I'm a bit partial to Orange 8)

Feel free to re-post these if you want.
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slash-ed wrote:http://sixstringsamurai.co.nz/2012/08/0 ... -gearfest/

:)

Or if you don't want to read my blather, skip straight to the photos: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set= ... 660&type=1

Sorry, couldn't be bothered putting it elsewhere and embedding it.

I'm also looking forward to sizzlingbadger's photos which I'm sure will cover all the stuff I missed.
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sizzlingbadger wrote:Moar photo's here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nikplayer/ ... 902805876/

I did cull a lot of the Orange pics as I had a ton of them, I'm a bit partial to Orange 8)

Feel free to re-post these if you want.
they look great! Good job! :)
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nice pics

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jeremyb wrote:
slash-ed wrote:http://www.sixstringsamurai.co.nz/2012/ ... -gearfest/

:)

Or if you don't want to read my blather, skip straight to the photos: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set= ... 660&type=1

Sorry, couldn't be bothered putting it elsewhere and embedding it.

I'm also looking forward to sizzlingbadger's photos which I'm sure will cover all the stuff I missed.
Nice work Ed!
Thanks jb. :D

Thanks for the great pics, Nik! I may steal some when I'm on a faster internet connection... went over my broadband limit, doh.

Question, how come the link to the website doesn't transfer over in quotes? Oh well... for anyone who may be interested, and can't be bothered copy/pasting... http://sixstringsamurai.co.nz/2012/08/0 ... -gearfest/
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Yeah nice pics...but which one is BG? :mrgreen:

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Daza152 wrote:Yeah nice pics...but which one is BG? :mrgreen:
He's the one in Auckland.
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Vince wrote:
Daza152 wrote:Yeah nice pics...but which one is BG? :mrgreen:
He's the one in Auckland.
Ha Ha..Sorry :oops: Thought I would finally see the face of the Man they call 'BG'. :lolno:

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He prefers Jazz anyway.

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Great to meet the peeps, good sorts all round.
I loved the walls of Orange and Vox.
Guitar of the day for me has to be the Helio(?) Ed picked up.
What a great guitar, nice score Ed and kudos to Ash for a mad skills.

I really liked the White Falcon of polar bear's, and comic sans aside I was impressed with the McPherson red booster.

The Orange Rockerverb 100 sounded great even through two walls, and tubeswell's Princeton clone with black paisley tolex was something special with bbrunskill playing through it. I wanted hamo to wear a pirate outfit when playing his rig of Pirates of the Caribbean guitar with Blackheart amp.
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Daza152 wrote:
Vince wrote:
Daza152 wrote:Yeah nice pics...but which one is BG? :mrgreen:
He's the one in Auckland.
Ha Ha..Sorry :oops: Thought I would finally see the face of the Man they call 'BG'. :lolno:
You will. But, outside Auckland, it only happens once every hundred years. And it's so quick, many think it was just a dream.
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TmcB wrote:Great to meet the peeps, good sorts all round.
Yeah, good to meet you too! Guess neither of us looks like our avatar.
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I met BG in the dark once. I still couldn't accurately describe him to the police though.
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BG = Bewitched Ghost, he rides a unicorn through middle earth.
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badmotor wrote:I met BG in the dark once. I still couldn't accurately describe him to the police though.
He turned up to one of our Wellie gearfests and, as soon as I saw this stranger holding a box of Kilkennies, I knew who it HAD to be! :lol: :lol:
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