To Those Who Trusted Me

[bovinehost]

We're at the end of a very trying few months for some of you and some of us, and there is something I've wanted to tell you but had to wait for things to be resolved, which I think they are....finally.

I divorced myself from the sales gig last fall, but I couldn't divorce myself - not really - from the people who trusted me enough to buy an instrument. I felt an obligation to you at the time, and it never stopped. When things went south, let me tell you, I felt plenty of guilt for having been involved. There was only so much I could do to make it right, but I did what I could and tried to be upfront and completely transparent with you guys.

Sometimes I didn't tell you the whole story, but not because I didn't want to. I also felt an obligation to someone else, but we're all clear now. And this ain't going to be negative to anybody, not now.

I thank you so much for hanging in there, for continuing to be my friend, all the phone calls and emails and PMs - let me promise you, you were never 'bothering' me, as I tried to make clear to those of you who thought you might be annoying me. Never. I wanted to talk to you guys.

Now that nearly everyone is taken care of, and anything left hanging should be cleared up off the forum, I just wanted to very belatedly tell you thanks from the bottom of my heart.

Now let's have a martini and play some Bongos, shall we?

Jack

 

[bdgotoh]

You have my thanks Jack for the great EBMM basses you sold to me, and of course thanks to BP and everyone at EB for making them. It would have taken me much longer to discover how much I love the HH Sterling without you guys dangling that BC limited in my face.

I'm with you but I'm playing my Sterling!

 

[syciprider]

Jack, you're a fellow sailor. I know that I can count on you to stop and save me if I'm trapped under tons of debris while the ship is sinking fast.

I guess my only regret is that I can't buy anymore basses from you. Your loss.

 

[armybass]

We all love you Jack. No one else could make us believe anything otherwise about you. We know who you are. Your large circle of friends says more than any post. It also states much about your character. If anything Jack you are too nice and trusting to a fault. That is what we love about you.....and being a sailor boy and all. I enjoyed sharing my initial lusts over EBMM basses with you and fondly remember those days and late night phone calls very much man.

Lets get back to the fun.

 

[jongitarz]

Jack, you are one of the most real, down to earth people I know, and I really bleeb that the good folks here know that too. We go back a long way here, and on the pit. I remember when I first showed up on the pit, and you gave me a heros welcome. I will not forget that, or any of our conversations on the phone, or emails, or best of all meeting you in person when you stayed with Lisa and I during the open house, and then in Dallas for the birthday bash(thank you again Sterling)

All this drama is so sad and it shows how drugs can **** everything up, but it also shows that good people are just that. Good people. Jack, you are good people, and I love you, bro. All this crap will be forgotten soon but the friendships will remain, you fuggin redneck

I love you in a really hetrosexual way(not that there is anything wrong with that)

Juan

 

[bovinehost]

Good God, what a photo, Scott. Could I have felt worse? A week in the forest with ugly Special Forces guys.....a night of drinking, watching the sun come up....needing desperately to do some laundry....wanting some human company! And despite how awful I looked and felt, we certainly looked quite rakish in those pith helmets.

The one thing, possibly, I should have learned from all those years in sometimes difficult places (and by that, I mean places where I could not find a decent salad bar) is that you know in your heart who your friends are, who you can depend on when the proverbial feces hits the equally proverbial fan.

(We can hope that at least the feces is proverbial. The fan, meh.)

I have some pretty good friends here, to be sure. Don't think for one minute that I don't appreciate that. Some of you, we've had the opportunity to hang here at Camp Bovine; some, we hooked up elsewhere - Open House, the Dallas Bongo Birthday Bash, seedy bars here and there - and I always had fun and always thought, "Yeah, that's who I thought he/she was."

We can be insular sometimes, we can be a bit on the clique-y side, we have a hard time when people put aftermarket pickups in their bass, but by and large, this is one hell of a group.

I'm proud to be a small part of it. Really.

Jon, you and Derek and Brian changed my life back in the early days of this forum, and none of us maybe even knew it at the time. Thank you for everything, but mostly for being a good friend. I couldn't ask for more - I could never have expected this much.

Jack

 

[jongitarz]

It's been a long, crazy ride here hasn't it? The forum is a different animal than it was back in the day, but it has gotten better IMHO. I mean to have the CEO of the compnay post here, and do everything he has done for/to this place is amazing. The number of people here has grown so much too!

I guess there will always be drama in life so in turn, here too, but this place will remain the cool place to hang out at that it always was.

 

[NorM]

I was going to say how much I like jon's signature but he changed it. So instead:
"Something Nice" I'm just sayin' it
I really like jon's signature.

In my resolve, I feel better today.

 

[jongitarz]

I may just put the Peace and Blessings back...The other stuff was fun between me and BP.

The peace and blessings thing was from an Erika Badu song. "Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowlege was your wealth, then it would be well earned"

I'm just sayin

 

[oddjob]

Cheers, Jack! Never doubted you for a moment... thanks!!!!!!!!

 

[Big Poppa]

norm what is your resolve? seriously.....

 

[Oldtoe]

I love all you folks, but Tyler has put a straw into his armpit and is blowing into it, thus making farting noises, which is not allowing me to finish my thought.

A moment, please...

He's really enjoying himself right now.


What was I saying?

 

[RitchieDarling]

AHHHH!!! 10,000 thanks!

Ritchie

 

[jongitarz]

My first boss at EB/MM now markets something like what Tyler is doing. It is called the Pituba. He sells a boat load of 'em. Go figure. Fart stuff doesn't get old. Ask Beth

 

[oddjob]

we have a hard time when people put aftermarket pickups in their bass

People do that ?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?! Tell me it isn't so... next, you'll say something nasty about Santa and the Easter Bunny!

Seriously, though, Jack... think about it for a moment. You could write one hell of a sociology paper on how the relationships on this forum have progressed and grown over time. I have made some great acquaintances and some truly wonderful friends because of this place and a bass... go figure (and if not a sociology paper, then a nice soap opera )

 

[Colin]

This place is great, thanks to everyone that makes EBMM and everyone that loves ebmm

 

[NorM]

norm what is your resolve? seriously.....

Just to make sure I was using the word correctly I went and looked it up at the dictionary. I was amazed at how many of the definitions fit what I am thinking. Not sure that this is the right place for this but here goes.
In my personal life the only way I maintain what little sanity I have is to put every situation in one of two buckets.
In my control
Out of my control

I was stressed. I can imagine that I was not alone here. (pun intentional)
Not sure what I should do.
So I fell back on my sanity preservation measure. I took action on the things that were in my control. Then I simply gave up on the things that were out of my control.

 

[Aussie Mark]

Jack, I hope we get around to having a beer together one day.

 

[maddog]

Jack, I hope we get around to having a martini together one day.

Fixed it for ya' Mark. I hope so too. It is all that it is cracked up to be.

 

[Colin]

Fixed it for ya' Mark. I hope so too. It is all that it is cracked up to be.

what about a martini with a beer chaser?