Happy Jack

So, like they say, you're only as good as your drummer. That's my excuse, anyway.

He's not keen to sell it, is he? His listing is less informative than most would use to sell an Encore Precision, there's just a single photo, and it's collection only from Taunton!

This is NOT what the word "crack" was developed for. The word you need here is "crevice", or possibly "canyon". Alternatively you could cut to the chase and just say FUBAR.

Remind me to introduce you to my bands, both of them. They might take a slightly kindlier attitude to my cat-herding efforts if they knew you'd actually put a clock on your band!

That's the most bitsa'd Bitsa I can recall seeing recently. "Look, I seem to have all these leftover bits following my mucking about during Lockdown ... I wonder if I could combine them all in one bass?"

I have a Magnum II fretless and a Magnum III fretted. They're both glorious sounding basses, and the quirks of the design are really quite fascinating (as is the back-story to Ovation generally), but they are undeniably heavy beasts. That enormous mud-bucker at the neck does not produce the expected Gibson EB thud, but is far more musical and 'tailorable' thanks to individual volume controls for each pole-piece. The tones you can get when combining both pickups are well worth experimenting with.

Currently on very sharp price reduction, down from £20 to just £6. Can't help but think this may be something to do with it being (incorrectly) listed as - and I quote - #1 Bestseller in Children's Books on Rock Music. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1472129385/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I watched an old movie a few weeks ago starring some guy called Elvis something-or-other. He had an acoustic guitar slung around his neck for half the film but he hardly played it, and when he did he was obviously miming.

Just watched an excellent YouTube about little-known aspects of Back To The Future, which was really jolly good. Then the presenter signed off by remarking that it had just occurred to him to wonder what would happen if HE was sent back 30 years in time, and someone challenged him by asking, "Oh yeh? So who's the President in 2020 then?".

Yes, because Wyman is always associated with Wal basses through his long career with the Stones. Oh no ... wait ...

Gob-smacked! (That's where the tooth came from.)

Damn! He may not ship to the UK ...

Just be sure that the connectors are all platinum-plated (gold-plated is so passe, my dear), the cables are oxygen-free, and the packaging that it all comes in is made of unobtainium.

OK, just read through all of that (my speed-reading course was a wonderful investment) and nowhere at all does it mention which noise meter is best for metal. Call that research? Pah!

Blimey! That's peak George Formby, that is.

Bizarrely, the Lidl website offers no Search facility. But at least it offered me the chance to watch their latest TV advert. WT actual F? Like that's going to happen ...

Dunno about indoors, but one of my bands has AT LAST got its first post-Lockdown gig on the August BH weekend. There's a smallish beer garden in front of the pub where they want us to play, then the pub's own small car park, then a quiet side road, then the blank side of a large Sainsburys (which will be closed at the time). That means that we can (if necessary) play the gig completely unplugged, without even a vocal PA, which is how we've been rehearsing during lockdown.

What's that you say, Yorks5stringer?

So @wintoid, are you planning to buy one of each or just see which Wanted ad gets a reply first?

The easy (but totally unhelpful) advice is 'let the market decide'. It's situations like this that auctions were designed for. If however - and quite understandably - you don't want to throw yourself on the mercy of eBay, then the next best alternative is to take it up to The Gallery and offer it for sale on a commission basis. It's in the shop's best interest to get the best price possible, and they attract enough specialist bass players to hopefully bring in the one guy/girl who will look at your rare oddity and buy it. Lovely looking bass, BTW, despite it being a sixer. Scale length? Weight?

I'm stunned. Shocked and stunned.