Happy Jack

Y'see, I always thought it was when Elvis got drafted.

When you carved your name into the body, you spelled it wrong Andy.

I know a drummer who can do this for you too ...

Personally, I rather liked the Page / Hendrix flick-switch ...

There's a well-known blues outfit in London called The Delta Ladies - they're actually two guys in drag playing guitar and fiddle plus a percussionist. The percussionist sits on a stool holding a large djembe under his left arm, and he has his cajon on an angled stand alongside him to his right. He routinely plays the djembe with his left hand + the cajon with his right hand + various bits & pieces with his feet. It doesn't just look good, he's also a top-notch percussionist and his set-up allows him plenty of variety.

Bugger! I was looking forward to catching up, Steve.

Agreed, unless they are on-boarding a shedload of new material in a hurry.

You can almost hear the foam under the strings ...

Too much fun? Well that's news to me, Too much fun? There must be A whole lot of things that I never done ... I ain't never had too much fun. Bill Kirchen

And think of all the time you'd have saved!

Shall we play a game?

Are we going to allow bots to play? If not, then the reality will emerge, which is that there are only 12 Basschatters and almost all the user names are imaginary ...

Why did you buy two sofas with slightly different colours?

They were made by both Hagstrom and (under licence) by a Czechoslovak firm that just called itself Futurama. The Swedish models had nicer design touches (like the cheese-grater grille) and a rather nicer neck. In good nick they play as well (or as badly) as any other 60s shortscale. The intonation is clumsy but with flats and a thuddy sound that's no more of a problem than it was for the Hofner Violin, its exact contemporary. If you run out of trussrod adjustment and the neck is banana'd then the very high action which results will leave very inconsistent tuning up and down the neck.

Me too ... I don't know exactly why, but it's just a lovely thing to look at.

As we drove home from Leighton Buzzard at 1am after last night's gig, I was saying to Silvie how much I enjoy the drive home in the wee small hours ... a reminder of how driving in London used to be.

Pah! No commitment ...

His autobiography is well worth the read. He had an amazing life, and seems to have been a pretty amazing guy.

Yup, me too. I sold it because it looked cool but sounded crap. Then I bought this black one and I sourced a Dark Star pickup. Now it looks cool and sounds absolutely righteous.

On 14th August 1965 I was an 8-year-old wanting to be taken to the public swimming pool. I had no clue what a bass guitar was.

It's just such an outrageous thing to look at. The blank, white wall above my TV is a rotating art installation. Up until now the rotation has been: Now they have a new friend!

That reminds me of the days when you could go to a disco and see people playing air keyboards ...

Very old-school thumb work.

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