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  1. Happy Jack
    God loves a tryer ... https://www.lemonrock.com/smallad.php?id=18338
  2. Happy Jack
    Bwahahahaha!!! Silvie and I have met him, and he seemed like a regular guy. Bit much to say that he's 'playing' a 15-string guitar. He's playing a 4-string bass that happens to have some unused thinner strings plus about eight entirely unusable bits of fencing wire as a thumbrest. In fact, the thing I noticed most was the cheap wood varnish that had been slopped all over the fretboard, apparently with an old sponge.
  3. Happy Jack
    I never get tired of posting this ...
  4. Happy Jack
    As a bassist who has been obsessed with lightweight basses for a long time, that is just lovely. Bloody good thing it's a jazz configuration though. I don't get on with jazz basses so there's no temptation there!
  5. Happy Jack
    https://reverb.com/uk/item/4058771-doff-balalaika-bass-master-2016-gloss-natural
  6. Happy Jack
    Do mag pickups and Silver Slaps go together at all?
  7. Happy Jack
    Words to live by, mate. But I think you'll be pleasantly surprised ...
  8. Happy Jack
    Boom stand? I think not. That looks like a custom build. MacDaddy, I'll show you how you do it next time you're round at the Junkyard. It ain't rocket science if you have the right piece of kit.
  9. Happy Jack
    Thomann want €125 for the Schaller 411: https://www.thomann.de/gb/schaller_kontrabasspickup.htm?glp=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw45_bBRD_ARIsAJ6wUXQCXcaYAOwNmGF767cIf3JI3XflFmaTCrsU--1Eq4g8mFrkvvjSD9IaAt3yEALw_wcB Gollihur want $199 (+ P&P) for the Krivo Humbucker: https://www.gollihurmusic.com/product/2435-KRIVO_HUMBUCKING_MAGNETIC_UPRIGHT_BASS_PICKUP_NEW_SMALLER_MODEL_INCLUDES_FREE_JACK_MOUNT.html Definitely more, costwise, but not exactly life-changing. When you think about how much we all splash on our DBs and then on amplifying the buggers, this don't amount to a hill o' beans.
  10. Happy Jack
    Collection only from Liverpool, which will hold the price down, and the Start Bid point is crazy cheap for one of these. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wem-watkins-dominator-mk2-combo-amp-15-speaker-ECL82-ECC83/192614726514?hash=item2cd8bb7b72:g:Aw0AAOSw~yNbYbvN If you've not played through a Dommie 25 then you'll have to trust me ... these things sound unbelievably lush.
  11. Happy Jack
    Not exactly lap-friendly, but I rather like that. I wonder how easy it would be to flip it around to be right-handed? Oh no ... wait ...
  12. Happy Jack
    Just to make a contribution, can I also suggest you check out the Valeton Dapper:
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  14. Happy Jack
    Remember this? Wonderfully, sublimely, I have just this minute stumbled across the same band's advert in June for ... a new drummer. Oh joy, oh rapture unforeseen!
  15. Happy Jack
    I'm absolutely sure there's a clever link here to 50 Shades Of Grey ...
  16. Happy Jack
    That's fascinating. I'm aware that my hearing is no longer great, but I could only hear a difference when my eyes told me that she'd swopped instruments.
  17. Happy Jack
    No no no ... now you have to start collecting all the colours.
  18. Happy Jack
    To have the mind-set, you need to collect them all Chris ...
  19. Happy Jack
    You forgot to mention that the display looks wicked cool on stage ...
  20. Happy Jack
    I've made this point before in previous threads with similar content ... context is everything. The landscape looks very different at 61 than it did at 16. The decisions you make (study or not study, for example) are driven by your view of that landscape, Having read the things that I have read here on Basschat over the last decade, if I were 16 then I'd have done things differently. As it happens, I'm not 16. Sad, but true.
  21. Happy Jack
    Can't tell you how many I have. I've run out of fingers.
  22. Happy Jack
    Veering off topic, but staying on theme, I played a big social club a few months back and the regulars complained about the music I put through the PA during the breaks ... "not 70s enough", they said. We played there again last Saturday so I brought along a double CD of "Top Of The Pops - Best Of The Seventies". Halfway through the second break I realised that my PA was belting out "Whoah Black Betty - Bam-a-Lam!".
  23. Happy Jack
    1) Cetera - Spector NS2 & Legend 4X, Dingwall NG2, Epiphone Vintage Pro Thunderbird, Yamaha BB3000, GK800RB head, Genz Benz Neox212 cab, Tech-21 Dug DP3X preamp/pedal 2) Ezbass - Maruszczyk Elwood L 4 string fretted (J pickups), Maruszczyk Elwood L 4 string fretless (MM pickup), Rickenbacker 4003s, Rob Allen MB2 fretless, Phil Jones Flightcase + PB300 3) Happy Jack - AliKat DB #004, Mike Lull 54P, all I need to play a doubling gig (that evening) on those two instruments 4) BlueJay - Eminence Upright (left-handed), loads of camera equipment
  24. Happy Jack
    I had one of these years ago and, despite the high reputation and exorbitant price, I wasn't actually that impressed with it. More recently I needed the same effect again so I bought https://www.andertons.co.uk/fishman-fission-bass-pedal-pro-fsn-bas?LGWCODE=PROFSNBAS;56375;6335&gclid=CjwKCAjw14rbBRB3EiwAKeoG_zZAI2_khAMhHZUjIvSXjJzLqRdiI2DL4UjTcLu8CsKsHvb9WG-RWRoCY2QQAvD_BwE Still bloody expensive, but iMHO a better pedal.
  25. Happy Jack
    Definite step-change (in a good way) so far this year - some really nice videos there.
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