Happy Jack

Joining a band = one thing. Forming a band = another thing. Asking all the other members to join a non-existent band = a silly thing. YMMV

Silvie & I have replaced our existing fridge & freezer with a single, big American-style jobbie. The old freezer went this afternoon. We can help you load the fridge into the back of your car ... INDESIT SIAA12 https://markselectrical.co.uk/SIAA12_Indesit-Tall-Larder-Fridge.html It was new in April 2017, works fine, but we've been having an issue with door closure to the slightly uneven surface on which it stands. It currently resides at HA1 3RG and - obviously - we'd like it gone sooner rather than later.

Incidentally, I'm looking for 16–18 1st violins, 16 2nd violins, 12 violas, 12 cellos, 7 double basses, 4 flutes (one with piccolo as a specialty), 4 oboes (one with English horn as a specialty), 4 clarinets (one with bass clarinet as a specialty, another specializing in high clarinets), 4 bassoons (one with double bassoon as a specialty) plus 5–8 horns, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones (one with bass trombone as a specialty), 1 tuba, 1 kettledrum player, 3–4 percussionists (of whom at least one must also play kettledrum), 1–2 harps and a keyboard player (piano, celesta, harpsichord, etc.) to form a new orchestra.

God loves a tryer ... https://www.lemonrock.com/smallad.php?id=18338

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.

I never get tired of posting this ...

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!

https://reverb.com/uk/item/4058771-doff-balalaika-bass-master-2016-gloss-natural

Do mag pickups and Silver Slaps go together at all?

Words to live by, mate. But I think you'll be pleasantly surprised ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

Just to make a contribution, can I also suggest you check out the Valeton Dapper:

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!

I'm absolutely sure there's a clever link here to 50 Shades Of Grey ...

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.

No no no ... now you have to start collecting all the colours.

To have the mind-set, you need to collect them all Chris ...

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.

Can't tell you how many I have. I've run out of fingers.