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Happy Jack

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  1. This is the electronic kit I bought some years ago from Silldx (Nigel) as an intro to leccy drums for my band, The Junkyard Dogs. It has served as an excellent practice & rehearsal kit in my little studio, it has won us loads of gigs where live drum kits were not welcome (volume issues being what they are), and it's still fully functional. There is wear and tear of course. Well what do you expect? These buggers keep coming round to my place and hitting it all evening. Some of the trigger sensors can be a bit tetchy, one of the cymbals has a metal ring detached, the throne is very tired and emotional, there are scuff marks that could scuff for England. But it's a complete, fully functional kit, and there's even some spare parts knocking around. There's the full frame + controller + snare & hi-hat + 3 x toms + 2 x splash + BOTH pedals (hi-hat & kick) + throne. Might even chuck in a pair of sticks. I'm known for my generosity. We gigged twice with it at the beginning of January and we'd be gigging it again in three weeks (at The Red Lion, in Little Missenden) were it not for the fact that I've just bought a rather nice Alesis Crimson II. So it's in fully-giggable condition if that's what you want. On t'other hand it's also brilliant for rehearsals in a home studio, and it would make an excellent first kit for a beginner. It's taking up too much space now that the Alesis has arrived, so I need it gone quickly. I'll give it a week on Basschat and, if it doesn't sell, it'll go to eBay. Bluejay will be taking photos tomorrow morning, and I'll add them asap. The kit is collection only from HA1. Please don't ask about postage - I don't have a Jiffy bag that's big enough. Similarly, please don't ask whether I'll wait in for your courier, since a mouthful of abusive language often offends.
  2. Maybe if it stays at £1.20 ...
  3. That's seen a lot of Ford Transits, Mick ...
  4. I'm still not getting the conflict people seem to imagine between bass and uke. Why not both? Why not the same instrument, even?
  5. The cheesy 80s presentation is one of the funniest (and best-done) things I've seen in ages.
  6. Goes with the trainers, anyway ...
  7. In fairness, he did mow the lawn ...
  8. Someone's been doing too much plucking ...
  9. Is it actually his to sell? The way the listing reads, it seems that he's listed it on behalf of someone else.
  10. This is a helluva lot of DB for not much money. I have one of these and I've played two more, and all three of them sound way better than they should at this price point.
  11. There's more to life than bloody lentils.
  12. Hmmmmm. Perfectly adequate rendition, nothing to object to, and no reason to be impressed. I've heard it played as well as that at local jam sessions by scratch bands. So what makes it worth watching? Sad to relate, for most I imagine that it's the bass player's cut off shorts. I note that the rest of the band are wearing normal jeans so it's clearly not a particularly hot night where they are. Far from being a sexist post, this is intended as an anti-sexist post. It depresses me that she attracts attention not for her (adequate but unexciting) bass playing or singing, but because she shows her legs.
  13. That £23bn valuation makes me smile. Am I really the only one who remembers the DotCom bubble bursting?
  14. Passive tone controls have a very limited effect, little more than rolling off the treble. They are also thoroughly non-linear, i.e. turning the knob through 50% of its travel may have 100% effect or it may have Nil effect ... I've had plenty that were virtually on/off switches. And sometimes, especially on cheaper basses, they may have no effect at all due to the quality of the components used. My solution is simple. I hardly ever touch the tone knob on a passive bass.
  15. Did it contain nuts?
  16. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4003-Bass-Guitar/282863166865?hash=item41dbf56591:g:6qcAAOSwAa5alFDo
  17. Yes there is, Bill. The minimum size is nil, nada, no bass amp at all. Just a preamp pedal DI'd into the PA. I suspect that is not what this topic is really about though.
  18. It's ages since I last saw School Of Rock.
  19. Unusually, I have to disagree with Chris. I do notice when strings are more or less compliant (or floppy, if you prefer) and I really hate a floppy low B. On my Thunderbird (Mike Lull T5) I have a 4-string set of LaBella plus a low B by GHS which feels rather tauter. It means four of my skills are red and one is black, but at least I never pick up someone else's T5 at the end of a gig ...
  20. I've had to give that stuff up. I sneezed something rotten when I tried to snort it.
  21. If you could send me a pattern, I'm sure I can find the wool.
  22. Yup, I had that going with Clarky for about five years. There were basses we sold to each other two, and even three, times.
  23. But that colour will either strike you as being hot as mustard, or it will drive you bananas. Personally, I think it's bilious.
  24. I'll see your fake non-Hofner with lousy house-paint refin, and raise you a genuine Hofner with lousy house-paint refin: http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/library/Basses CURRENT/Hofner 500 2 Psychedelic 1968 CURRENT
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