Happy Jack

Now Mark, I've warned you about this sort of thing before. [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Just%20Stuff/Sundry/2398340057_2470917cf1_zps57056e16.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Just%20Stuff/Sundry/2398340057_2470917cf1_zps57056e16.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Just keep him off the lacquer for God's sake ...

You have no soul ...

Damned right! I was BORN rockist mate ...

[quote name='Treb' timestamp='1503571071' post='3359239'] Fender Roscoe Beck bass. IIRC a Bill Lawrence pickup design. [/quote] Yup, good call that. [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20SOLD/Fender%20Roscoe%20Beck%20V%202006%20SOLD/DSCF3606.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20SOLD/Fender%20Roscoe%20Beck%20V%202006%20SOLD/DSCF3606.jpg[/IMG][/URL] I've had two of these and they are lovely basses ... just WAY too heavy! I can't think of any others though.

Not sure whether this is tongue in cheek but, just in case you're serious, your only real hope of putting together something like this is to combine (i) a really sh*t-hot band with (ii) a really sh*t-hot agent. I've been playing pub gigs in London with covers bands for years ... they are NOT easy to get, especially if you're based 200 miles away! London is a big place, yes, with lots of venues, yes, but it also has (probably) as many bands as the rest of the country put together. Blue touchpaper lit ... stands well back to admire the fireworks ...

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[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1503569816' post='3359225'] Skream! - Skream - 2006 Track: Dutch Flowerz - according to ETjr, all you need to know in slightly over four minutes ..... [media]http://youtu.be/yBv4kWsi4TE[/media] [/quote] If that's all ET jr. needs to know, then he may be asking the wrong questions ...

[quote name='Treb' timestamp='1503507794' post='3358825'] The marketplace [i]is[/i] filled with such basses. On a P and a J bass the strings run between the pole pieces. Same idea executed by Leo years before the Old Smoothie. [/quote] Yes, but each string runs between a PAIR of pole pieces. [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/Fender%20Precision%201966%20CURRENT/DSCF4281.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20CURRENT/Fender%20Precision%201966%20CURRENT/DSCF4281.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Where pairs are not being used, then each string passes directly over one of the pole pieces. [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/Mosrite%20The%20Ventures%201965/NBD_edited%2010_zpsb6zddgng.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20CURRENT/Mosrite%20The%20Ventures%201965/NBD_edited%2010_zpsb6zddgng.jpg[/IMG][/URL] This Old Smoothie thingy shares five pole pieces between four strings, which is apparently sufficiently radical for Sterling to wax lyrical about it. So why has no one else done the same thing?

I like that a lot, and it has a few design thingies that other manufacturers might want to think about, but those strings would have to go straight away. And despite the fact that I speak no Japanese, that was one of the best and most informative demos I've seen of a new bass. Seriously, when was the last time you saw a reviewer stand up to show you how the bass balances on the strap? I also liked the fact that the reviewer didn't devote most of the playtime to the usual slapfest w***ery that these videos are so prone to. Much of the time, he was actually playing proper basslines that you could actually play in in actual band at an actual gig. Mind you, despite speaking no Japanese I was still able to recognise "original design", "two-piece", "P/J", "bass", "sound check", and a number of other terms.

Dunno, never heard of them. Post a link, why dontcha?

Old car stereotypes die slowly, don't they? I know exactly what you mean about Alfas, but in my case it's all based on (unhappy) memories from the 80s.

Leave a thread for 24 hours and what do you come back to? Recommendations for 21st Century music include Leonard Cohen. Tributes to the 'Now' series of compilations. Every time I think about that, I hear Brian Glover's voiceover from way back when. http://youtu.be/quupYqZDQBg And no one recommending drum'n'bass.

That Tricky Audio stuff is seriously lush.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1503481663' post='3358530'] I think the idea is, we all have favourite or inspirational players, so name 5 albums that you think epitomise great bass playing. [/quote] I do get that this is supposed to be a fun thing, and not to be taken too seriously, but I'd be quite concerned if anyone actually followed that advice. I can't think of a faster way to discourage a newbie on bass than by pointing him/her at full fat Jaco Pastorius or at Marcus Miller in "look at me! look at me!" mode. If one of my kids genuinely wanted me to recommend some of my favourite bass work to help them get started, I'd just say two words: Duck Dunn.

Is that because of the horn?

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1503477124' post='3358476'] If I'd have listened to my Dad I would have ended up listening to Sabbath, Zep, Deep Purple, Rush and Yes. I ignored him and listed to Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth and RATM! [/quote] Your Dad was right ...

My favourite rig for DB gigs is an Aguilar TH350 into a Barefaced OneTen. The whole thing, complete with cables etc., fits into a standard cajon bag which I can wear as a backpack while towing my DB behind me. This rig does NOT sound as good as my Bass Tank doubling amp, or as some of the glorious amps & combos at the Double Bass Bash earlier this year, but it combines extreme portability (it's far lighter than most of my rigs) with being very sound-engineer-friendly where I'm going through the PA (excellent DI and very high-quality backline). If the slight drop in quality of reproduction of "that DB sound" worries me, then I simply add a Fishman Plat Pro pedal to the rig.

[quote name='Steve Browning' timestamp='1503474858' post='3358447'] My eldest daughter started off wanting to play Roundabout and I didn't even like Yes. [/quote] My point.

[quote name='Steve Browning' timestamp='1503475148' post='3358451'] I'm thinking maybe just Jack from now on. [/quote] That could have been phrased better ...

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1503423022' post='3358125'] It's easier to just let Sterling explain.... [media]http://youtu.be/R2ZRWzEBIzE[/media] [/quote] What a dreadful piece of PR puffery, every word of it scripted, vomit-inducing background music, heart-warming tales of doing good for the benefit of hard-working musicians just trying to feed their families ... euch! And if the 5-pole idea for a 4-string bass is such a great idea, and was known about 40 years ago ... erm ... why is the marketplace not filled with such basses? All a bit sad given that it's clearly a very nice bass, though seriously over-priced.

[quote name='rodney72a' timestamp='1503371033' post='3357633'] Great basses, I have two in the Chocolate Burst finish. The Butterscotch colour looks ace though! [/quote] The Chocolate would go well with the Butterscotch, and adding a Cherry burst would really take it up a level. I'd steer clear of introducing Mint to the mix though.

How bizarre is all this? I get the impression that a number of posters on this thread don't actually have children. The only answer that will actually get you anywhere is, "What/who do you like listening to? Fine, play along with that then." If I'd asked my father what to listen to if I wanted to hear great basslines, I'd have spent the next 20 years listening exclusively to Glenn Miller and Frank Sinatra. Your kids don't want to listen to "your" music. That's part of being your kids.