Happy Jack

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When something looks too good to be true, it's usually a cliche.

[quote name='chrisanthony1211' timestamp='1503251241' post='3356708'] Smooth hound doesn't seem to like using a battery pack with another pedal, generates a load of noise.... [/quote] A-ha! There was me thinking that my Smoothhound just didn't like the battery pack ... it never occurred to me to try it with a battery pack on its own. Might have a play with that later.

Cheers Lozz - it wouldn't take much for you to learn, y'know.

Wingbass + sand + salt spray = Happiness? I don't think so.

We're putting together (or trying to) a classic rock'n'roll band, either a 3-piece or if we can find a decent pianist a 4-piece. The aim is to play the original music ... Chuck, Elvis, Buddy, Little Richard, you get the picture ([size=2][i]yes, we see[/i][/size]). What would be great is to find a pianist who actually enjoys playing this stuff, and playing it properly. It's always good if everyone in a band can sing, do BVs, contribute harmonies, but it's not actually essential. We're based in NW London - Harrow & Kilburn.

We're putting together (or trying to) a classic rock'n'roll band, either a 3-piece or if we can find a decent pianist a 4-piece. The aim is to play the original music ... Chuck, Elvis, Buddy, Little Richard, you get the picture ([size=2][i]yes, we see[/i][/size]). What I chiefly need right now is a guitarist who actually enjoys playing this stuff, and playing it properly. There will be no 24-bar solos played at ludicrous volume with a foot on the monitor and the face distorted into a rather sad grimace. If the song originally had a guitar solo then that's what gets played. If the song had no guitar solo then there won't be one. It's always good if everyone in a band can sing, do BVs, contribute harmonies, but it's not actually essential. We're based in NW London - Harrow & Kilburn.

Interesting how this album splits opinion so thoroughly. For me, this is easily a Top Five favourite and one of the records I tried to play along to most when I was starting on bass.

But only if you completely wreck your bass first, as far as I can see from that picture.

Ageing makes my taste buds bolder, My lunch is hot enough to solder.

Well, "know" is putting it strongly, but my reasoning is as follows. My understanding is that, broadly, to double the volume you need to increase the power by a much greater factor, perhaps as much as 10x. If I know that my rig is capable of a given (ridiculously loud) volume, but I am actually playing at a much lower volume, then I'm pretty confident that I'm using much less than half the power of my amp. My method of testing this is to count the number of amps that I have managed to blow up so far. By a bizarre coincidence, it turns out to be exactly the same number as the number of bass strings I have snapped to date. Zero.

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1502908713' post='3354353'] still not heard from anybody that's hired a dep and it's not worked out for whatever reason, have they always been a success then? because I've seen them, one dep guitarist I saw used a music stand (fair enough) but was really low in the mix, when you could hear him you knew why [/quote] Well since no one else has picked up on this, I'll offer what I can. I was invited to dep a few years ago for an Elvis tribute act appearing at a private party. The line-up was built around a genuine, honest-to-God Elvis impersonator, Vegas jumpsuit era with the hair and the shades, who was a regular performer on the Elvis circuit using backing tapes. He had two guitars, bass and drums. One guitarist was a regular member of a Shadows tribute band. The other guitarist and the drummer were one half of a gigging heavy metal band. And then there was me. We had a single rehearsal in a studio somewhere down Streatham way, which didn't go particularly well, and then it was show time. That gig remains in my memory as the single worst gig I have ever been involved with in any capacity. To this day, listening to the recordings brings tears to me eyes. And that's not just because I'm laughing so much.

But with regard to all this, assuming that you're not driving your rig overly hard then does it actually "matter"? I like lots of headroom and never get anywhere near using half the power I have on tap. I don't ignore impedances completely, but I'm pretty bloody relaxed about them.

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1503040726' post='3355194'] Winner :-) [/quote] The only possible winner is Edmund Lear. There was an old man of St. Bees Who was stung in the arm by a wasp. When asked if it hurt, He replied "no it doesn't, I'm so glad it wasn't a hornet."

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1503013785' post='3355128'] Actually, it's quite neat... There once was a man from Nantucket Who kept all his cash in a bucket. But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man And as for the bucket, Nantucket [/quote] He followed the pair to Pawtucket, The man and the girl and the bucket. He said to the man "You're welcome to Nan", But as for the bucket, Pawtucket. The pair followed Paw to Manhasset Where he kept all the cash as an asset Then Nan and the man Stole the money and ran, And as for the bucket, Manhasset.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Soundtube-FP6030-BK-Sound-Focusing-Speaker-with-Clear-Parabolic-Dome/172815209758?hash=item283c96d51e%3Ag%3AumoAAOSwi-9ZjGll OK, maybe not ...

Will the price be affected if the head arrives after Brexit?

Over by about £2000, I'd say ...

Just don't go to the pub afterwards and start talking loudly about polishing your brass nut.

Bringing the bass isn't the problem. It's the articulated lorry filled with pedal boards and FX units that's the problem.

That's what Baloo thought too ...

Ode to the Unplugged A band which abandons its pluggery Can swiftly descend into thuggery. Acoustics and cajon In theory are champion, But as to rehearsal - well Buggery!

Well it's barely distinguishable from a Vigier, after all. Oh no ... wait ...

There's nothing like a bit of incentive to reach a quick decision.

So whoever bought it initially must presumably have had a very rapid change of heart?