Happy Jack

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[quote name='gareth' timestamp='1501341780' post='3344150'] Jack Cassidy [/quote] Confused ... did you mean David Cassidy or Jack Casady?

For a pub band, these things are hard to beat: https://www.thomann.de/gb/behringer_rx_1202_fx.htm Stick it in a Gator case and you have a lightweight, rugged mixer which can sit on top of any flat surface with the controls actually facing the bass player, and which provides a hard surface for all the gubbins you want next to you at a gig. I've had mine for about eight years now, it's done hundreds of gigs and never had any problem.

Electronics can have frets?

But what tone would you use for a discussion that disappears up its own fundament(al)?

Keep those pre-CBS Precisions well hidden. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40724397

This drummer is at the wrong gig.

No one except you will hear any change in tone. No one except you will care. No one will be watching you or listening to you. Unless you cock it up quite spectacularly of course. Negative? Cynical? No, not a bit of it. It's very liberating. You can concentrate on enjoying yourself. If that includes fiddling about with your tone then that's fine. It's all good. Just don't expect anyone else to be interested.

With a bit of work on your technique, you could probably get rid of that strange clicking noise.

[quote name='Treb' timestamp='1500984086' post='3341458'] There's no substitute for the real thing... [/quote] At least I'll get my washing done.

Hell's Teeth! You actually managed to listen to more than 30 seconds of that? Respect!

Or you could go way cheaper: https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/musicman-sterling-sub-ray-5-string-bass-guitar-rosewood-trans-blue

Yup, that was exactly my (badly worded) point.

I can easily understand why he chose to photograph it with a 40-year-old Instamatic.

Sounds like a very odd set-up to me. Listening to CDs or Spotify through a bass amp is going to fall some way short of high fidelity reproduction, and having 100-150W driving it means that your neighbours had better be deaf. And I can't remember ever seeing a "stereo bass amp". Try buying a small PA mixer plus a pair of small, powered PA cabs.

[quote name='OddBass65' timestamp='1500974565' post='3341362'] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGxjm67KFBA[/media] I'm a big fan of Paul Wolfe's How To Play Bass stuff ... [/quote] Ah yes, Musang Sally by Wilon Pickett. More seriously, the first bass note is played at 1:18. That's a long wait for a bass tutorial to get started. More subjectively, I absolutely hated his tone and his bass sounded slightly out of tune to me. YMMV.

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1500969065' post='3341311'] That's the thing about Bowie's music. It constantly evolved. Is Gail Ann Dorsey's version any better than Trevor Bolder's? Of course not. Is it as good as? IMHO, yes. [/quote] I'm guessing you didn't actually click on my link then ...

https://www.anglingdirect.co.uk/fishing-tackle/luggage Seriously. Fishing gear is (relatively) cheap, very rugged, and usually waterproof.

[quote name='Lazurus' timestamp='1500966948' post='3341293'] Has anyone got this in sheet form they can ping to me, would love to have a go at this one? [/quote] Just play along to it - you'll have no trouble at all with the notes or structure. The song is all about the feel.

[quote name='pete.young' timestamp='1500916995' post='3341079'] Sorry you don't like it, I thought it was pretty good. I'll be grumpy right back at ya and say that the original version was Little Willie John in 1956! Knocks Peggy Lee into a cocked hat if you ask me. [/quote] Fascinating! I always thought that song was far too hip & cool to have been written for Peggy Lee. I wasn't sorry to hear the last of Captain Smith & Pocohontas either ...

Snap! I don't 'do' Musicman basses but I tried the Sterling as a random pick in a guitar shop (PMT in Newcastle) last week and was genuinely impressed. They had the 5 hanging next to it, but I didn't try it (even though I usually play fivers) because the string spacing was too narrow for my taste.

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1500960360' post='3341267'] ... I couldn't quite pick out the run at 2:42 until I saw this guy play it.... [media]http://youtu.be/jf-eKtvZfUU[/media] [/quote] Bizarrely, I can't hear that run at all on this version. http://youtu.be/J9wV2NiKllg

I've bought the amp ...

[quote name='bassace' timestamp='1500904999' post='3340964'] Got to hear it! [/quote] Sad to relate, logistic problems mean that I won't be playing my DB but will instead be using my Takamine TB10. I'm still hoping to get it right, mind ... [quote name='Staggering on' timestamp='1500909984' post='3341009'] And I will be playing it at The Raven and Republic (restaurant/music venue) in North Bay Ontario Canada on Wednesday as part of their jazz night.I'll be using my Yamaha SLB200 EUB but will not be changing keys(singer's choice).Great song for bass and the Peggy Lee version has a simpler bass line than some(a lesson here?) and is at a faster tempo than most people expect, she keeps it moving. I'll be watching for that video bluejay. [/quote] And I hope you'll post some of your own ... it's so easy to do acceptable video these days that it would be a shame not to.