Happy Jack

And, by a weird coincidence, I shall be playing Fever (complete with key changes) at the Ealing Jazz Festival on Saturday.

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/308818-shiny/

In fairness, for £3750 I'd be disappointed if it was dirty.

Is that Nigel's old one? (Xlddx for those who remember him.)

[quote name='Buzzy' timestamp='1499777129' post='3333514'] We're mainly in Kent and South East London, but if you know of any venues in your manor let me know. Here's a couple of clips : [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1WL_f834DY&feature=youtu.be"]https://www.youtube....eature=youtu.be[/url] [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijba_0_muLg&feature=youtu.be"]https://www.youtube....eature=youtu.be[/url] [/quote] More to the point, how do you get your strings to follow the curve in the neck of of your bass? Is this a variant on fanned frets?

What are these "mistakes" of which you speak? Just play it that way twice. Then it's deliberate. Or blame the drummer. Whatever. [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Just%20Stuff/Music%20and%20Musicians/post-25599-0-34843200-1381005057_th_zpsc004aaac.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Just%20Stuff/Music%20and%20Musicians/post-25599-0-34843200-1381005057_th_zpsc004aaac.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

That guy really, [i][b]really [/b][/i]needs to steer clear of cocaine ...

[quote name='anzoid' timestamp='1499721223' post='3333193'] I admit I did wonder whether I would see Happy Jack there, but as I have no idea what he looks like without the Spiderman costume, I wouldn't have known anyway... [/quote] I only get in there about once a month these days ... working much further away than I used to. I'm 6'6" tall with a full head of hair, built like a tank and scarily handsome, charming, witty, an awesomely talented bass player, and a compulsive liar. Plus I always wear my Spiderman costume when I'm in the West End. I feel it helps me to blend in.

https://www.proguarduk.co.uk/ Featuring the immortal paragraph: [color=#616161]Now available from ProGuard an increasing selection of generic earplugs including our extremely popular Noizezz range, the Lin-Ear and Ultra Lin-Ear products designed for musicians, DJs, concertgoers and now available our new BikerPlugz and ShooterPlugz[/color] Don't you just love crap marketing-speak when it's obsessed with the letter Z?

At that price, it's hardly surprising.

Confucius, he say, there are two types of fool. One says: This is old, so it's good. The other says: This is new, so it's better.

[URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20SOLD/Shuker%20Horn%202010%20SOLD/IMG_6501.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20SOLD/Shuker%20Horn%202010%20SOLD/IMG_6501.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Bwahahahahaha!!! It's in Japan. And they want $886 for it? What's Japanese for "you're taking the piss, mate"?

I picked up a bass for the first time on my 49th birthday. Then I settled down with a copy of http://stuartclayton.com/books/crash-course-bass/ Stuart is also a Basschatter, and this book assumes that you are starting from no knowledge at all. After a couple of months, I thought it made sense to start spending money on lessons to build on what I'd learned from the book. Six months in, I started jamming with a guitarist. Nine months and I was attending local jam sessions. I joined my first band 18 months after starting. I now play 40/50 gigs a year with several different bands, on both electric bass and double bass. I am not 'special', I didn't already play guitar, I have never studied music. I wish I had started as young as 40!

No use to me ... I already have three of those.

https://www.andertons.co.uk/p/302-0631-A/bass-amp-heads/gallien-krueger-mb-200-bass-head?LGWCODE=3020631A;56375;6335&gclid=CjwKEAjw4vzKBRCt9Zmg8f2blgESJADN5fDggZCWqRkpV0hEOiO0AVAq7fdWSQhlPqr4GV7KePNqaxoCTtbw_wcB About the size of a large paperback, and weighs about the same. If you're planning to carry a backup to all of your gigs, then you want it light ...

As a well-known [i]fanboi [/i]of these basses here on Basschat, I have to say that the 5-string was the only one that just didn't do it for me. Maybe it was a string selection issue, but I found the low B strangely flabby.

You do realise that it's not actually a bass from the 1950s?

I had an identical bass 7/8 years ago (the one that Nick Beggs played on Too Shy, though I didn't know it at the time) which I bought from Silverfoxnik in need of a major restoration job. I sold it a year later (to Clarky) for £2000 IIRC which just about covered the purchase price and the restoration. Maybe I should have kept it ... [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20SOLD/Wal%20Pro%20IIe%201978%20SOLD/100_0171.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20SOLD/Wal%20Pro%20IIe%201978%20SOLD/100_0171.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

[quote name='davegriffiths91' timestamp='1499162020' post='3329563'] Band I play with likes to play the "original" version of songs. When things have been sampled etc people know the melody but often think we have re-arranged the tune. Examples - Labi Siffri - I Got The Anne Robinson - You Did It Max Romeo - Chase The Devil Etc etc [/quote] [quote name='blue' timestamp='1499243647' post='3330168'] Getting older is really tough. I've never heard of any of those artists you listed. I'll YouTube them. Blue [/quote] [quote name='davegriffiths91' timestamp='1499248061' post='3330218'] They are all old! [/quote] Well Labi Siffre is but you're not going to find him if you spell his name wrong. As for Anne Robinson, I quite liked her [i]Points Of View[/i] period but she went right off the rails with [i]The Weakest Link[/i].

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Anygig-AGB-Portable-34-Full-Scale-Length-Right-Hand-4-String-Bass-Guitar-Black/182617521251?_trksid=p5411.c100167.m2940&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140131123730%26meid%3Dfcfec879270e496a951b2e6e6b129ebb%26pid%3D100167%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D222563875003

Some very odd replies here. The main reason is simply that people's vocal ranges vary hugely. Think Paul Robeson and Robert Plant. I'm a natural baritone. I have a rather unexciting mid-ranged voice. Loads of rock songs are pitched far higher than my voice will go, because they're designed to be sung by tenors like Robert Plant and Bruce Dickinson. Plenty of songs are pitched way lower than my voice will go, because they're designed to be sung by Barry White. I suppose I could sing (a version of) Stairway To Heaven if I really felt like it, but never in the original key. That's not because I'm lazy (I'm not) or have an untrained voice (10 years' choral work in a bunch of choirs, thank you very much). It's more a matter of physiology and, y'know, yer actual physics and that.

You get me a gig at the Royal Festival Hall and I promise I'll use the controls on my bass wisely.