Happy Jack

A weak excuse ...

Switch it off, then switch it on again. Works for me.

But nobody except you will ever notice ...

Seeing as it's Wimbledon week, here's our encore from our debut gig at the Prince of Wales, opposite Centre Court, last Saturday. http://youtu.be/8lNJTap2Xbo

Why on earth would you touch the controls on a bass? Set and forget, guys, set and forget.

Seems like a pretty modest price. Not being of the guitar persuasion, it's of no interest to me anyway. But what would really kill it would be the weight. Which the vendor doesn't mention, of course.

I've used the custom ACS plugs for years. The filters are very easily swopped, so I have a set of 15db and a set of 25db for when things get really loud. The beauty of these things is that wearing them is like hearing what everyone else hears, but with the volume control turned down. They don't muffle or distort the sound. Can I hear nuances that otherwise I'd miss? Well ... yes, but only in the sense that you can always hear more when listening at 'sensible' volume levels. Every guitarist knows that enough volume will hide even the grossest mistakes. I wear them because I already suffer from tinnitus and I really can't stand the idea of going deaf. To repeat something that has been said here many times, ACS custom plugs are NOT cheap. But if your hearing is worth less than £200 then you might want to think that through again.

And of course it's not just Class D. I played the Ealing Beer Festival a few years back, using my Matamp all-valve head. At 11pm they wanted all the punters to start going home so they turned on all the floodlights. The sudden draw on the (huge) generator caused my amp to cut out instantly and it was over a minute before I could get it back up and running. The heart of our PA was a Powersoft Digam solid state power amp which barely even noticed the interruption!

[quote name='mrtcat' timestamp='1498589037' post='3325752'] I used a J&D Jazz that i paid £65 for at a wedding in Italy on Friday. [/quote] Good thing that the guy at the wedding wanted to sell his bass ...

[quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1498809837' post='3327144'] That does seem to me what they're saying over at the Lakland Owners Group, Plek is for Skylines, all US are hand fretted. Si [/quote] Which leaves me hopelessly confused. I thought that the Plek process gave unbeatable results?

[quote name='funkgod' timestamp='1498821151' post='3327293'] Hello all, when i was playing, in my car chase, Acidjazz, funk band back in the day, we did alot of tv theme tunes, new avengers 2001 starsky and hutch [/quote] Your band used to play Also Sprach Zarathustra? Respect.

I am, I am ... Tottenham Court Road.

Hot on the heels of discovering that the latest round of security leaks in the USA was by a lady named [color=#404040][font=Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Reality Leigh Winner, it now seems that one of Cardinal Pell's sex-abuse accusers is Lyndon Monument.[/font][/color] [color=#404040][font=Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Presumably his older brother is named 'Washington'?[/font][/color]

Fair enough Raj, but it looks like a pretty non-reversible mod!

Really? How weird is that? I thought that being Plek'd was a pretty high-end thing to do to a bass.

Yup. Ultimately it was the weight that ended my love affair with Wals. I've had four and would dearly love to still have them all ... but I just never gigged them. The Mk.III 5-string weighed 5Kg!

I came across this lovely old thing (c. 1927) at Hobgoblin in the West End. [attachment=248004:2017-06-27 12.41.16.jpg] [attachment=248005:2017-06-27 12.41.29.jpg] That bizarre crosspiece is designed to allow you to support your forearm whilst picking. Not quite as shiny as the ashtray on a Precision, but you get the general drift.

You've been Plek'd ...

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Don't let Norman borrow your lead! He finishes every gig by unplugging and then dropping his lead into a large puddle of sweat ... Jealous? Me? Have a great gig.

I'd want to know why the speaker is suspicious. Have you been up to something?

The band was the two brothers plus the drummer. Everyone else was hired in. Note that you can't see the orchestra either ...

I've spent 40 years singing along to this song, so busy with the singing that I never really thought to listen to the bass line being played. http://youtu.be/7kf3Hyxl67g Strewth! Who is that guy and what's he on? From the busy-ness of it, and a vague similarity to [i]Burning Love[/i] (Elvis version) I guessed that it might be Emory Gordy Jr. According to a very limited Wikipaedia entry about the album, the bass player in question is Daryl Runswick. According to Google, he's an English musician/composer whose own Wiki entry doesn't mention this song or the album it's from. Anyone know anything about it?

Last time I looked, it was the Washington Post that was dying slowly ...

What would make the knobs from a Jazz easy to distinguish from those on the Mesa ... which look an awful lot like the knobs from a Jazz?