Happy Jack

So if mine is a 1970s Ibanez with a sort-of Toaster pickup and a through neck, does that make it a 2338? And is a 2338b the same but with a bolt-on neck?

Always a surprise to me how much bigger a J is than a P ...

Sacre Bleu!

Threads like this really piss me off. I have a Fishman SA-220 column PA for those small, intimate gigs and I love it to bits. Every musician who has played through it has commented on how great it sounds. It works perfectly. There's nothing wrong with it. I have no need of a replacement or upgrade. Then this thread catches my eye, gets me interested in seeing how things have moved on since I bought my SA-220 a few years ago, and I discover the SA-330x with sub and mixer extension. And guess what? Now I want one. Bah!

Try it in Google Translate ...

Also, the larger gigbag you need for a Jazz will allow you to carry additional kebabs ...

It probably sounds better in Spanish. Any language that can turn [color=#006400][b]'Bye!'[/b][/color] into [color=#0000cd][b]¡Hasta la vista! [/b][/color]must have something going for it.

They seem to change more or less randomly each time you visit ...

[url="https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/showthread.php?p=31138246#post31138246"]https://www.ultimate...46#post31138246[/url] is even better.

... to a page that has now disappeared, but I just LOVED what was there instead. https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/showthread.php?p=31138246#post31138246

http://youtu.be/eoHhdrqtYho That video becomes really quite hypnotic ...

[quote name='Skybone' timestamp='1496644005' post='3312821'] Is that a GT200 you're running? Great amps, great company. [/quote] 'Tis the 100 rather than the 200, and it was a 'custom build' with assistance from tayste2000. Matamp had a complete chassis without a box, and (after some persuasion) they agreed to build for me the lightest Matamp head in captivity.

So I'm playing Walton WMC last night. I'm on a boomy wooden stage, despite my Gramma pad, running my Mike Lull Thunderbird through a Matamp into a Barefaced 610 (can't remember its name, Alex keeps changing them ) and I've ended up with the treble on max and the bass rolled right off. The TBird now sounds acceptable. Then it's time to try out my new (well, newly-purchased) Ibanez Rickenfaker. But of course I leave the controls unchanged. Silvie's camera has compressed the f***out of the outrageous bass tone but this will give you a glimpse of it. It's much clearer after 2:20 when I flicked the selector switch from Both to Bridge. http://youtu.be/JHK_cOeegRk Can a Rickenfaker give you a genuine 'clank'? Oh yes, big time.

Yes, but Howard Goodall could fart into a paper bag and it would still be a great documentary ...

Understood. But this is a link to a specialist after-market pickup, not to a bass. There comes a point where due caution becomes sheer paranoia. If John Hall wants to come after me, I'm ready. And laughing at him, especially since I just bought a gorgeous 1970s Ibanez Rickenfaker. I've actually had two very expensive and totally genuine Rickenbackers. Neither of them were as nice as the Ibanez. Mods, feel free to open a dialogue if you disagree with me.

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[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1496407943' post='3311182'] I've played a whole gig with the guitarist tuned about 20 cents sharp compared with the bass because of a tuner problem, and the only person who spotted anything was the drummer who was behind both amps and could her how appealing it sounded and kept telling us to tune up. Of course our tuners told us that we were perfectly in tune (just not with each other). [/quote] [quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1496411367' post='3311235'] How on earth can you not instantly notice that you have a string tuned to the wrong note? [/quote] Bin there. Dun that. I was playing with a Spanish singer-songwriter, experienced musician, good guy. I was on DB and I was really, really struggling with my intonation. It didn't matter how hard I concentrated, I was always off-pitch with his guitar. We played our first gig together and it was the same problem throughout. As a newbie to DB I just assumed naturally it was down to my playing. At the next rehearsal I played with a Korg Pitchblack permanently on so I KNEW I was playing the right notes, and I challenged him instead. We checked our tuners. Mine was set to 440. His was set to 432. He never came up with a convincing explanation for that ...

[quote name='T-Bay' timestamp='1496404600' post='3311120'] His reply was to make sure the beginning and end are perfectly in time, along with any whole group rests in the song and no one will notice what goes in the middle. [/quote] Troo, dat. The vast majority of punters don't hear you or what you're playing. They hear the music in their heads instead. The know how the song sounds, so that's what they hear. Unless you do something utterly catastrophic.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1496398368' post='3311047'] But Les Paul had been using multitrack recorders for many years before Sgt Pepper.... [/quote] Yup, Les Paul undeniably got there first, and in so many contexts. Unbelievable guy. But. How many people followed his lead? There were some, of course, but most pop music (by which I'd guess I mean 99%) did not go that route for the next ten years. Then the Beatles did it, and then most pop music (by which I'd guess I mean 99%) copied them. Can you see the difference?

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1496395068' post='3311009'] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN75im_us4k[/media] Fixed. I just took the "s" out of "https". Thanks but I said crossovers not mash-ups. Playing songs out of their expected genre in other words. Mash-ups, whilst being quite clever Trevor, are not something I'd spend much time with. PS; Is it me or does Rick Astley get extra stick on this forum? [/quote] I'll see your Nirvana/Astley, and raise you a Seven Nation/Eurythmics: http://youtu.be/hT5eJwgAtvY

Oh come on Dave, how can a bunch of The World's Great Drummers possibly know more than The Usual Beatle-hating Suspects here on Basschat?

[quote name='Yukimajou' timestamp='1496222283' post='3309601'] This [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3deQXzV-qTk"]You Tube video[/url] of Ray talking about Riders ... [/quote] Yes, I saw that video some time ago. I'm sure that Ray Manzarek is a lovely fella with a terrific fund of stories, but it's pretty clear that some of these stories have ... erm ... [i]improved [/i]over the years. Jerry Scheff in 1971 was a fully-trained musician on several instruments and a very experienced and highly sought-after session player. The idea that he would struggle with a two-chord bass line moving between Em and A is utterly ludicrous. How ludicrous? Well that's one of my favourite songs and one of favourite bass lines. When I first learned to play bass (not as long ago as you might think) I was playing this bassline within months of first picking up the instrument. I'm no musical prodigy, and nowhere near as talented as Jerry Scheff. I'm also not a fully-trained musician. Bizarrely, I'm not even a highly sought-after session player. Life is so unfair. As Jimi Hendrix once said, you shouldn't believe everything you find on the Internet.

[quote name='Yukimajou' timestamp='1496222283' post='3309601'] Jerry (their session bassist on all albums except the first) said that you couldn't play that and had to do some gymnastics with his fingers to play it. [/quote] Hmmmm. You've got that exactly the wrong way round. Far from playing "on all albums except the first", Jerry played on NO albums except the last. Close, though.

So it was a double divan bed? Did it have a headstock or a headboard?

Really sorry to hear that. Try buying a fretless Harley Benton bass uke from Thomann. I've routinely used one at DB gigs where there simply isn't the space for my DB. They're cheap, sound great, and actually work remarkably well as a DB substitute.