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Not sure it's entirely relevant to arthritis in a finger, but here it is anyway.
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264715355204?itmmeta=01HYV87MVDCYWRQKTVFKF04Y83&hash=item3da243c444:g:N7cAAOSwpPleqade&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA0KLQOVGnJcP58Bk4HTsX7xSTD1gKN%2BaI%2F%2B3zpzVUZlFy6gpcStPA44C1TYa1UpmPm6IEFzjiOUGixX10IhVZVXy1Cmi6v3jjJ1UklTRZxXppYWa%2BbXydJMD6X6j9bSFJuBxex5AVnGTkcbGqboinWES5RCLOLKghIlSKn9S4T5K2w8dQuj5TuklFOONY7iGrE%2BQXxgDv3crm1%2B8COznS8nts2Z0ZXMmOY5UySXg2fxVSxBG4EvIfBMYv5vY5yqysBZMoIPcsJqrmfRMIWO7vbnM%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR-LNnuj2Yw
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Actually, I have a stool just like that ...
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Basslab Standard VI - my wish to track it down
Happy Jack replied to Chris2112's topic in Bass Guitars
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Outstanding work, Pete. Not only had i not seen it, but it didn't even bloody come up in my saved eBay Search which was supposed to alert me the second something like this was posted! I owe you lunch. 😎
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... and we don't do requests. If someone wants us to play a specific song (Dancing Queen, Summer Of 69, Do You Wanna Touch Me) we always say that we play what's in our setlist. End of. Except that this was a private party in a remote village up in the hills (seriously) and they wanted us to play Brown Sugar. So we explained that we'd stopped playing that song around the time of Covid because it was Politically Incorrect. So they explained exactly where we could shove Political Correctness. So we played the song for the first time in well over four years, and obviously with no rehearsal or refresher. Nailed it. 😎 We may do it again ...
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She was there at the start of my digital wireless PA experience and stood by me through thick and thin. We had many happy hours together at gigs around London, laughing and making sweet music together. But then she discovered that I'd been seen with a younger model (a Soundcraft Ui-24) and things could never be the same after that. I'm aware that these sell for (IMHO) silly money on eBay and - quite frankly - I don't really understand why. So I'm listing it here for a couple of weeks at what seems to me to be a more sensible price and if she don't sell then I'll turn to eBay. But wait! There's more! Offer me £300 instead and I'll sell you the whole kit'n'caboodle. Starting with this router, already paired with the mixer (which will save you endless hours of grief and frustration - don't ask me how I know). Moving on swiftly to include this Phonic IEC power distribution module. Sadly, the pretty lights to show you how good the voltage is no longer light up, but it works fine for distributing power. And as if that isn't enough, I'll include the Gator case at no extra charge.
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Anyway, shouldn't this be the 210th question about Barefaced cabs rather than the 210st?
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Gotta get me one of them there refins ...
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https://americana-uk.com/interview-ralph-brookfield-on-the-trail-of-americana-music I played bass for Ralph for years - in fact he was the guy who persuaded me to learn to play DB precisely so that I could accompany him. Some time after I left his band (King Ralph) he brought out this book. It's not a coffee table jobby or a piece of "rock journalism", it's a pretty serious attempt to work out WTF this music really is. After a couple of hundred pages I was no wiser, and I rather suspect that's also true of Ralph. 😉 Final analysis = Americana means precisely whatever you want it to.
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Are 2" woodscrews involved at all?
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Are short scale basses really as bad as they say?
Happy Jack replied to Cheeto726's topic in General Discussion
There are a lot of brain-dead clowns on the internet ... sounds like you've stumbled across a few. As to the hopeless failed musicians who can't find a better job than working in music stores, don't get me started. Start by Googling famous bass players who used short-scale basses, then try to convince yourself that Paul McCartney would voluntarily play a POS instrument. Good luck with that. In anything to do with music you should always ignore the opinions of others (including mine, of course) and try using your ears. Even when they're the opinions of experienced musicians who you respect, ignore them - they aren't you and they don't hear what you hear. If you like the sound of a bass and the way it plays, then how much you paid for it, what it says on the headstock, what the scale length is, whether it's active or passive, uses flats or rounds, all that stuff is largely irrelevant. What matters is that you're playing it and you like it. If you play with others (in a band, jamming, whatever) then do remember that nobody else in the room gives a damn what you're playing. "It's just a bass, right?"- 55 replies
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Bloody consumer electronics ... almost certainly cheaper to replace than to investigate / repair / fail again.
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Define "failed". The last time one of our subs failed, it completely failed to power up when switched on. We later discovered that the venue had a defective 13A socket built into the stage and there was nowt wrong with the sub. 🙄
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@Silvia Bluejay and I only bring the subs along to carefully-selected gigs; most of the time we just run a pair of decent 1x12 passive tops with the whole band going through them at sensible volumes. We use a pair of MarkAudio 2x10 subs at really large venues (including outdoor gigs, natch) and at the very few gigs we play where they actually demand high volumes. When using the subs we put the passive tops above and drive them from the subs' on-board power amps so although we now have to carry the subs we save on carrying separate power amps. Location is driven by practicality rather than audio perfection and these days we invariably lay the 2x10 subs flat on the ground (for stability) rather than upright as we used to (avoiding combing etc).
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Yup, I still use the Pitch Box at every gig with my covers band. It has been consistent & reliable for years now. Sound quality when detuned by a full tone is definitely 'processed', i.e. any competent bassist will recognise that something has been done to the sound, but it's unlikely the band will hear that and the audience certainly won't. The chorus effect is very reasonable but I have little need for that function. If I spent more time playing fretless then that would change. The harmoniser function is probably the weakest of the three, but also the least useful to a bass player (except perhaps as a novelty item) so no harm done.
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Thanks, but for £235 there's a fair amount of choice out there. 😂 I like the sound of the 411 fitted to my Kolstein, and they used to sell for c.£120 new. I'd quite like to source a spare for non-silly money.
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Anyone got one they could bear to part with?
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In fairness, with those singers standing in front of you, it would be odd if the audience was fixated on you. 😉
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Guitarist in my 3-piece covers band is an excellent rhythm guitarist and also plays pretty mean slide, but he's no sort of lead guitarist and it doesn't bother him. Or us. We play a wide range of pop/rock hits from the 60s/70s/80s and we just leave out the guitar solos. You'd be amazed how few people notice, even when the missing solo is allegedly 'iconic', e.g. Let's Dance.
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Don't forget @Silvia Bluejay & me for 23rd June ...
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Rolling Stone's 'Top 100 Drummists'.
Happy Jack replied to NancyJohnson's topic in General Discussion
Surely the Rolling Stones' 100 best drummers are just Charlie Watts written 100 times? Oh hang on, damn that pesky apostrophe ... -
>30 years as a Finance Director here, and I would advise very strongly against going this route unless you genuinely expect to be as successful as Taylor Swift. Technically speaking, any working band is automatically a Partnership under the 1890 Act but nobody gives a toss and I've never heard of anyone acting (i.e. sueing someone or trying to claim equal shares of band revenues) on that basis. Don't mean it ain't happened, mind. Open a 'band' bank account, however, and you open a number of doors. Very probably, no bug-eyed monsters will walk through those doors; but if the doors aren't there then there's no risk. Shared ownership of anything in band is a disaster waiting to happen. The bands I play in get paid variously through all sorts of channels ... cash, Concur, Opus, etc. Whichever person can be bothered to deal with it collects the money and then distributes it later, usually (but not necessarily) as cash. If you can't trust one of your bandmates to give you your £50 from playing the Dog & Duck last week, then you should probably reconsider who you play with. 🤨
