Happy Jack

Hmmmmm. It's hardly entry level so it needs a buyer with some serious PA needs. A rig built around Peavey and Behringer is not top-line stuff and pre-owned PA kit is always suspect. I think he'll struggle to get anywhere near £2000.

Just get rid of that beard and all the grey hair and you could pass for 49 ...

Yup.

[quote name='Jwlkr1991' timestamp='1471000251' post='3109883'] Now im no expert but I pretty sure there isn't any lava flows on mount vesuvius... etna maybe but not versuvius. [/quote][quote name='Jwlkr1991' timestamp='1471000251' post='3109883'] Now im no expert but I pretty sure there isn't any lava flows on mount vesuvius... etna maybe but not versuvius. [/quote] Good call.

Don't know how many of you remember Chris Bryant Music, the big shop on the corner of Charing X Rd with the orange signs? Those signs now read "Wunjos" and the shop is being refurbed right now ...

[quote name='Dave Vader' timestamp='1470913311' post='3109298'] I love you all- really - thanks. There was an early draft with a chapter involving a bass forum that might seem eerily familiar, but it got cut to a paragraph, and is only a glancing mention now. I did nick some horror stories off here and some other forums though - if you recognise yours give me a shout and I'll give you the credit. [/quote] Gotta tell you, even without that early draft the first couple of chapters contain enough Basschat references to qualify as 'eerie' ... I've certainly had a couple of belly laughs so far.

Not an eBay listing, but I had the pleasure of playing a Migma StarBass at lunchtime. https://www.wunjoguitars.com/shop/bass-guitars/migma-meister-starbass-60sused No truss rod and the neck is somewhat banana'd, with the bridge already as high as it will go, but still a very cool bass and sounding excellent. Looks a lot lighter than it is. Bit like picking up a Hofner Contemporary bass, with the hollow body lightness offset by a bloody great chunk of wood running down the middle of the body.

That has to be tongue-in-cheek, surely? I read it with a grin on my face, never occurred to me it might be serious. And don't call me Shirley. Edit: See also https://www.talkbass.com/threads/is-this-guy-for-real.1237982/

Is this original writing, or just "an interpretation"? I'll take this on holiday with me tomorrow ...

Absolutely love this ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-37024716

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Nice forensics.

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1470661640' post='3107416'] ... and you should be able to buy a seat for it as long as it's lighter and no larger than the average American 10-year-old. [/quote] Well that's pretty much every DB ever built that will easily pass that rule! ps: Was that the wholly inappropriate national stereotype you had in mind?

Delta blues anyone? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1975-Precision-Bass-by-DELTA-Vintage-Japan-crafted-46-years-ago-GREAT-JVGuitars-/201629464627 Looking at the quality of that rosewood fretboard, and thinking about a couple of 70s JapCrap Precisions I've had, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that this bass is a beauty. Particularly taken with that tort p/g too, in a rather superficial sort of way ...

It's been in storage for years, Mick. Almost certainly the bear has lost his chops by now ...

My solution uses rackmount gear. [color=#0000ff][b]Bass --> DI box --> XLR balanced signal --> Bass pre-amp --> Power amp channel #1 --> Bass cab #1[/b][/color] [color=#0000ff][b]AND[/b][/color] [color=#0000ff][b]Bass --> DI box --> 1/4" unbalanced signal --> Pedal board --> Power amp channel #2 --> Bass cab #2[/b][/color] For the avoidance of doubt, that's only ONE bass and ONE DI box, using that DI box as my signal splitter. Obviously the DI box can be on the pedal board without actually being part of that signal chain. Note that the bass pre-amp does not have to be a rackmounted Demeter or Avalon unit ... it could just as easily be a Sansamp or a Dave Hall pedal. I'm lucky enough to have some very good quality kit, so the only really weak parts of the entire chain are the cables, especially the patches. Having said which, I'm not exactly recording [i]Dark Side Of The Moon[/i] so I doubt anyone (including me) would ever notice.

Were Travel Elliot the lightweight arm of the company? [size=4] [/size]

Does that mean that there are sixteen people attending, or eight people attending twice?

They're not extinct ... there's a bunch of them nesting in the trees in my garden. It's a matter of perspective.

Well in the spirit of the 21st Century, I can't help feeling that the Inner Sanctum should only be accessible with a discreet (not that one!) key fob. After all, everything else has gone wireless.

And I've lost my key ...

Wow! Is that one of the new [color=#0000ff][size=4][b][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Exquisite Burning Fire Style Electric Bass Guitar Blue[/font][/b][/size][/color] instruments I've heard so much about?

Excellent advice.

Having got started by playing vintage Hofners, I no longer worry about what type of tuner has been fitted. Just so long as I can tune the bass ...