Happy Jack

Jon Shuker is great but, in fairness, you specified a black bass. Now had you specified a primary colour, it would have gone tits up.

How are you getting on with P5 Nick?

I just did a straight swop of my bass strung with LaBella FLs for his bass strung with TI flats - interesting. I've not played the TI strings before and I immediately liked them, very comfortable under the fingers, pleasant tone. But my fingers are attuned to playing FLs and I do like to dig in ... my own mother would never describe my technique as "subtle". The result is that I play the TIs too hard. That's hardly the fault of the strings, so I need to work on remembering to back off a little when playing that bass. Swopping out the strings is not on the To Do list.

Buggrit buggrit, millennium hand and shrimp.

[quote name='Schnozzalee' timestamp='1450869350' post='2936533'] I miss my Sue Ryder P [/quote] How about a Paul Ryder instead? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1964-FENDER-JAZZ-BASS-KILLER-SOUNDING-EX-HAPPY-MONDAYS-PAUL-RYDER-/321954470283?hash=item4af5fb598b:g:KGcAAOSwI-BWMcTq Oh damn! It's a Jazz ...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Guiter-/252220057392?hash=item3ab97ca730:g:AscAAOSw1S9WduO~

No, they were gentry.

No love for Sue Ryder then?

[quote name='EliasMooseblaster' timestamp='1450866598' post='2936490'] Must admit I'd always thought even the civil war was fought between two different factions of the aristocracy ... [/quote] The two factions were figure-headed by the aristocracy because, well, that's how things were, and the aristocracy continued to provide the "senior management" right up to WW1. But the country was effectively ruled by the House of Commons, not by the House of Lords, and the Lords knew better than to challenge the Commons ... it was the Commons that controlled the money you see. It was all helped by another huge hidden advantage that England had, which was that only the heir to a nobleman was himself a nobleman. All other offspring were gentry, and as such they gave the Middle Class a breeding and status that was denied in countries such as France where every child of a nobleman was also noble.

[quote name='EliasMooseblaster' timestamp='1450862780' post='2936438'] The Industrial Revolution is usually cited as the point at which this Middle Class started to grow, and become much more influential. At some point during the 20th Century, it became quite clear that these three strata were inadequate to describe all the different echelons of society, particularly as very wealthy businessmen were emerging from "middle class" backgrounds, but couldn't be described as "upper class" because they had worked for their fortune. [/quote] Sorry Ralph, but I have to pick you up on that. The whole reason for England's obsession with class is that England more-or-less invented the whole concept and did so WAY before anyone else followed on. The Industrial Revolution was something that happened at different times in different places. It happened first in England (mid-18th century) largely because a substantial, wealthy, well-established Middle Class had already existed for well over a century by then, and had pretty much taken over running the country in the mid-17th century by winning a Civil War against the aristocracy. By the mid-19th century, when England's innovation was being actively copied across Europe and others were having their own Industrial Revolutions, the Middle Class in Spain, France and Germany was relatively small and politically weak. The appalling destruction of the wars of the 20th century also destroyed any chance of class becoming an obsession in those countries. Meanwhile in England the class structure which had emerged in the 1640s sailed sublimely on, virtually untouched by three centuries of upheaval and becoming progressively more and more ingrained. [/lecture]

What's a haram?

A good Man of the lasting kind, certainly.

Judging from what I've seen here on Basschat, this would be the bastard lovechild of a Maruszczyk and a Limelight, retro-fitted with an ACG preamp. This year, Jazz basses are apparently much cooler than Precisions, but 4-string basses are clearly still on top. Not too sure about the colour ... diseased trees remain strangely popular. At least that spares us the annual debate as to whether a pickguard should be none-more-black or tort.

A slightly less ridiculous price is an improvement ... but it's still a ridiculous price.

There's a lot there to be modest about.

Never understood this obsession with class. I mentioned this thread to Simkins this morning (as he spread the toothpaste on my brush for me) and he said "I have always been happy to ignore my humble beginnings, M'Lord" so that seems to settle it rather. Whoops! There goes a pheasey!

He needs the fee to fund his legal action against his former bandmates ...

OK, so it's been done before, but have you considered:[list=1] [*]Song #1 [*]Song #2 [*]Song #3 [*]Song #4 [/list] ???

March 2014. This is an old thread recently resurrected.

Bwahahahaha!!! What a load of tosh. Take a really great bass, add some dreadful photographs, double the original asking price, then mention that you bought the bass as an investment. Well there's no law against it, I suppose, but I'll be astonished if he gets any interest at all.

[quote name='NickD' timestamp='1450778448' post='2935694'] As well as those mentioned above, I really get on with the Marlow Dk stuff. [/quote] This ... absolutely this. I love Scott Devine's stuff, but Marlowe DK (http://playbassnow.com/) is the guy who really floats my bass-playing boat.

Not sure it will help with the slapping, but also try learning to spell "bass".

The best bass lines to start with (regardless of genre) are for songs you already know. Browse online for compilation jazz albums and pick out songs you could sing right now, learn them first. Suggestions? Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares For Me Dusty Springfield - The Look Of Love Etc.

If you swung it hard enough while holding the neck, and then let go, I suppose it would travel a fair distance.

I'm liking the idea of the Countryman 6-string acoustic novelty planter.