Happy Jack

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.

[quote name='Lord Sausage' timestamp='1450716112' post='2935155'] I don't know about that. Here are some of my song titles Man hippo Put it in the tossbank Beastiality Bacon butty Do the Fish Steve Christie is a media man and so is Linda lesbian Bombers on benefits Degeneration of the penis Fish special [/quote] One of those has already been done ... [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Other%20music%20related/Great%20Album%20Covers/Bestiality_zpsxh2kmxyw.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Other%20music%20related/Great%20Album%20Covers/Bestiality_zpsxh2kmxyw.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Alternatively, you could adapt my suggestion for a band-name generator from a few months back, and just use Basschat topic titles as song titles: [list] [*]Why did you start? [*]I must be getting old [*]Scooped tone [*]Credit where credit is due [*]Shivers down your spine [*]You'll never perform [/list] etc.

I think it's a bit unfair not to give recognition to your PF500; a more considerate amp would be hard to imagine ... not only did it break down at a rehearsal rather than at a gig, but it also did so on a Saturday morning and gave you the whole afternoon to organise a replacement. Ampeg deserve to be legendary for their customer support.

All you need to do is to take your original song title or band name and convert it into business guff. To get you started, here's the Financial Times (no, really, have a look): https://ig.ft.com/sites/guffipedia/ So if you want to start a band called The Cars, and you can see that there might be some issues, you could instead call yourselves [i]The Sustainable Mobility Solutions[/i] (Toyota, 2010). For song titles you could just go for obscurity and make them mean what you want to mean: [i]Move The Planet A Little Closer To The Future [/i](Cisco Systems, 2012) [i]Robustify Learnability [/i](US Federal Reserve, 2006) [i]Go-Forward Scenario [/i](AOL, 2014) But it's worth bearing in mind that a newly-written song can also be viewed as a [i]Multi-Dimensional Communication Scaffold [/i](Circus Street, 2014).

http://uk.tixuz.com/vehicles/mercedes-benz/mercedes-benz-vito-3-0-cdi-dualiner-lwb/7729093?trv_cid=f70d0fd721885ae91bd11920502627019ccc04d7&utm_source=Trovit&utm_medium=CPC&utm_campaign=Reino_Unido-Autos Don't forget to scroll down!

In all fairness, he has a great user name ...

So what you're saying is, his amp now needs a front brake?