Happy Jack

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1439293739' post='2841574'] Neither are massively groundbreaking ... [/quote] I'm glad to see you haven't lost your facility with extreme [i][b]litotes[/b][/i].

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1439297803' post='2841628'] They'd be better off making their band 'come alive' by playing something other than bloody blues rock. [/quote] Well it worked for Peter Frampton ...

One of the YouTube links that this clip offers is to Kate performing a song called Smoke on electric bass. Not that great a song IMHO but what caught my eye was the bass she plays on that clip ... one of the rarest of vintage Hofner semi-acoustic hollow-bodies. Sadly, the bass is quite inaudible in the mix.

Any instrument with more knobs & switches than strings.

[quote name='bassman7755' timestamp='1439228574' post='2841082'] The beatles were a statistical anomaly, kind of inverse black swan, four people each with the talent to write enduring hit songs by the bucketload in the same band. [/quote] I'll take second to no man in my admiration of The Beatles, but I simply cannot imagine which bucket load of enduring hit songs was written by Ringo.

Well if a bored guitarist would be good enough for the gig, just imagine what a bored bass player could do ...

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Deliberately ran my transmitter dry at Saturday's gig. I'd had a single bar on the r/h side of the display for a couple of hours, and I wanted to know what happened when the batteries finally died. I could have done this at a rehearsal, of course, but where's the fun in that? Penultimate song of the second set (the Admiral Nelson in Whitton is a 3-setter finishing at midnight) and I was singing the second verse of Jumping Jack Flash when the sound of my bass started farting and cutting out. I kept going for a few bars in case it came back (temporarily) but it simply got worse. I'd already laid out a cable beforehand, ready for when it happened, so I dropped out for two bars - still singing - while unplugging the wireless and going cabled. In truth, it wasn't much of a mystery that needed solving but I've had battery-powered units go dry in several different ways and I always like to know what happens.

I'd just add the other two Barefaced cabs!

Yup.

In all fairness, the top box there is actually the band's PA ...

God didn't make the Billy Green Apples, And it don't rain in Indianapolis in the summer time ...

Do you fancy a shave?

I doubt he'd get out of bed for as little as $64,000.

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Presumably composing texts doesn't count, no matter how well-crafted?

Just be grateful he wasn't talking about ordering a Rickenbacker ...

You've probably mis-read Billy Sheehan ...

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[quote name='leftybassman392' timestamp='1438858248' post='2838039'] Not yet he wasn't! [/quote] Wikipaedia begs to differ ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead

I thought George Martin played the drums on that album? And keyboards, of course. And brass and woodwind. And probably some guitar. In fact, I don't think The Beatles were much involved, especially seeing as Paul was dead anyway.

... walking on sunshine is worth $10m. Given the weather so far this summer, they're probably right.

You're never too old to discover "clickbait" ...

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1438809981' post='2837684'] I recall seeing a page about a bowed electric "upright" ... [/quote] Maybe the neck was bowed because of the metal strings.