Happy Jack

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1426533063' post='2719029'] +1 on this chap (Kevin?) he's given the two new basses I've bought a great set up. You get two years unlimited set-ups on new basses, how's it work with vintage ones? [/quote] After the amount of work he had to do on this sale, and the very tight timescales he had to do it in, I'd feel really bad about going back in a year and claiming "my free set-up"!

Track down a Lakland Skyline Duck Dunn model. I promise you that you'll like it ...

Yup, this one is exactly 31" and I was trying to explain to Wunjo's that Hofners always used 30.5".

[i][color=#141823][font=Helvetica, Arial,]"... the intonation is out so that will need sorting unless, like me, you play it with a slide."[/font][/color][/i] [color=#141823][font=Helvetica, Arial,]Well that explains a lot about most slide playing ...[/font][/color]

I was 13 when that album came out ... didn't get into the Stooges until [i]Raw Power[/i] and never back-catalogued I'm afraid.

Jesus ... really? I'd never have recognised them from that pic!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1426524933' post='2718843'] (HJ that was one hell of an implies purchase!) [/quote] Where's the satisfaction to be had from impulse-buying another pick?

[quote name='1970' timestamp='1426524324' post='2718829'] Nice - I have a '65 mosrite as well! Mine's identical but in sunburst. The blue is my absolute favourite colour though. Here's why: If I had seen it before you I have no doubt it would be in my hands now. [/quote] Now I could play it cool and wait for someone else to ask who those guys are ...

It's a shortscale (31") which clearly came as a surprise to the guys in Wunjo and also to their excellent guitar tech.

This is pretty good, too, especially when he gets to the thumb extensor (about 90 seconds in). https://youtu.be/uPO-zST-7EE

Watch this, especially from about 8:30 onwards. https://youtu.be/XqBRxu21oZc

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1426430940' post='2717963'] Congratulations, outstanding purchase Sir! I was only looking at this on the Wunjo site last night thinking what a great piece it is. Any change of some sound clips? [/quote] Sound clips? Nah! Come round and try it for yourself ...

[quote name='Truckstop' timestamp='1426362109' post='2717395'] What's under the ashtray? Mutes? [/quote] Yup, the original foam as far as I can make out.

Sounds even better through a vintage WEM ... [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/Mosrite%20The%20Ventures%201965/NBD_edited%207_zpsnvgoejih.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20CURRENT/Mosrite%20The%20Ventures%201965/NBD_edited%207_zpsnvgoejih.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Did I need it? No, not really. Do I like it? Oh yes ... lots. 1965, all original, plenty of genuine play wear, no relic'ing. [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/Mosrite%20The%20Ventures%201965/NBD_edited%2011_zpse9jbkl0g.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20CURRENT/Mosrite%20The%20Ventures%201965/NBD_edited%2011_zpse9jbkl0g.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/Mosrite%20The%20Ventures%201965/NBD_edited%206_zpsxntf8crt.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20CURRENT/Mosrite%20The%20Ventures%201965/NBD_edited%206_zpsxntf8crt.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

So there I was, walking down Denmark Street and minding my own business when I stopped to have a look in the window at Wunjo's. [i]Mal paso[/i], mate, [i]mal paso[/i]. A little while later, money had changed hands and I was carrying [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/Mosrite%20The%20Ventures%201965/NBD_edited%2010_zpsb6zddgng.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20CURRENT/Mosrite%20The%20Ventures%201965/NBD_edited%2010_zpsb6zddgng.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/Mosrite%20The%20Ventures%201965/NBD_edited%2012_zpsj2tm2j9k.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20CURRENT/Mosrite%20The%20Ventures%201965/NBD_edited%2012_zpsj2tm2j9k.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

I've never really got the thing with the tuners on the underside of the headstock, and 'signature' models have never really interested me. The one that really floats my boat is the T5, but I would really struggle to justify buying one.

He's done himself no favours by describing it as a Speakeasy model.

[quote name='tranmere' timestamp='1426261848' post='2716325'] For practice together and exchanging ideas. Medway, Kent area. [/quote] When I was first starting out on bass, I actually found it more useful to hook up with guitarists than other bass players. I was self-teaching from books (especially Stuart Clayton's excellent Crash Course For Bass) so what I really needed was people I could jam along with so as to practise the techniques I was learning.

In my studio I have storage boxes filled with gear, the contents written on the box. So there's a box labelled "XLR leads", and a box labelled "Jack leads", and a box labelled "Kettle leads", etc. A few weeks ago I noticed that someone had added some graffiti to one of the boxes. It now reads "Jack leads, from the back". Hope this helps.

If you're playing with your two daughters then this is an easy fix. Forget the audience, forget being on stage ... just focus on the girls. Assuming that you'll be playing next to them, just arrange the three of you so that they're facing their mates in the audience, while you're side-on to the audience (and not looking at them) and concentrating on what matters, which is making sure that they enjoy the experience. Good luck.

... no, wait ... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Edan-4-x-10-400watt-Bass-Cab-/181526287288?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2a43cf53b8 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Edan-D115XLT-400watt-Bass-Cab-/171459279630?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item27ebc4fb0e