Happy Jack

I'm waiting for a dentist's appointment meself ...

I'm just disappointed, saddened and disappointed, to find that not one Basschatter is having a New Year down-sizing involving selling a Barefaced Big Twin at a knock-down price, preferably within 50 miles of Harrow. I don't feel as if I'm asking too much ...

The water, baby, deffo the water. I often record rehearsals for my own benefit and I'd not bother to do that if I wasn't going to actually listen to those recordings, maybe learn something from them. If I've gone to the trouble of making a recording, then of course I'm going to offer it to my bandmates, but without insisting that they listen, learn, and inwardly digest. 😟 I'm well aware that not everybody shares that approach, and offering to share rehearsal recordings has been met over the years with the full range from enthusiasm and gratitude via complete apathy to outright suspicion and hostility.

Hmmmmm. Recording rehearsals can be a classic example of "You can lead a horse to water ...". Don't ask me how I know.

You could suggest that she try getting some lessons in how to do rock vocals ... makes it clear that she's not (currently) up to scratch whilst still being positive about it.

Post a photo so we know what bass you have in mind.

Why Polish prog never really took off ...

Pretty much anything by The Shaggs.

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I play in a busy rock'n'roll 3-piece. Much of the stuff we play only really sounds 'right' on DB but some of it (the Eddie Cochran stuff, for example) works best on a Precision, so that means I get to swop between them every half-dozen songs or so. Given a sensible vehicle and Class D amplification I have no problem taking both instruments to every gig, and it really enhances both the fun I get from playing and the entertainment value of the band.

I switched from WD40 to UB40 and clean my electrics with red red wine.

Shirley you could have got one with fanned frets?

Don't overthink it. Find a length of leather string (a chunky bootlace will do) and thread it between body and heel overhang. Pass the string through the button-hole at one end of any normal guitar strap and Robert is your proverbial.

Now Douglas, please stop. 😂

??? What is this "moved on" of which you speak?

These are just the empty ones ...

I started with a Digitech Drop and was very happy until I trod on the p/s where it exits the pedal ad completely f***ed it. When I looked around for a replacement I was shocked at how expensive they'd become, and even more shocked at just how good the Mooer Pitch Box is for less than half the money and a smaller footprint. Even better, the Mooer has a simple 3-way flick switch which turns it from a pitch-changer into a detune (chorus-y) pedal or a 2-part harmoniser. All that for £62. This video is (a) on guitar and (b) only about the pitch changing.

Try and play a Hofner like a Precision or a Musicman and you're on a hiding to nothing. Recognise that it's a different beast and needs to be played differently and you may well end up a happy bunny.

The f-holes are cunningly designed to draw away the smoke and extract all the soot. It's based on 72,000-year-old Atlantean technology, the sort that they won't tell us about. Anyway, have I told you about my healing crystals?

W T actual F?

Weight?

We always go down well there, and we get four gigs a year there so we keep coming back. Sometimes we get a decent jive-dance crew turn up, which is nice. The place has an 'estate pub' vibe to it, but it's actually a very well-run place and we've never had any grief when gigging there. Apparently what used to be the main music pub in Harlow closed down last year and The Herald is now the only real venue left in the town. Allegedly. I'm not an Essex boy so I have no local knowledge at all.

It's the interior of a 1770s Italian violin, but it makes me think of a Viking longhouse ... can you imagine that as a glorious hall with a fire on the hearth? All it needs is Grendel's arm to nail over the doorway.