Happy Jack

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/134869-re-valving-an-orange-bass-terror/

That was lush.

Contact Steve Taylor (tayste_2000).

In all fairness, Jon, you're way closer to all those basses in Aberdeen and Perth ...

I'm sorry. That was a quote from The Lord Of The Rings. I was trying to be funny!

One interface to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them?

[quote name='Jazzneck' timestamp='1404748404' post='2495365'] Hey Jack, do you [b]really[/b] think the SE Bashers are able to tell the difference between Jazzes and Precisions? [/quote] Oh yes, the Jazz will be the one trying to play [i][b]Portrait Of Tracey[/b][/i] ...

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1404747207' post='2495345'] I'd narrowed it down to two. So I was quite pleased with myself when it turned out that mine was actually one of the two I thought it might be. The other one was Happy Jack's 1957 USA Fender. Sorry, Jack Edit to add: - mine was the 2006 MIM with groundwound ('half wound') strings. Jacks had flats. [/quote] Shell, your MIM was the shock result of the session, far more so than the Hoppus due to the 'hot' pickup issue. For me, the low placement of the '57 was actually no surprise. There's a reason that Leo changed the pickup on that bass! My '57 is valuable because of its rarity, not because it sounds so nice. The low placement of my '66, on the other hand, was a genuine surprise to me. Even I scored it low, yet of all the (far too many) basses I own, including a number of high-end boutique Precisions, that '66 is comfortably my favourite. Hmmmm. All in the mind? All in the mix? All in Lozz's fingers? Something to ponder.

[quote name='silverfoxnik' timestamp='1404727127' post='2495018'] This is something that we should do at the SE Bash perhaps, with Jazz basses? [/quote] Oh I'm quite sure we'd be able to tell Jazz basses from Precisions.

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1404732729' post='2495108'] Regarding the debate about how Motown was perceived at the actual time of its' heyday in the 1960's and early 1970's, if you look back at documents of the time like music journalism and things that other musicians said in interviews, more often than not the perception of Motown was that it was rather formulaic and trite throwaway pop music. That view was quite wrong, of course, as we all now realize, but, as so often happens, at the time many people were blind to the great artistry and superb musicianship evident on so many of those records. The critical and popular renaissance that Motown has enjoyed is similar to that of many bands from the 1970's, like ABBA , for example. At the height of their popularity they were derided by "serious" music fans and critics alike as trashy throwaway pop music, but nowadays they are revered by the very same people who hated them in those days as being great songsmiths and making timeless music of genuine quality . So much is a product of retrospect . Even bands like Led Zeppelin, despite selling a lot of records back in the 1970's, were never as widely celebrated or appreciated as they are now over thirty-odd years after their demiise. At the time, they were a cult act ( although it was a pretty big cult) . [/quote] Good post. I was born in 1956 so Motown formed a pretty substantial chunk of the soundtrack to my youth. I knew very few people who 'objected' to it, but plenty who (like me) thought it all sounded a bit the same, almost as if all those different bands had somehow managed to play the same as each other. Little did we know. In truth, I paid a lot more attention to the Beatles, the Stones, the Hollies, the Move, Manfred Mann, than I ever did to the Temptations or the Supremes. I was amongst the many who took the piss out of Abba, but now recognise just how good many of those songs were. Except [i][b]Fernando[/b][/i]. Can't agree about Led Zep though. I wasn't a big fan, so I didn't bother to go, but I remember them selling out Earl's Court for three nights in 1975. In those days, that was about as big as it got. If that was a cult following, then it was one helluva cult. One thing about last night's documentary ... as always I hated the interjections from current stars barely out of nappies who can't possibly have known much about the subject, but I had one genuine LOL moment when a youngster right at the end described Marvin's [i][b]Grapevine [/b][/i]as a song that made you feel 20% cooler every time you listened to it. Nail --> Head.

AFAIK the [i]cachet [/i]of the slab-body is down to its association with Mr. Entwistle, rather than the other way around.