Happy Jack

I have to ask ... which island?

There are some scabs just have to be picked, aren't there? In truth, I had noticed that it was a while since the last have-a-pop-at-Barefaced thread on Basschat, and I was wondering whether people had finally given up banging their heads against brick walls. What was I thinking? As I near the end of my career (at long bloody last) I am more than ever persuaded that cash is king, and that the public votes not with its feet but with cash. Opinions are indeed like aerosols. All that matters is, DO THEY SELL? I dread to think how much money Unilever have made from selling Marmite. But sell it they do, and in astonishing quantities. The British public can't get enough of the stuff. You can lecture them until you're blue in the face about how awful it tastes, how tricky it is to serve, how those funny foreigners have far better products available and you really can't understand why everybody doesn't buy them instead. And you know what. Nobody gives a flying f*** what your opinion is. They know what they like, and they like Marmite, and they really do not care that a self-appointed expert is telling them they are wrong. Now, what was it we were talking about?

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1413134922' post='2575185'] I don't think you have to tip anywhere regardless of the service. It's not mandatory. [/quote] You've not tried to get a second drink in a NYC bar after failing to tip for the first one then? Any bar in NYC, it's a dollar a drink to the bar staff. Sure, you can choose to be a tourist and refuse to play, but you'll find that you just became invisible ...

From a 25-year-old copy of Music Trades magazine: [size=5][u][b]JAPAN[/b][/u][/size] ATLANSIA = Atlansia CHU SIN GAKKI = Charvel ESP = ESP, Focus, Kramer FUJIGEN GAKKI = Casio, Fender, Greco, Ibanez, Heartfield, Squire (sic), Westone HEADWAY = Riverhead KASUGA = Blade, Tune, Washburn, Yamaha KAWAI = Fernandes, Kawai, Rockoon MORRIS = Aircraft, Fender, Hurricane, Bill Lawrence, Morris SHIMOKURA = Boss Axe, Chandler, Mosrite TAKAMINE = Takamine TERADA = Aria, Epiphone, Terada TOKAI = Aria, Greco, Tokai YAMAHA = Yamaha [size=5][u][b]KOREA[/b][/u][/size] CORT = Cort, Hohner, Kramer SAEHAN = Applause, BC Rich, Celebtiry, Fernandes, Ovation, Vester, Westone SAMICK = Aria, Epiphone, Hondo, Marathon, Samick, Vantage, Washburn YOUNG CHANG = Fender, Fenix, Hurricane, Morris, Squier [size=5][u][b]TAIWAN[/b][/u][/size] YAMAHA = Yamaha

I've played regular gigs at three pubs where a hat / jug / bucket / whatever was part of the regular arrangement, usually on top of a £150 fee (we normally go out for£250). At one venue the jug was taken around by someone with the band, and usually returned something at least half-decent, say £50. At the other two, the jug was taken around by a member of the bar staff and the contents "counted" behind the bar before being given to the band. Strange to relate, the amount given to the band always seemed to be a lot less than it looked when we saw the jug going round. We no longer play those gigs. At all.

But she has told us NOTHING ....

But if one artist gets very much deeper into the music than another, would that not be a strange division in altitudes?

[quote name='Graham' timestamp='1412858542' post='2572723'] ... but they're a different company now. [/quote] Who are?

Bloody Rickenbackers, eh?

Still not convinced by the marketing possibilities of a boutique valve amp with a puddle of oil under it.

Is this free admission? Or do we get paid to come in? What time is KO? The SouthEast BassBash is happening that afternoon in deepest, darkest Surrey.

Returning to the fray, combining motorbikes with iconic valves, how about DESMO?

Bit unfair to describe Sunderland as a "category" ...

Tuning down like that is something I've not done, but with regular EADG on my Precisions my favourite strings are LaBella FLs. I really don't like chromes, and I find the LaBellas far more sympathetic to the blues / blues-rock / soul that I normally play. If I can't get LaBella (they're often out of stock) then I'll go for Status Hotwires or Lakland (the ones they used to market as Joe Osborne flats).

Outstanding work Dad. Thanks. I've got a rehearsal starting in 10 minutes (at which, bizarrely, I expect we'll spend a while watching videos of ... erm ... our last rehearsal ) so I'll drop back down onto this at a later stage. While I'm at it, thanks to all who have come up with information and suggestions - much appreciated.

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1412790209' post='2572120'] As it's all valve, call it the V.Max. As in Yamaha's best ever muscle bike. [/quote] Sod that! If that's yer thinking, then call it Buell!

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1412787163' post='2572075'] Always thought Jon Anderson sounded like a girl, but when he speaks he sounds like a proper bloke, so he's all right now in my book. [/quote] To my ears, he sounds just like Sean Bean.

[quote name='Norris' timestamp='1412786208' post='2572057'] Pink Floyd - Bike? [/quote] John Le Carre - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Soory Dad, you're quite right. Bog standard PC, reasonable amount of RAM, decent video card. For conversion, I have a home-use version of VideoPad Video Editor (NCH), Windows Movie Maker, and a trial version of Movavi. For playback, I have VLC Media Player (which also plays Flash), Quicktime, and of course Windows Media Player.

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1412784100' post='2572024'] Call it Gerald, like the mouse. [/quote] Surely you mean Gerald the Mole ...

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1412781521' post='2571990'] Does YT have a space limit..? [/quote] It's more a matter of how long it takes to upload on the connection I have here ... a three minute file is quoted as taking 90 minutes! [quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1412782015' post='2572000'] This also means you could re-encode an AVI with embedded MPEG2 video into an AVI with embedded MPEG4 video for example. [/quote] Sad to relate, but to me this is roughly equivalent to "t'crossbeam's gone askew on't treddle". [quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1412782104' post='2572001'] What's the frame size of the original video? If a clip of about 10 minutes needs a full gigabyte I'd guess it might be full HD? Thats 1920 x 1080 in 16:9 widescreen format. Try resampling/rendering it to something like 1280 x 720 or even 853 x 480 which should reduce the file size a fair bit. [/quote] OK, so all I need to know now is how to resample/render ...

OK, just tried converting the same file as before into .FLV. Results just in: Original MOV file = 565 Mb Converted to MP4 = 546 Mb Converted to WMV = 361 Mb Converted to FLV = 549 Mb It's hard to see that as progress ...

Are these 8x10 or 6x10?

[quote name='M@23' timestamp='1412769030' post='2571773'] I don't want to fan any flames here, but I have to ask, why are people so accepting of this? [/quote] If you lean your bass against your cab while you have a cuppa, and it falls over and gets damaged, I don't see that as a design flaw in the bass. I see it as an example of "well don't DO that then". I don't see how someone else picking up a cab by the wrong handle is something I should either accept or be appalled by. It's his cab and if that's what he wants to do, well so be it.