Happy Jack

How much cash you offerin' boy?

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1390735107' post='2348702'] Learned my lesson and this one is a keeper. [/quote] First in the queue, OK?

[quote name='Mickeyboro' timestamp='1390732551' post='2348638'] Can't see the link described on the page - help! M [/quote] http://www.statii.com/status_cats/reviews/12/index.html It's possible that you may need to be a Member to see this.

But can he do it on a wet Wednesday night in Scunthorpe?

In 2032, when all-original Thunder Jets have become iconic, sought-after vintage basses changing hands for £5000, there will be entire websites devoted to pointing out what you have done to your bass ...

[quote name='skychaserhigh' timestamp='1390650242' post='2347882'] The more bells and whistles means more stuff to go wrong. Any amp with a control called Kosmos and lights that you can change the colour of is not for me. [/quote] I am 100% with this. The whole attraction of my Orange Terror Bass is that it only has four knobs, and two of them don't do anything. In the world of "real amps" my Matamp also has four controls, three of which might as well be welded in place because I never touch them. Anything that allows you a hundred ways to improve your sound also offers you:[list] [*]a hundred ways to screw it up [*]a load of distractions when playing live [*]endless possibilities of annoying your bandmates [/list] Just because you [u][i][b]can [/b][/i][/u]doesn't mean you [u][i][b]should[/b][/i][/u].

I spent yesterday evening in bed, alone, coughing & sneezing. Be glad I wasn't there mate, be very glad!

Yes, but you try that sort of dancing down at your local and see where it gets you ...

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1390500068' post='2346125'] I think I must be a 'Greggatarian'. [/quote] Nope - you're just Greggarious.

[quote name='BurritoBass' timestamp='1390500253' post='2346128'] I play rock 'n' roll on mine - Eddie Cochran, Elvis etc and periodically in my Americana band. So I guess I fit the bill here. [/quote] [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Just%20Stuff/Music%20and%20Musicians/tn6L7qS_zps2d5ddf7b.png.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Just%20Stuff/Music%20and%20Musicians/tn6L7qS_zps2d5ddf7b.png[/IMG][/URL]

But when say that you would "modify" your lines, be ready for some pretty radical modification. IME trying to play electric bass lines, even simplified ones, on a DB frequently just doesn't work.The physical demands of the DB and the very different tonal qualities mean that you often end up playing something really quite different.

I feel sure that Dave will be hugely flattered by the comparison ...

[quote name='Steff' timestamp='1390397928' post='2344900'] Please excuse the ignorance but... what is this thing? [/quote] It's a sort-of amp bag for people who need to have ... erm ... designer amp bags. I've gigged with amps that cost less than that bag.

[quote name='Immo' timestamp='1390392634' post='2344797'] [/quote] Mmmmm ... chicken-heads.

Option #1: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PETROL-BAG-PS601-small-used-Sound-kit-/131094243156?pt=UK_MusicalInstruments_Parts_Accesories&hash=item1e85d36754 Second-hand, incomplete, not great condition, £150 + £7 postage Option #2: http://www.visuals.co.uk/salesProductDetail.php?PRODUCTID=1307253&gclid=CMHlu_PwkbwCFYNi7AodJy8AOw Brand new, complete and mint, £170 with free P&P

The Junkyard Dogs have decided to dust off Honky Tonk Women and re-introduce it to the setlist. Happy Jack: [i]My cowbell is far deeper than the one on the record - Charlie Watts has a much higher tone with his[/i]. Paul The Drums: [i]Well, you can get cowbells of different sizes to give you different pitches[/i]. MacDaddy: [i]Maybe he's using a vealbell[/i].

Saw this in the window at Wunjo's (Denmark Street). On-board synthesizer is it?

[quote name='Marc1t' timestamp='1390237706' post='2342986'] ... if I ever get to the stage ill pretend to be Norman Watt-Roy one of my heroes ... [/quote] That's an easy one ... wear Gollum make-up and sweat buckets (and I do mean buckets). I go to see NWR play as often as I can, used to watch him frequently with Wilko Johnson, once went to see him at The 100 Club with my leg in a cast following a motorbike accident and spent the entire gig with my cast resting on the stage by his feet just outside the sweat puddle. When I grow up I want to play like Norman.

Is the Deeside Inn free admission?

You guys aren't thinking laterally enough. FIT SPEAKERS IN THE CUPBOARD FFS!

Try putting your hands together and splaying out your thumb and fingers as far as they'll go without pain. Even after only a few months, you'll see that your fretting hand can stretch further than your plucking hand. By the time you've played for two or three years, you should see a difference of maybe a centimetre. IME that's pretty much where the process stops, i.e. your fretting hand doesn't continue to stretch until you turn into something out of The Fantastic Four, but then (hard to believe) but I'm on the wrong side of ... ahem ... 30.

Dunno. That idea wouldn't work with a J/J because of the interaction between the two single coils, so you'd have to test it by setting up a P/J as V/V/T controls. I have several P/J basses, but they are all fundamentally Precisions with (adapted) Precision controls, and all have a pan control ('cos I like pan controls, me).

I have a Mike Lull PJ5 where he's done something a bit different ... the pan control doesn't pan [b]from [/b]the P-pickup [b]to [/b]the J-pickup, instead the P-pickup is always on and the pan control simply [b]adds [/b]progressively more of the J-pickup to the constant sound of the P-pickup. I have several PJ Precisions where the pan does what it normally does and I always just use the P-pickup, but this Mike Lull system genuinely adds something since it means I can play [i][b]simple-P[/b][/i] or [i][b]P-with-attitude[/b][/i]. What I can't do with the Lull is play [i]J-bridge-pickup[/i] only, but I've never liked that sound anyway.