Happy Jack
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What on Earth makes you think I'll ever get up that high? 😂
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I bought my Lull '54 P several years ago (from a guy in Denmark) chiefly because I loved the colour ... well @Silvia Bluejay loved the colour. 🙄 I didn't have a particular band or project in mind for it, and frankly I didn't expect to use it that much because I was playing almost exclusively 5-string basses at the time. Within weeks it had become my go-to bass for anything 4-string or anything requiring a P-bass style punch to the tone. Mine is very lightweight (about 3Kg), very comfortable on a strap, and a neck that's a joy to play. It gets more gig-time than almost any other bass I own, and I own a LOT of basses. One big difference between the bass above and mine is that mine has the classic pickup cover which - for my playing style - is pretty much essential. If you want to hear how these basses sound in a gig situation, mine features on maybe a third of the videos here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPV6QAb2Pu-7dhX3hwgqohg -
So for those of us of the non-luthier persuasion, it looks like any other jack once it's installed?
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Can someone please explain the difference between a barrel jack and a normal jack?
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It's a Rockabilly thing. We interviewed Lee Rocker just before Covid and one of the things he mentioned was that The Stray Cats never soundcheck before any gig.
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Seeing as this thread has veered off into Soundcheck territory, my covers band has sound-checked with the same song for the last 12 years. Every gig. Every single one. On those all-too-frequent occasions where we don't get a 'proper' soundcheck, we simply make that song our first number. All three of us in the band plus @Silvia Bluejay our sound engineer know exactly how that song is supposed to sound, and we hardly ever run into problems. Except when the lead singer suddenly decided to ramp up his personal mic-stand monitor to the max due to a loss of confidence / stage fright / whatever. It was the only piece of kit on stage that Silvie couldn't turn down!
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That would be me, and there was a perfectly logical reason for that choice at the time. That reason is now gone, courtesy of £16,000 worth of eye operations last year, which is why those super-sized dots no longer serve any useful purpose.
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Damned right - superb!
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In truth, Mick, I'm loving this. Seriously.
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Next stop ... my Seasick Steve Tribute band.
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OK, I'll bite. What makes a bassist - ANY bassist - somehow "perfect to play steel guitar"?
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I am going to tune my short scale bass BEAD. Am I nuts?
Happy Jack replied to BELA's topic in Bass Guitars
Well string choice is going to have a major impact, obviously, but in the final analysis it's all about how it feels & plays as far as you are concerned. I'll be interested to hear what you end up with. -
I once had to yell "It's not a f***ing shuffle!" at the drummer, about 24 bars into a song. He took it in good part. Eventually. The audience seemed to think it was all part of the show. 🙄
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Love the badly re-stuck 'Z' ...
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Please merge this topic with the one started by @Newfoundfreedom Incidentally @ped (or maybe it's @Kiwi these days), this is I'm afraid another example of just how hopeless the Basschat Search function still is. Before starting this topic, I took the trouble to search General Discussion for "Sessions" to avoid duplicating someone else's thread. Many screenfuls of stuff came up, but not a very recent topic entitled "Session" which rather negates the point of having a Search function at all.
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Is this a real thing, or am I being spammed/scammed?
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I'm guessing that sanding it entirely on the bass side would still reduce the size of the holes to a significant degree, but you've already mentioned that a better solution might actually be to make those holes bigger. On balance the obvious response is that, when you're working with an expert, you're usually best off leaving it to him! Please just pretend that it's your own bass, Andy, and do what you would do if that were the case. 🙂
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Or use Purpleheart plugs with the Luminlays at the centre in fluorescent green. Or something. Oh alright, I'll come quietly.
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I assumed you would only be able to do that if you replaced the entire trussrod. If you can replace the nut with the rest of the trussrod in situ then that's jam all the way. 🙂
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Nah! My daughter's trussrod worked fine right from the start ...
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Go boy, GO!!!
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That is outrageously good news!
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OK, you can all give up the bass and go home now
Happy Jack replied to skankdelvar's topic in General Discussion
Technically brilliant, effectively unlistenable. "Let me show you how fast I can play lots and lots of notes over weird chord changes and bizarre time signatures." I'd genuinely love to hear the same kid playing a proper bass groove. I reckon he'd not only be brilliant at it, but also a great deal more musical. -
Why do you think it's cheap? It's an auction with over two days left to run!
