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    Competition: Name the Function Band Name!

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    [quote name='yorks5stringer' post='915414' date='Aug 4 2010, 09:51 PM']2 names I've always wanted to use are:

    Tipping Point

    Elephant in the Room[/quote]

    [url="http://tippingpointband.com/"]http://tippingpointband.com/[/url]

    [url="http://www.myspace.com/elephantintheroomau"]http://www.myspace.com/elephantintheroomau[/url]

    how much for a jazz neck?

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    [quote name='chrisd24' post='915478' date='Aug 4 2010, 11:05 PM']dont have pics im afraid, it has the old style logo on it,nut is fitted, no machine heads, or bushes,but has a strap button on the back of the headstock if thats any help?[/quote]


    Sounds like a 62RI neck (strap button on the back)

    There's two types of machine heads fitted to these, Japanese and US made. They have different sized shaft holes. If it has the smaller holes you may find it hard to get machineheads to fit and have to bore the holes out. I've not done that but I can't imagine that will be easy with hand tools...

    Japanese machineheads have 11mm posts and US ones have 14mm posts

    The back plates are different sizes too and so the screws holes will be spaced differently
    Measure the distance between the screw holes at the very top of the neck, the G machinehead position. If the top pair are 35mm apart then it had US winders, 24mm and it had Japanese winders.

    Competition: Name the Function Band Name!

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    No real sillyness yet? oh well ..

    After The Naming Of Cats by T. S. Eliot

    [b]The Naming of Bands[/b]
    The Naming of Bands is a difficult matter,
    It isn't just one of your holiday games;
    You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
    When I tell you, a band must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
    First of all, there's the name that the fans will use daily,
    Such as Rockers, Blockers, 'heads or The Games,
    Such as Wallies or That Lot, Trouble or Bill Bailey--
    All of them sensible everyday names.
    There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
    Some for the Rock band, some for the blues:
    Such as Deathstar, Armageddon, Howling Chicken, Demeter--
    But all of them sensible everyday names.
    But I tell you, a band needs a name that's particular,
    A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
    Else how can it keep up its singer perpendicular,
    Or spread out its flyers, or cherish its pride?
    Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
    Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
    Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum-
    Names that never belong to more than one band.
    But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
    And that is the name that you never will guess;
    The name that no common research can discover--
    But THE BAND ITSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
    When you notice a band in profound meditation,
    The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
    Their minds are engaged in a rapt contemplation
    Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of its name:
    Its ineffable effable
    Effanineffable
    Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

    Competition: Name the Function Band Name!

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    [quote name='zero9' post='914871' date='Aug 4 2010, 01:15 PM']How about theband4all (theband4u already exists)?[/quote]


    Speaking as an older person, and quite possibly the age of the potential mother in law paying for the wedding, anything that has a number representing a word in a text-speak styleeee would instantly get the thunbs down from me.

    Same as Toys R us gr8s and produces 4boding and sounds like yoofspeak 2 me .. :)

    Competition: Name the Function Band Name!

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    Part of me (the marketing part) says you should have a name that says what you do, or hints at it. and part of me says just grab two random words that don't normally go together. ie the Sibob approach.

    The former way may get you slightly more clicks in a list of band names, as the clicking person will have some idea of what you do..
    But... it will almost certainly have been thought of for another band or some other activity that's all over the internet already, thus negating the benefit.
    The latter will probably mean your website comes up first when they google your name, if they know your name.

    Either way you have to work hard to get the top slot in a casual search for a function band for a wedding ...

    On balance I'd go for the latter approach as it's easier to be the only "Puce Pavlova" than one of the many "Soul Providers" ...

    on board amp / speaker

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    Hi
    Welcome to Basschat.
    I assume this is for playing when travelling?

    That's an interesting idea. There's a number of "travel" guitars that have built in amps but a Steinberger body is tiny so I'd imagine that woud be a step too far (expect luthier quotes way in excess of the value of the bass to put you off)

    It will probably sound awful anyway so why not just get a little awful sounding portable amp for a lot less money?
    [url="http://uk.ebid.net/for-sale/marshall-ms2-portable-battery-amplifier-new-8531327.htm?from=googlebase"]Marshall MS2[/url] £20


    [url="http://www.firebox.com/product/5/Smokey-Amp"]Smokey[/url] £25

    CIJ Fender Jazz 62 Re-issue Gunmetal blue/rosewood

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    [quote name='Kenny_K75' post='914074' date='Aug 3 2010, 05:29 PM']Where do you keep getting these great basses from...? Would snap this up in a sec if I hadn't bought the sunburst CIJ Jazz from you a while back. Loving it by the way. Best of luck with the sale. That is the sexiest looking bass I have ever seen.[/quote]

    Ha ha .. I have a team of trained Ninjas rounding them up in remote Japanese monasteries :)

    I'm a sunburt kinda guy but when this one came out of the packaging even my wife said how good it looks.

    When Writers Play - Bass

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    Radio three series..

    [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n6vks"]Nice short essay[/url] on one man's relationship with a double bass, and Mingus

    "The historian Niall Ferguson confesses that he stole a double bass to later join a local jazz quartet, who were beguiled by Charles Mingus."

    Spinal Tap on a Double?

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    [quote name='3V17C' post='912579' date='Aug 2 2010, 10:33 AM']Harry Shearer isn't Homer Simpson!![/quote]


    Ah so true, sorry!
    As he seems to play just about every grown up male in the show I got confused there for a bit ...

    I've edited the OP to reflect the truth and the title so that people don't think it refers to "tapping" on an upright...

    Spinal Tap on a Double?

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    Posted · Edited by OldGit



    Spinal Tap's "Christmas with the Devil" Jazz version with Harry Shearer (Derek Smalls / Mr Burns) on upright.
    I'm not a jazzer but that sounds pretty good to me... :)
    Bilbo?

    (Edited to correct my assumption that Harry also played Homer in the Simpsons, seems that Homer is voiced by Carole Kaye.)

    How was your gig last night?

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    [quote name='E sharp' post='912329' date='Aug 1 2010, 10:47 PM']Did a dep last night with a group of young uns near Norwich .

    I mean I'm only 41 , but listening to them talking to their mates whilst outside on a fag break , I suddenly felt quite old .

    Just the standard fare of Hendrix , 12 bar and the like , plus a few originals . Their lack of gigging and experience was obvious at times , and I felt like I was holding it down for them , but if I'm honest , remembering how I played at 15 , then they're miles ahead of where I was .[/quote]


    I'm constantly amazed at how good kids play these days but I'm also amazed the highlights of their sets are the Hendrix and SRV done as karaoke versions.

    Don't they have new heroes?

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