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[quote name='Old Horse Murphy' post='159153' date='Mar 17 2008, 08:04 PM']I've arranged with Jon to go up there when I pick it up and go through a whole range of pickups. If it needs to go active, he'll do it there and then for me. He's fast becoming my favourite person in the whole world [/quote] Our date's off then I guess ... So fickle, these bass players

[quote name='Old Horse Murphy' post='158809' date='Mar 17 2008, 10:10 AM']Well, my eyes have been well and truly opened... Having owned a couple of Jazz basses over the years, but not being too enamoured with them (I always found the body shape a bit awkward and the neck a little bit too thin), I decided that it may be worth trying them again due to the problems I've had hearing the P bass recently. I've just bought TimmyC's Lakland Joe Osborn 5 string off him and the difference to my hearing is amazing. I can hear every note cut through and the definition is amazing. So, after being a dyed-in-the-wool Precision player, I've now discovered the beauty of the Jazz bass. The only sad part about this is that it has cemented my decision to move my P Bass on, as I really can't afford to have it sitting there not being played.[/quote] Glad you got that sorted, Nick ...

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[quote name='Treeb' post='158621' date='Mar 16 2008, 09:44 PM']Martin Turner (Wishbone Ash)[/quote] Oh yes! Can't imagine life without playing Argus through loud once every 2 months (going to see the Ash live) Brilliant bass, fab vocals and most excellent guitar.

[quote name='tauzero' post='158915' date='Mar 17 2008, 01:45 PM']The melodeon was feeding back every time Penni got near the monitor (which is still in the experimental stage).[/quote] We have loads of fun with the melodeon and monitor. In the end we just gave him his own channel with it's own EQ so he can have more control over different frequencies to try to tame the beast. We all think he should stuff it with cotton wool to stop it feeding back .. he seems reluctant for some reason Our guy's just got a bug wireless and that helps cos it allows him to move around a lot more .. Our barn dance Saturday was fine - no one expected a St Pats night.. phew! Awful sonic disaster hall.. probably fine for an acoustic event but we aren't acoustic The stage sound was a nightmare and one of our wireless mics was popping and cracking on its own all night. Dep guitarist in the deep end. Only his second gig with us but he did really well. He's a great musician so I only had to throw him a start chord and warn him of any morphing tune sets and he was on the money. He brought his keyboards too and was great when the dancers started calling out suggestions. Once we'd done our dance to Green Onions/Help Me they twigged that he had a great organ and started shouting out the list of greats - House of the Rising Sun, Whiter shade of Pale, Je T'aime ... oh and all the normal stuff like Stairway and Smoke on the water ... We even managed a fair amount of Whisky in the Jar as a nod to St Pat and St Phil .. I think we may have to get him in full time alongside our regular guitarist who is much more of a trad folkie acoustic player... just have to charge 20% more Oh and it was the first outing for my Weeping Demon Wah-wah Wow, now that's a nice sound. Much better than the one on my Zoom B2.1u.. I think I may have used it a bit too much

[quote name='johnnylager' post='158792' date='Mar 17 2008, 09:31 AM']A drummer who can use a computer? Outstanding. Consider a trade for mid 60's White Lightning pickled model? Will deliver. Sounds Plausible. Could the battery problem be related to the older NiCd cells? Newer NiMh / Li cells should have less memory. Or would a disposable fit and change it before every gig? Good luck.[/quote] trying to avoid the wastage of disposables though ..

After a particularly large amount of troublesome popping and crunching from our PA on Saturday we finally tracked it to one of the wireless mics. It had a rechargeable 9v battery in it (a new, fully charged one) Our drummer has turned up this article about not using rechargeable batteries in wireless mics .. [url="http://www.wirelessmic.net/wireless_rechargeable.html"]http://www.wirelessmic.net/wireless_rechargeable.html[/url] However it's undated so does this still apply or are new rechargeables better? Any views? Thanks, OG

[quote name='MissPenguin' post='158197' date='Mar 15 2008, 09:23 PM']Friday afternoon went well ^^ Apart from our bari getting up at the end and spectaularly knocking over her stand.. At least the judges giggled![/quote] Judges?

[quote name='SJA' post='158148' date='Mar 15 2008, 07:47 PM'][url="http://www.jacop.net/hammock.html"]http://www.jacop.net/hammock.html[/url][/quote] So that's 1979 too Anything earlier?

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='158338' date='Mar 16 2008, 10:41 AM']You know what? I was so close to suggesting this myself and I can't remember what stopped me. I think I might have been distracted by work at the time. It's only a short jump to others bringing a guitar and a keyboard and... ...a Basschat band is formed.[/quote] There's a small Japanese drummer trapped in my zoom pedal if that helps ..

[quote name='Finbar' post='157780' date='Mar 15 2008, 12:34 AM']By the way, I'm not entirely opposed to the Shuker style headstock on a Fender style bass. Buying a bass from Jon, I want it to be a display of his work as much as anything else - I'm happy for him to plaster his design traits and name all over it! Also, an MX member called Killer Fridge (I'm sure he posted back on BW, don't know if he's still here) bought a 5 string Fender style bass of Jon with a Shuker style headstock, and it looked absolutely mint. I think he's sold it on now, but it suited it perfectly.[/quote] Cases ..Ok I guess it's whether yours is classified as one of those You pay for it either way Rich's Jazz has a Shuker shaped headstock. One thing though, I wanted a very readable Shuker label on my mod 5 but Jon put his new silver signature on it. What with it being script and behind the strings, people can't read it. They come up and have a close squint.. I have the more legible Shuker Bass logo on the back of the headstock : and on the rear cover but it's worth asking him to use the legible one on the front before he does it :0 I like people to know who built the bass so he gets more work ...

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='157619' date='Mar 14 2008, 05:52 PM']Here you are... [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Jack-The-Lad-The-Old-Straight-Track-NEW-CD_W0QQitemZ230231707764QQihZ013QQcategoryZ1049QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]The classic JTL album... although they're all great![/url][/quote] Excellent, thanks ordered that

[quote name='bassninja' post='157639' date='Mar 14 2008, 06:34 PM']Cool. Playing in a Butlin's Irish bar tomorrow night with a bit of fiddly-diddly. How about Dave Pegg on Fairport's Dirty Linen as another prime exponent? [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1gopdN3yTI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1gopdN3yTI[/url][/quote] Great stuff - folk on two strats and a Precision.. It's nice to see Dave Swarbrick's not only still alive but touring ... There's a brilliant slapin' funk bass version of Blackleg Miner on the Steeleye Span album "Present". Rick kemp on his custom Overwater. I'd love to play that but I doubt it would suit the weddings we play

[quote name='Soulfinger' post='157653' date='Mar 14 2008, 07:06 PM']I bet a custom gig bag for that beast willl cost you more than the bass. [/quote] Nah Pair of size 42x36 jeans from Tesco, sew up the ends of the legs £4

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[quote name='queenofthedepths' post='157705' date='Mar 14 2008, 09:02 PM']freetranslation.com says it's Dutch for "blow work" - so the linguist in me says it's "percussion"[/quote] Dutch Blow Work? I think I was offered some of that through a window last time I was in Amsterdam ..... Seems Roy McCurdy is, indeed, a drummer [url="http://www.insidejazz.com/Roy_McCurdy%2FRoy_McCurdy_Bio.htm"]http://www.insidejazz.com/Roy_McCurdy%2FRoy_McCurdy_Bio.htm[/url]

[quote name='pete.young' post='157597' date='Mar 14 2008, 05:20 PM']Well I'm blowed! It really has been moved. My humble apologies.[/quote] It's been all over the radio this week with a kind of "don't be daft" feel to it ... [quote]You've got two choices: either last -night-of-the-proms or play some English music - Bellowhead, Oysterband, Tiger Moth,Albions, Committee Band, Whapweasel for starters. I know what you mean though. I spent quite a long time trying to convince a bemused Jamaican that Bellowhead weren't Irish traditional music.[/quote] Ha ha yeah well at least your friend wasn't from England .. mos of teh people I run into have no idea about folk or its noisier relatives. I play Bellowhead at anyone who will listen and thank gawd for Kate Rusby and the youngsters who are getting some English tradition style music into the common conciousness. Elgar goes diddly eh? Now there's an idea. I slip a bit of Prokofiev in now and then and some Paganini.. No one notices but it gives me a warm feeling [quote]That must have been the Serious Burns unit.[/quote] Ha ha yah we told that joke .. maybe that was it ...

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XD654101NE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XD654101NE[/url] Renaissance - Forever Changing 1979. Is this the earlist provable sighting of a 5 string acoustic bass? Nice Jensen's too

[quote name='bass_in_ya_face' post='157595' date='Mar 14 2008, 05:14 PM']Northern lights - Renaissance...god that brings back memories of my childhood. My parents had that on seven inch in about 1977![/quote] There's a load of youtube Renaissance stuff.. This one's 1979 and the guy's playing a 5 string acoustic bass ... I didn't know they existed then .. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XD654101NE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XD654101NE[/url]

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='157478' date='Mar 14 2008, 03:11 PM']Yep.. there's three out there, and they're all great! They were just remastered and reissued recently-ish. My 'other' band have a gig on St. Pat's, so I'm in the middle of learning a million twiddly-dee Irish tunes. It's very... challenging! Twiddleedee diddle diddle dum twiddly...[/quote] We get asked to play St Paddies, and Burns and St Andrews and, amazingly, St George's day events every year - the St Georges is a new one. The organiser had no idea what constituted music for an English night. Any ideas? People only get as far as "Ceilidh" on our website and assume we are celts and just like the Pogues or some other outfit they once saw somewhere in an Irish pub or barn dance. We are actuall an "Englsh Ceilidh Band" - thats a category defined by WebFeet - basically a rock band with a diddly front line - ours is a squeezebox. We actually did a Burns night one year - we told them we were not traditional - "no problems", said the organiser, "we want something different this year." They may have but their fee paying guests didn't. At half time 20 people ceremoniously left with a flurish of their kilts shooting us "You are n'ae Burrrrns night band" looks ... Learned that lesson

[quote name='bremen' post='157506' date='Mar 14 2008, 03:44 PM']That seems to say it's tomorrow AND Monday. I say declare it Paddy's Weekend (+1), save any confusion.[/quote] Some guy in Italy says you can't go getting ratted on St Pat's behalf during Holy Week so you have to do it on Saturday if you're on his team and both if you arn't ..

I'm old too and I liked it. Certainly as good as stuff I hear on the young persons wireless now and then. Lots of energy and drive. Look forward to seeing you guys live.