KK Jale

Done my share. It's anything from transcendent to ground-swallow-me-up time.

Best ever was maybe a last-second fill-in for a (mostly) German band at a festival in Spain. Rock covers, sort of. It was a cool anarchic kind of do, and the crowd was going utter freak out mental bananas. Ace!

This weekend I have a no-rehearsal folkie function gig and it could all go BADLY wrong but I've got a lot of those tunes hardwired in so we'll busk it fine.

The ability to turn on a sixpence and play tunes I've never heard before is what makes people think I'm a good player. Little do they know, that's usually as good as it gets...

Damn.

My biccie's fallen in my brew.

I kind of admire SS's schtick and self-invention but does the music really compare...


[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_DOnKJ232M"]RL Burnside somewhere in a field in 1978[/url]

All these Tradetang fakes have the logos and everything. Music Mans, Rickenbackers, Fenders... here's a 'bass' search on that site... worth a trawl to spot the warning signs...

[url="http://www.tradetang.com/wholesale+bass.html"]http://www.tradetang.com/wholesale+bass.html[/url]

Logo manky and off-centre. Headstock peak not sharp enough. Tailpiece looks unlikely. Sunburst horrid. I say Chinese fake. Likely one of these..

[url="http://www.tradetang.com/for-sale/Free-shipping-New-Arrival-Jazz-L-5-CES-Electric-Guitar-guitar-G-A0204A-Wholesale/129626-2297529.html#"]http://www.tradetang.com/for-sale/Free-shi...6-2297529.html#[/url]

[quote name='xgsjx' post='1227660' date='May 11 2011, 03:37 PM']Bill Withers & co have the right idea. I prefer to sit during a gig (I'd sit in the audience if I could!).[/quote]

Thank heavens.

I thought I was the only one. Alone in the world. *chokes back a sob*

Nice work, Happy Jack.

Good advice about using a precisely-fitted crosshead screwdriver to remove the amp cover. The screws on mine were incredibly tight. In the end I had to lay the amp down, use a socket set with a foot-long extension and apply all my weight… that did it. Just!

One more idea, especially if anybody chooses to use secondhand replacement valves (though I used a new Sovtek for V2 I robbed a lovely General Electric 12AX7 from my Fender amp for V1). On removing the Chinese originals, lightly press the nine pins into a soft surface (eg plasticine) and check that the pins on your replacement line up perfectly before inserting. If not, tweak them carefully into shape with needle-nose pliers. Bending the connections on the TB500's valve holders may (*probably will*) necessitate entire circuit board replacement!!

I bought this 80mm PC fan – [url="http://www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/products/casefans/x-rw-80r"]http://www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/products/casefans/x-rw-80r[/url] - to reduce noise but my tech advised that at 19CFM it didn't push as much air as the original so we left the old one in place. A 30CFM fan would be better.

Cool semi! That's an Old Kraftsman, basically a re-badged Kay.

Love Mariza. I believe that's a Portuguese guitar... 12-string... [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_guitar"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_guitar[/url]

You'll never hear that 'cos I don't describe myself as a singer...

As for my "flat" comment... I love some singers with very odd voices... Tom Waits, hell, even Dylan... some can sound amazing out of tune, some don't. If this doesn't trouble your ears, fair play!

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xLIb7KopyY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xLIb7KopyY[/url]

'Kin 'ell... just how appallingly, unspeakably, irredeemably flat does Adele sing?

[quote name='hillbilly deluxe' post='1209155' date='Apr 23 2011, 01:37 PM']Muriatic acid fumes.[/quote]

Forget Coke/wee and all the rest. Hillbilly told you the pro way. Plenty of info via the web!

[quote name='Wil' post='1212506' date='Apr 27 2011, 12:17 PM']I missed it, what did PJ Harvey play? Love her latest record.[/quote]


PJ did Let England Shake and The Words That Maketh Murder. Pretty compelling, IMNSHO.

Love the new album… bit of a fan ever since her first EP… used to see gigs in Bristol... her pink Gretsch Broadkaster used to be mine. Looooong story.

I went to the filming of a Later show last year… a friend of a friend got us passes. You're made to BUY your own bottled beer in the canteen beforehand and then not allowed to take any drink into the studio. I was appalled!

As most people know, it's all done on Tuesday night… the Friday show is recorded in a one-hour take with no re-runs, then there's a 15-minute break, then they do the 10 o'clock show live. So when Jools says "and you may hear such-and-such on the Friday show... " it's already happened.

As casapete says, the seated folks are band friends, PR, record company monkeys or BBC staff on a night out. Comely lasses are shepherded to the front of the standing areas.

It's a rotten situation to concentrate on the music - the live sound is far worse than the TV feed.

Still, got to see the Specials! (Oh, and Franz Ferdinand, the wonderful Carole King, and the utterly pants Yeah Yeah Yeahs).

And we blagged our way into the aftershow in the Pop Bar afterwards... which Jools never, ever attends, apparently. Though he does go down my local every other Monday night, so I'm very used to ignoring him.

[quote name='Doddy' post='1205325' date='Apr 19 2011, 10:53 PM']The band probably does know what it's doing,but I'm not sure that she did. She certainly didn't know when to come in.[/quote]

Ha! I'd forgotten that! Double length intro, yeah, big boo-boo. But I'll take great vibe over honest mistakes any day...

[quote name='uke' post='1205302' date='Apr 19 2011, 10:35 PM']KD could have done with another rehearsal![/quote]

Disagree! Outrageously wild version of Constant Craving. That band knows what they're doing.

Vintage Trouble very well honed. The guitarist was a bit route one '70s blues for me, but a good act.. they'll gain a lot by that.

If search doesn't work, insert into google:

"member's name" site:http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showforum=23

Lots of pics – neck pockets, routing, electronics etc – at the JV forum at [url="http://www.21frets.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl"]http://www.21frets.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl[/url]. You'll need to sign up.

Will bought a cab from me, good comms, recommended.

On hold pending the usual!

Moving from a house to a shoebox soon means I'm shedding some stuff.

This cab is a US-made Eden D210T… not the XST, nor the XLT, but the original 250W 8-ohm model. It's in very good cosmetic condition indeed.

From the Eden website:



Please note…

I'm pricing this cab at a somewhat remarkable [b]£99[/b] firm because last time I tried it, it displayed a slight intermittent crackle with one of my amps. With the other amp it seemed fine. Alas, I have neither the knowledge nor the time to investigate. It might be the tweeter; there might be no problem at all. The tweeter works; the tweeter attenuator works; I'm certain that both speakers are perfect, with no rub. Really, you need to bring your own amp along, drink tea, and check it out for yourself.

Pick up from London SE10 8LF preferred. No trades, thanks! All questions welcome.

Odd one on Saturday. A blues night, with dinner, at a sports club bar… all went quite well, and not our usual kind of do at all.

Anyway, we'd been told there'd be no grub, not without paying for it, but we arrive to be told by the promoter that there was a Thai chicken curry going and we were welcome to some of that, so we set up and soundchecked and then settled down with a curry to while away the 90 mins till gig time.

Seriously lovely curry it was too, so when we nipped out for a ciggie afterwards and the chef came out for one at the same time, we all complimented him. The chef turns to us, snarling, and goes "I've been here since 6am slaving my f-ing fingers to the bone and you lot all waltz in and get 50 quid, well it makes me f-ing sick," and storms off shouting around the corner.

There was this very long silence while we all looked at each other until the keyboard player shrugged and said "Well... learn to play piano. Kitchen monkey."

Later we were told that the chef had been through booze and coke problems and is known for being the grumpiest man in town.

The only thing that worried us was what he might have done to our curries...

Yep! Same value little green caps. Good sleepy thinking though!

It's a funny thing. I've got two Precisions here, a 62 reissue and a 57, but one has much worse shielding hum than the other, and I'm struggling to understand why.

Both basses are near-identical Japanese Squiers from 1982. Same pickups, same pots, same everything, with grounding plates in the pickup cavity and earth wires from under the bridge running back to a pot casing. However, but the 62 reissue hums MUCH more than the 57 (when you're not touching the strings, of course - then they're both fine).

One difference between the two is that the 57 has an anodised aluminium guard… but it's not soldered to ground so in theory IFAIK it shouldn't make a difference. In fact today I just backed the '62's guard with aluminium foil, not grounded yet, and it made no difference either, so that should prove it.

BTW, I've been through both basses with an ohmmeter checking resistance between output jack ground and various points, and both check out almost identically.

Before you say "The 62's pickup is dodgy" - well, I just swapped in a Lollar. Superb pickup! But still the same shielding hum difference.

I really want to improve the 62 to be as good as the 57.... but before I set to work, I wish I knew WHY the 57 is naturally so much better...

Any ideas most welcome.

"Purple Hi gross nitro"