Jazzneck

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1336051865' post='1640088']
Thing is these days they will be more likely to say f*** it and leave the course.
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And I would say "good riddance" to 'em!

[quote name='owen' timestamp='1335969745' post='1638806']
The concept of musicians respecting kit is admirable. It is how things should be. The concept of students respecting kit is admirable, it just does not happen. The idea that I can drill the care of other peoples property into them is attractive but not realistic (this is not just my students but this generation in general). 80% are fine (Musos). The other 20% (wanabees) are not vindictave or deliberately destructive, but to them it is "just college kit" and we will just "buy new ones". They might be musos by the time they leave, they might not. We do not have a technician for stuff to be signed in and out. Obviously we teach them how to use it, but what they do when we are there and what they do when we are not are two different thing.
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When I was studying engineering in the late 1960s each of the students had to pay a deposit of £10 (about £150 in todays money) at the start of each term and any equipment breakages due to the individuals carelesness, stupidity etc. forfeited a fraction to all of the deposit towards the repair or replacement of the kit.
Obviously , if you didn't b**gger anything then you got your £10 back at the end of term.
The college staff told us that breakages dropped from £2K/term to £12/term (continuous) on average within the space of two terms.
The real point was that the staff really enforced the rules and wouldn't stand any messing, including expulsion if necessary.
Don't pander to the little gits, be tough and they will respect you, the kit and the college in the end.

Even so, I really like that re-burst colouration.
Hm, he thinks again, I wonder if there's anyone out there that can make me a look alike of Ducks bass in that picture...........

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1335810384' post='1636435']
His seems to be far more of a red-burst than mine.

Interesting that he has the bridge ashtray mounted what I would describe as "the wrong way round", though I have seen a fair few done like that.
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Yes, it's that red-burst colouration that I like and hence wondered about the "year".
Although, thinking about it for a bit, I've seen this picture a lot of times before as a black + white so I wonder if the colour could be due to the photo being "colour tinted" a bit later in it's life and thus the "wrong" colour sunburst?

Re the ashtray, I've seen them mounted both ways round and I asked the question of a guy who had one "the wrong way round". His answer was that it was easier to re- string without taking off the ashtray - I thinking he might have been telling porkies to a young'n.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1335789709' post='1635988']
Gonna hafta get mahself one of them there lime green suits.

And a matchin' tie, natch.
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Y'mean yuh ain' got one, y'all?

Just perusing one of my CD covers and am intrigued by the bass Duck Dunn is holding.
I guess it is a 50s Precision but is it a slab or contour body? any ideas of its year?
(Mods, this might be the wrong forum to post this but feel free to move or delete if it is).

24th. June at the studio is confirmed?

Wotcha Charic, any news yet?

'Tis a mans bass and bl**dy superb it is, too.
Fit La Bella 1953 flatwounds, do not use a pick and put it through an Ampeg valve - absolute heaven. (imho )

[quote name='BottomE' timestamp='1334918043' post='1623369']
Its up to you guys really although having already accepted i think you have to now honour the commitment. We always put it to the band vote - the answer usually depends on the cause and how nicely we have been asked.
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Yes, we accepted immediately and we will honour the commitment.

We are a bunch of old Monarchists and we love the village we are fortunate enough to live in.

Just posing a question..................

[quote name='Truckstop' timestamp='1334913928' post='1623291']
God, just do the gig! What's wrong with showing a bit of willing every now and then?! It'll be fun, you'll get to play for lots of people, and you'll ingratiate yourself into village life.

I'm sure the organisers will be able to stretch to a free bar for and some free food. If not, who cares? Everyone else in the universe will be paying for the pleasure of celebrating the jubilee. Just because you'll be "working" doesn't mean you should get away with it for free in my opinion.

Just suck it up, do the show and show your appreciation that you've been asked to play in the first place.

Truckstop
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And that, Truckstop, is exactly what we (both bands) for those reasons did as soon as we were asked last night.

I was just asking the question, is all................

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1334907672' post='1623166']
"You'll get together for a practice anyway, won't you? Do one of them, then. We don't mind."
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This, I like.

Wonder if they'll put up with the smoking, bad language, farting and general off colour banter, hurling of insults etc. that goes on at our practise sessions, though?

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1334906559' post='1623152']
I'll do the P.A. for £300. Does that help?
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Thanks, but they've already agreed the deal.
We've already suggested that the bands P.A. could have been used as it would have been set up, anyway.

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1334906187' post='1623140']
just point out the above to whoever is asking
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Job done - the answer was "Yeah, but you're good guys and we can't afford to pay out anymore."

So we've got the local Jubilee celebration preparations underway and the two "bands" in the village have been asked to play the village party without payment, for free, gratis.......

However, the following has already been agreed:
The local P.A. company is being paid £425 to supply the kit and an announcer.
The local caterer is charging £6.50 per head for the buffet.
The local pub is supplying the bar and will be selling drinks at normal prices.
An insurance premium of God knows how much is being paid.

And we (two bands who normally go out for no less than £300) are being asked to play for nothing?

O.K. you may say, as it is a village do, you should do your bit.

Answers on a postcard, please.........

Rant over.

Different van and a little later to Post #41, we now had a ladida Transit with BAC 111 seats .
We were giving a drunken mate a lift home after the gig when we were pulled in by the police on the A41.
Three policemen arrive at the passenger side, we open the window...
PC no1, "Beat group, eh?"
Guitarist, "Yeah!"
PC no2, " Everyone out, we're searching you for drugs."
Drunken Mate, "F**k off you fascist b*stards and go and have a w*nk somewhere else" .
Three band members and the roadie promptly wish they were wearing brown trousers and desperately tried to distance themselves from the Drunken Mate .
PC no3 sticks his head through the door, peers into the smoke filled gloom of the van and asks, "Is that you Mick, you prat?"
Turns out that Drunken Mate and PC no3 are brothers!!!!!!!
Phew - got away with it and arrived home an hour later still shaking.
Who needs mates like that?

[quote name='gub' timestamp='1334389570' post='1615450']
Pesky gone and missed it !
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iPlayer?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1334044033' post='1609876']
Ho, ho. That's set me up for the day...
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Truth is even worse.
First beat group with three guitars and I, like a fool, learned and played the bass lines to "Under The Boardwalk" and "Poison Ivy", ended up playing them on a Framus Black Rose jazzer at a school dance.
Been playing bass, guitar and slide badly and having fun ever since.
Oh Well!

Went out carp fishing and came back with bass.

[quote name='Monckyman' timestamp='1333961723' post='1608653']
Ahem... "Kik" drum. less ink, innit?
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Yeh, that's the rite spellin, its from the 'Murican coz they fink it's kicked.
Us Brits tend to push down on a pedal which levers a beater or hit it with a stick to get the big drum to go bump, don't we?
Does this prove that British drummers are brighter than 'Murican drummers?
Just a thought - hoody up, slinks out quietly.

[quote name='Jayben' timestamp='1333891761' post='1607789']
Bass drum instead of kick. A small thing but can be so confusing in the studio if your drummer is lazy with his vocabulary and just says 'bass'.

'Shred'
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Kick Drum!

Yup, it's a valve amp with an engraved front, hand built as a prototype along with, as I understand it, two others.
This one is the 30W and I believe the others were a 15W and a 5W (both valve amps) with different engraved patterns on the front.
This 30W matches the Japanese Z custom MF that i also am lucky to own.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1333707104' post='1605468']
Wazzing in your van's radiator must be a low.
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Absolute low and it stank, too.
Needs must and we did get home.

Sorry it's not the best pic in the world, but this is a little bit special to me.

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Bedford Dormobile - piddling into a leaky radiator at 2am to keep things cool enough to get home, running out of fuel at the top of a long 1:15 hill and coasting down to the garage at the bottom only to overshoot due to faded brakes and having to push the loaded bugger back to the pumps uphill.
We eventually had it serviced and, next gig, going downhill on the A40 at Denham a sparkling plug blew out (stripped thread, bloody mechanics). Refitted the plug using the silver paper from a Kit-Kat bar and the beastie got us to the Ricky Tick Brixton and back to Bucks with no further problem.
We had a great time and many laughs with that van; I could go on, but I won't.