Jean-Luc Pickguard

Its not the funk machine which was a '62 with the work 'funk' carved into the neck heel & filled with ink. Before that he had a black '57 and after that a mid 60s one with a later version of the Fender logo which he used in LA. All were stolen from him and not recovered. Never saw any mention of him owning & playing any other basses in that period, and never heard any mention of him ever owning another 61/62.

The Duke & the King were a great band who split up after two albums (released 2009 & 2010)

If you'd like a huge collection of recordings of all of Bach's organ works played on original baroque organs, Dr James Kibbie's recordings are available at no cost at: http://www.blockmrecords.org/bach/

Never heard of the Fathead, but I used a Groove tubes fatfinger to remove the effects of a deadspot at the 5th fret of the G string on a jazz bass. Could the lack of volume when the band is playing due to another band member's stomping over the frequencies - such as a bass drum with boosted eq going through the PA or a guitar that sounds great on its own, but doesn't just occupy its own part of the frequency spectrum and has too much boost on the lows and low mids?

would it fit in a rifle case? if so it would be just the thing for starting an incident at the airport

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It shouldn't be promoted as a live concert when they do that; it should be called reverse karaoke

I used to own a pair of ashborys - I tried a set of Road Toad Pahoehoe black polyurethane strings (as used on the Kala U-Bass) on one of them which didn't have as much of a double-bass tone as the standard Ashbory silicone strings, but they did seem to stay in tune a lot better. I also had a harley benton uke bass (actually went thought three of them due to QC issues) and didn't like the thundergut strings as they stretched and went out of tune all the time like the ashborys.

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I Have a '72 daphne blue musicmaster bass but a mustang in that colour would be perfect. I'm not sure it would work so well for a long scale though.

The pickups were definitely added - mustangs always had the small rounded split pickup until the prawn-shop one came out with the big chrome telebass humbucker a few years ago. Anyone else think that Tina looks just like Errol from the TV series 'Uncle' in that video?

I have (or have had) a few behringer pedals - most have been pretty good, but the tuner pedal was crap for bass. The BDI is great for adding a bit of a snarl to the bass, but the ADI-21 (the brown acoustic equivalent to the BDI) really warms up an electric upright bass - it sounded wonderful when I had my old Dean Pace, and I still use it with my NS-CR5M I often see criticism of the build quality of behringer pedals - particularly the plastic housing, but I've never had any problems with mine. My ancient BDI-21 looks a bit battered and abused but still works perfectly. Out of interest anyone actually ever had a behringer pedal's housing disintegrate underfoot?

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The pickguard makes the bass look like a toilet seat to me

LaBella make a danelectro-specific set of flats. I have some on my longhorn (29.5" Scale), but they might do similar rounds. These have tiny balls like a guitar string or the current president of the USA so I wouldn't be surprised if these would be suitable for your Dan Armstrong.

My CIJ mustang didn't come with one, but I added one as I like the vintage look. I don't really use it, but it is good for getting a deep wooly tone - particularly if you have some length on the nails of the right hand (eg for playing ukulele) where playing fingerstyle could have too bright an attack. Even if you don't use it, it doesn't get in the way.

My stock answer for daft daft song requests was "we don't do that one, but the next song contains some of the same notes". Also if someone looked like they were about to make a request, the singer would announce on the mic "All song requests must be submitted on a fifty pound note."

The build quality on mine is pretty good - and there's even some nice flaming in the maple of the neck. I put a hi-mass bridge on mine as I had a spare one in the bits box. If the grub screws are sticking up due to the the saddles being low when the action & neck relief is set correctly, shimming the neck will enable you to raise the saddles. I wanted to upgrade the cheapo pickups, pots & socket, so I dropped in a set of EMG PJX pickups which sound pretty massive although I tend to only use the P for a big chunky tone (with TI JF324 flats).

Perhaps bass players in 80s tribute acts have been identified as a particularly high-spending demographic?

I think the need for a truss rod tweak twice a year is more likely to be from seasonal changes rather than climate change. Also the offical line from the White House is now that climate change does not exist Over 10 years of using wall hangers doesn't seem to have caused any warping on the necks of any of my basses & guitars.

The way Yahoo! is going at the moment with the sale to verizon, I'd be wary to relying on Flickr being around for a long time. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/10/yahoo_renamed_altaba_mayer_to_quit/

Maybe the selling tickets thing is that they believe they're doing you a favour by letting you play as your band will be 'getting exposure' so you have to prove that you are worthy of the opportunity. If that is the case it alters the dynamic, and donatating your time and skills will not be appreciated.

Perhaps he was using the music stand for the last song on the Folsom Prison album, Greysone Chapel, which was written by Glen Sherley, an inmate at the prison who gave the song to Johnny via a preacher the night before the concert.

My candy apple red VM SS jag cost me £165 from Thomann soon after they first came out. I had to send back the first one I received as one of the neck screws was put in at a wonky angle and the end split could be seen through a split it made in the side of the neck heel. The replacement is a good one - it is very light & resonant, and now has a few upgrades - EMG-X PJ pickups (& pots etc), vintage style jazz bass knobs, a hi-mass bridge & Thomastic TI-JF324 flatwounds. It was my main gigging bass with my last band and is a very comfy little instument to play. It looks like the neck was made from a quarter-sawn blank from the grain pattern and there's some flame in there as well which was an unexpected bonus. As far as I can see the spec of the instument included the pack is much the same apart from the sunburst finish - I doubt there would be any substsantial differences in build or hardware.

I had one made back in 2008 from chandler guitars (pickguard.us) in the US for my CIJ Mustang bass in aged white pearl celluloid to replace the underwhelming stock dark tort one. I requested the two holes for the 'tug bar'. It wasn't cheap but it came out absolutly perfect and on my bass within a month of ordering it. I think they have access to all of the fender shapes in a massive variety of colours/patterns and can do customised versions also.