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Happy Jack

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  1. ??? No idea what you're talking about. As usual. What a load of bollocks. And ... blocked. Bye Bye.
  2. Precisely, You've hit the nail on the head, as always. Musicians creating 'perfect' music in a 'perfect environment' using a virtual digital studio, knowing that the sound will never be re-created live, is absolutely fine for many people; in fact, it was The Beatles more than any other band that started us down that road. But some of us prefer to hear (and to play) 'real' music where we play it in real time alongside other musicians who feel the same way. You should try it ... you might like it.
  3. AFAIK the 465 was a significant upgrade on the 315 & 325, which are the only SGC fivers I've owned. I imagine that fed through into a better neck too.
  4. I agree with the 19mm string spacing but I also find a 35" scale length improves things generally on a fiver. YMMV The Lakland Skyline series are decent value (the huge premium for the USA models I think is unjustified) but you should also check out Mike Lull basses, which have the benefit of being quite lightweight. IME converting a successful 4-string design into a fiver doesn't always work. I've been known on Basschat for 16+ years as a champion of SGC Nanyo Bass Collection basses, but every fiver I've had from them (and that's three at the last count) had a rubbish flobadob B-string. Sometimes it does of course ... my frontline bass in my covers band is a Rickenbacker 4003s5 and the B on that is lovely, despite being 'only' a 33" scale.
  5. Feeling the love here, guys. 😂 Disparaging The Beatles has been a thing for as long as I can remember. Some think it makes them sound cool, some think it makes them sound clever, occasionally it really is just a matter of taste. And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. 💋
  6. I always look for the 'weasel words'. When a guitar dealer says "the rest of the parts appear original" [my emphasis] then I know I'm being lied to.
  7. 12 o'clock throughout, and only tweak stuff if I really need to. It doesn't matter; nobody is listening anyway. 🙄
  8. It's music, Woody, but not as we know it ...
  9. This advert just popped up in my Facebook feed. I am NOT affiliated with these people, this is NOT a recommendation, I do NOT know anything about them, but this is a perennial topic on BC so if someone else wants to give them a try, I'd be interested to hear how it went ...
  10. There's nowt wrong with Behringer powered cabs as long as you don't believe their numbers. If they claim 1000W then just assume they're actually putting out 250W each and you'll not go far wrong. In a room that size, 2x250W tops should be way more than you need. Rather than worrying about overall power, you'll probably need to concentrate on getting the EQ right.
  11. So to recap, the body and neck have been ruined, and all original parts swopped out except the bridge and the control knobs, but he still wants nearly £2k for it? Just as a matter of interest, after all those ... ahem ... "modifications" how exactly can you prove that this even started life as a Rickenbacker rather than an Ibanez or a Greco?
  12. You'll have seen these, or clones thereof, in rehearsal rooms and home studios the length & breadth of the country. You may even have seen one in the wild at a pub/club gig. Jolly good devices, built like a tank and a real Swiss Army knife of a unit, but they tend to have had hard lives and usually have knobs and/or functions that may still be knobs ... only they don't function. 🙄 That's why this one is so silly cheap. I'm not listing it as 'spares or repairs' because most of it works just fine, but there are enough bits that aren't fine that I have better solutions available for my rehearsal space at home. FULL DISCLOSURE: 1. The RCA Phono inputs have a horrible buzz through them. I just use two of the eight channels instead; problem solved. 2. The Master Volume has a horrible buzz when set to low volumes. The buzz disappears at about the 12 o'clock mark so I set the individual channel levels low instead. 3. One of the two speaker output control switches only works intermittently. I either use the unit in mono or leave the switches alone. Would I gig with it? Yes, if I had to ... I've used worse at gigs. As I say, the unit works once you know your way around it. But now I need it shifted so I'll start it here for a week just to see if there's any Basschat interest before reverting to eBay. Like all these old-skool mixer amps it's a heavy lump. It's still a one-hand lift but you'd not be wanting to stroll across a supermarket carpark carrying it if you could avoid it. I have zero interest in trying to package & despatch this, so it's collection only either from Harrow HA1 or from one of my gigs - see links in my sig.
  13. Rather than giving up bass, I've added a new instrument alongside it - keyboards. Very diverting, a real wake-up call for my synapses, and an entirely new outlet for my GAS.
  14. By far the most common reason we're given is
  15. I've been in there a lot over the years, going back to when it was Chappells. Maybe because of the whole flagship thing, when they do a Sale they do it properly and you get som real bargains ... assuming of course that you're interested in what's in the Sale. 🙄 More to the point, don't let the general swankiness of the showroom prevent you from making an offer; it's not awfully awfully English but don't ask = don't get.
  16. One of the nicest necks I ever had was on a Status Artist GP, a standard Precision neck only in graphite. When I asked Rob Green about a 5-string 35" scale neck he said that he had no mold for one and no plans to make one.
  17. On a more general note, if there's an area, in any country, where there are musos desperate to gig but no venues then Shirley the answer is obvious ... put on your own gigs. Find a friendly pub/club or just use a local village hall or whatever, and let's do the show right here! If it's a complete flop then don't do it again, and you've answered your own question about the shortage of venues. If it's a huge success then congratulations ... you are the next Robert Stigwood.
  18. I much prefer gigging within an hour's drive of my front door. As you know Billy, that means that I cover much the same ground as you ... fanning out from NW London to cover Middx and Herts plus bits of Beds, Bucks and Essex. I'm constantly astonished that there are still people (my age, not teenagers) who will happily gig the way bands used to in the 60s/70s, and drive to Nottingham for a pub/club gig on a Friday, then to Southampton on the Saturday. It's not that I can't hack that (I rather like the drive home after a decent gig) but I'd only do that if I really had to. In context @Bluewine, it's always worth remembering that on average distances over here are ridiculously short compared to motoring about the MidWest or whatever. In England, driving 100 miles to a gig is usually considered outrageous, whereas in much of the USA that will barely get you to the local shops. 🙄
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