Happy Jack
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In the time it took you to type all this, you could have learned how to use it properly ... -
When people ask about it, do tell them that you've installed a Brass WonderTone Hydraulic Boost Module which uses carbon dioxide pressurised at 80psi to enhance the signal above 1200Hz ...
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The original 24-minute programme is on YouTube as a single file. Here it's been 'upgraded' but split into three ... play the first and it should link on automatically. Yes, this is Hemel Hempstead in 1971. Hemel Hempstead, this is Yes in 1971. https://youtu.be/Ztzx89NvzOM https://youtu.be/htqmstXBByo https://youtu.be/TzVjIOC5FhA
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It's a bit runny ...
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It's his decision to make, not mine, and I can't criticise him for it. On t'other hand, I'm not enough of a hypocrite to pretend that I'm not disappointed. He's well aware that this situation can't last and that sooner or later he will have to come off Shielding; he just didn't feel 4th July was the right date. Fair play.
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Until Lockdown hit, any Fri or Sat night that we weren't gigging ourselves, @Silvia Bluejay and I would routinely go and check out the competition, or at least the venue.
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Sad to relate, the third band member (who is vulnerable and has been Shielding) felt the risk was too great ... no gig.
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Are you sure that's not just the postage?
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Has it still got an hour to go?
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2020 Year Planner
Happy Jack replied to Happy Jack's topic in Accessories & Other Musically Related Items For Sale
Not until 30th June ... -
I use the 3-finger plucking technique extensively with my longbow. Does that count?
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2020 Year Planner
Happy Jack replied to Happy Jack's topic in Accessories & Other Musically Related Items For Sale
I wasn't allowed to list it for less than a pound! -
Lovely bass ... shame you couldn't find a matching set of strings.- 28 replies
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Bought to support two active, gigging bands with 80 gigs in the diary between them, but it turns out that I didn't need it after all. The cancelled gigs should come off with a bit of thinners, nail polish remover or something. Otherwise in perfect condition, all fully functional. No gigbag, I'm afraid.
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For me, the sad thing is that I never really appreciated that Priest was actually a bass player. Sweet came to prominence when I was about 13 and as far as I was concerned Priest was the one playing the funny-looking guitar and delivering those wonderfully arch lyrics. Great band, loved them to bits, Priest was my favourite member (of course) but I knew nothing about bass guitars in those days.
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*** WITHDRAWN FOR REFIN *** Ovation Magnum III (1980)
Happy Jack replied to Happy Jack's topic in Basses For Sale
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At least a fiver ... -
Could someone please point me at the app which allows you to put silly drawn-on glasses on your photograph. I want to avoid it.
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You shouldn't take these things clitorally ...
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*** WITHDRAWN FOR REFIN *** Ovation Magnum III (1980)
Happy Jack replied to Happy Jack's topic in Basses For Sale
I took it down to Bow Finishing (Godstone) to have it stripped and varnished to match my Ovation Magnum II. That was on 18th March, and the place went into Lockdown two days later. Chris Bowling sanded / buffed one patch of the body to see if that 'bloom' would rub out - it didn't. It hasn't been touched since, and is still in Chris's workshop. So the bass could still be for sale if you want it, but it now has definite 'damage' to the finish in one place, so you'd either need to tart that up again or carry on with my intended refin. -
Troo dat.
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Very satisfying, but at certain times of the year really quite demanding. If you're retired (like me) or self-employed then fine; if you have a 9-5 or a young family then best postpone for a while!
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Not a paying audience ... we'd be doing it for the exposure.
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I have about two acres (think a square 100 yards on each side, or two football pitches, or about 50 Olympic swimming pools, or 200 London buses) set in the middle of many square miles of mature beech trees, planted before WW2 to supply the furniture industry centred on High Wycombe. By the time the trees had matured, Ikea had happened. No more furniture industry, so the big forestry estates parcelled up their woodlands into small plots of 'leisure woodland'. When I stand in my measly two acres, it feels like I own the entire forest.
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Had to learn this for a dep gig with a Northern Soul outfit ... great track.
