Happy Jack

Interesting comment, Chris. Was this just a personal thing, or is there some sonical logical reasoning for it? In my 3-piece band with very little by way of lead guitar work going on, I'm using a 5-string plus occasional FX (octaver, chorus, +2 octave guitar effect) but I'd be happy to experiment with different approaches.

What about using the two pickups individually? Is each pickup on the new bass running at about the same volume? Obviously the neck pickup tends to sound louder anyway on a J (IME anyway) but if the combined volume is less than the sum of its parts, one pickup may have been mounted the wrong way around.

Google Calendar? It's not social media, it's in the Cloud, it's free.

And don't forget Winona ...

The seller is going to use the money raised to pay for a Basic Photography course ...

Roger also told us that he spends hours at a time here on Basschat, lapping up all the constructive criticism from the industry legends who post here. Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! No, he didn't.

Because you need to know when to hold 'em?

This list contains no Abba, no Beatles, no Rolling Stones, no Clash ....

I'm rather looking forward to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/springboard-west-2020-band-brew-crawl-tickets-66438833339?fbclid=IwAR1aiJZqs6_1zvPKcEDh5GknPeZUzj-BpV8rf9-4s9WkVFNh9w278RE0TMI

Sorry to follow up with such an obvious question, but what happens if we submit a 'set list' comprising just the two originals?

Can you just run (part of) this by me again. I play in a rockabilly band where we currently perform just two originals written by the band leader. We play them at every gig, and we play mainly pubs. Were we to register the band leader for PRS, are you saying that he could or at least might be able to 'claim' back £6.00 after each live gig? This sounds dangerously like money for nothing (and your kicks for free).

I'd be very happy to visit Winston-Salem and check out this guy's operation. Yes, his output is often jaw-dropping, either in terms of ludicrous design or just the sheer ugliness of most of it. BUT he has a huge number of satisfied customers, he makes no false claims, and I for one would love the opportunity to play a dozen of his basses back-to-back on the off-chance that I might actually like them.

They're both basses, and they sound like basses.

I can let you have some of my Mum's old curtains, if you like. There's enough material there for at least two of those jackets ...

Try working for a voluntary organisation or charity to see WhatsApp diarrhoea in full flow. Don't ask me how I know ...

Reckon yours looks better, especially the back. So ... how does it sound?

Expensive, very heavy, and too many options ... but they're very good at what they do. Not something you'll often read about a beanie.

Yup, it's no good livin' on a prayer ...

Should there not have been a 'Ta-Daaaaaa!' in there somewhere?

Ah yes, the addiction of Amersham, the lure of Leighton Buzzard, the craic of Camberley, the buzz of Bracknell ... the sheer living hell of Hemel.

73 gigs, with 6 bands. 10 of those gigs and 4 of the bands were depping. As of today, I have 71 gigs in the diary for 2020. This could get busy ...

Are you still playing that, Owen?

It's not your age, it's the mileage. I was 63 last week, but I've only been a gigging musician for a dozen years so I still get a real buzz out of doing this. The fact that I'm retired means that, far from gigging being hard to fit into my life, I can build my entire life around gigging. Best of all ... Silvie feels the same way!

You'd need to add a torsal twist to that design, just to make it, y'know, complete.

That's cheating!