Happy Jack

Where are the LED side markers?

Well yes, the reading bit is important, but it does help to write down the part correctly ...

Yes, yes, yes, we get that, but what about the important bit? How many songs did you play?

Why has nobody mentioned Moondance?

Reckon I'll go with the Minions on this one ...

Anything by Jaco Pastorius, especially the Best Of double album. Frankly, I'd rather listen to The Bay City Rollers.

Then I'd be 11 ... probably a tad young for this gig.

I think ours is still halfway through Winnie The Pooh ...

Are squeezy washing-up bottles involved at all?

The FretFX website is pretty informative, but I haven't yet worked out how you actually attach the LED strip to a bass! I have built-in LEDs on my Streamline (with an on/off switch) and I'd happily add side LEDs to any bass. I wear reading glasses (as one does at my age) and the side dots on a bass are exactly the same distance from my eyes as a paperback book. I'm sick to death of wearing reading glasses at gigs ...

I have two sets of ACS, one with 15db filters and one with 25db filters. I hate gigging with the 25s because I get the same "distance" thing as the OP. I only use them when I'm playing with silly loud bands, and that's rare.

Good luck with the Search Engine Optimization with such a bloody silly name. That's right up there with The Presidents Of The United States.

Depends whether or not you're Rickenbacker, I guess ...

He'd be asking for more if only he had better than a few blurry photos taken with his phone ...

"BANDMASTER, BASSMAN, BULLET, CHAMP, DELUXE REVERB, DURA-TONE, ESQUIRE, Stylized F (in Thick & Thin Script), FENDER (standard and in Stylized Thick & Thin Script), FRONTMAN, the two dimensional guitar headstock profiles commonly found on FENDER TELECASTER, STRATOCASTER, PRECISION BASS and JAZZ BASS electric guitars, J BASS, JAG-STANG, JAGUAR, JAZZ BASS, JAZZMASTER, MUSTANG, NOCASTER, P BASS, PASSPORT, PRECISION BASS, PRINCETON, RELIC, ROAD WORN, SFX, SHOWMAN, SHOWMASTER, SQUIER, STARCASTER, STRAT, STRATOCASTER, SUNN, SUPER BULLETS, SUPER REVERB, TELE, TELECASTER, THE SPIRIT OF ROCK-N-ROLL, TONE MASTER, TWIN REVERB, VIBRO CHAMP, VIBRO-KING, and VIBROLUX are the trademarks of Fender that may appear in this Fender Property and that are registered in one or several categories of goods with the United States Patent & Trademark Office." Outstanding work by their lawyers! I can't wait to see then try to sue someone for using BULLET, CHAMP, FRONTMAN, JAGUAR, PASSPORT or SHOWMAN. In other news, I have now trademarked CAR, BANANA, OAK TREE and FRUSTRATION. If you wish to use any of these terms, please contact my lawyers for my licensing terms ...

Hah! I wasn't at that show, and my GAS for an ali bass goes all the way back to https://www.bassplayer.com/artists/retro-rama-1930s-pfretzschner-aluminum-upright-bass I only read the article in the first place because I knew Dave back when we shared a flat in London in the 70s.

Whoah! Stealth paint job: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SGC-NANYO-Bass-Collection-SB310-series-Bass-Guitar/163114255300?hash=item25fa5e03c4:g:OLIAAOSwESZbL3R3

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aria-pro-II-bass/323317547715?hash=item4b473a42c3:g:tncAAOSwLhZbKnY0 Me neither. I suspect that LSD would be required.

I have a horrible feeling that it involves using a screwdriver on the screws shown in photo #6. So this is what - a sawn-off, fully-loaded Strat guitar body with a Jap headless neck screwed to it? Even if the neck came from a short-scale bass (30.5") it's hard to imagine that the frets will be in the right place for a guitar (25.5") hybrid monstrosity like this.

That's pretty much perfect. I've had a LOT of vintage Hofners and that relic'ing would certainly have me fooled. Far more subtle than the ludicrous crap that people normally shell out for, and wear marks that tell the right story. Take a look at the rear of the headstock photos and look at the glimpse you get of the wear on the side of the neck between F and A. Bang on the money.

Click on your 'zone' at the top right hand corner, go to Profile, and you should see your 'Feed' where you can type a status update. If it's not there, then you have disabled the feature under Options and will need to re-enable it.

Sheperd Neame?

Silvie and I saw Zepparella live in Brooklyn a couple of years ago. The club was basically a slightly bigger version of The Marquee set in the centre center of Hipster Paradise. They were really very good indeed. They absolutely nailed the songs, and the musicianship was just top-knotch throughout. We'd see them again in a flash if the opportunity arose.

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