Happy Jack

As to appetite, yup, I'd be up for another one. Probably a bit tricky to get one up and running during 2017 mind ...

[quote name='bazztard' timestamp='1506134411' post='3376685'] I think I'll take the word of a successful million selling guitarist who played on a whole tour with Chuck over someone on a forum who never played with him, no offence [/quote] Who was the successful million selling guitarist you are quoting?

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1506071700' post='3376213'] What do you sprinkle on your cereals Jack? [/quote] Minims, plus a handful of crotchets.

Yank, I get that, but if you play a generic Chuck lick at the start of every song and then repeat it all the way through, then every supposedly Chuck song sounds just the same. Don't ask me how I know. A good example is Around And Around. The intro is really very simple and short, no need for the full-on Johnny B Goode thang. The structure is Chorus / Verse / Chorus / etc. and that second chorus is where Chuck plays an amazingly simple lick with a terrific bell-like tone. Most guitarists don't play that - hell, they don't even try. They just try to chug their way through the chorus. Even those who play the lick play it low down on the neck with a muddy Les Paul sound, almost as if they're using distortion. It's a great song, it will survive that treatment, but that's not what we're looking for. We WANT that terrific bell-like tone.

I've tried so hard to get into his music. Failed every time. He's a closed book to me, I'm afraid, but basically I don't really dig that whole jazz/funk/fusion thang and that's hardly his fault!

So I'm reading the manual for my new (pre-loved) Genz Benz Shuttle 9.2 over breakfast - as you do - when I discover that there's more to life than Heft. There is also Girth. Allow me to quote: [i]"When driving the power amp hard the player can feel increased heft and girth of the individual notes, while maintaining dynamics and articulation."[/i] Why were we not told? In fairness, being something of a history buff, I initially assumed that this was in fact a historical reference. Many people know that Harold Godwinson's brother Tostig died at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. (No, this was not a case of rioting football hooligans.) What many do not realise is that he had two other brothers, Heft and Girth, who died alongside King Harold at the Battle of Hastings.

Your mate does a pretty impressive job.

That would account for the waltz being played under the third verse then ...

What, you mean turn up late without a band, have a quick run through with some local guys in the Gents toilet, play a 30-minute set and then walk off, no encores? Sounds like a winner to me ...

We're trying to re-form Mick's Lawmen as a strictly old-school rock & roll band. All we need is a guitarist. OK, slightly more accurately, all we need is a guitarist who can play the classic rock & roll guitar licks. You know - Mick Green, Buddy Holly, Scotty Moore. And, of course, Chuck Berry. Now I grew up listening to Chuck, sometimes filtered through The Beatles and The Stones, more frequently in the raw original. I recognise that they're harder than they sound, but I had no idea how hard. We must have had half a dozen guitarists pass through so far, and not one of them was able to[list] [*]Match the right intro lick to the right song, [*]Play all the famous Chuck licks, [*]Play the licks in the right position on the neck, [*]Actually, y'know, [i][b]sound [/b][/i]a bit like Chuck. [/list] We've had the ludicrous situation of a bassist (me) having to show multiple guitarists how the lick goes - on bass, of course - while the drummer (Mick) tells them how to adjust the EQ on their guitar & amp to get closer to the right sound. These are guys who can match perfectly to Mick Green, Buddy Holly, Scotty Moore, Eddie Cochran, Duane Eddy, you name it. They're competent guitar players. But Chuck Berry? They all [i][b]think [/b][/i]they can play Chuck, some of them play a bit like Keith Richard, most of them get nowhere near. When we started looking, it never occurred to Mick and me that the ability to play Sweet Little Sixteen would be a deal-breaker. Did we miss something?

[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1505984307' post='3375596'] ... the newer ones are more plasticky and not so good. [/quote] Much like the music, then.

There you go: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessories/q-parts-metal-series-straplock

Reverting to Mick's actual question, decorative straplocks have been around for ages. I use some with a sort of 'Sonne In Splendoure' design, I got them years ago in both gold (coloured) and silver (coloured) and they work just fine.

[quote name='WalMan' timestamp='1505941158' post='3375438'] I can also chuck the [url="https://www.keithmcmillen.com/products/12-step/"]McMillen 12Step[/url] & [url="https://www.davesmithinstruments.com/product/mopho/"]DSI MoPho[/url] in the car if anyone wants a look at those. [/quote] Far Canal, that MoPho is pretty 80s-tastic ... an MTV 12" mix in a box.

Who needs to focus when it's only £1250?

Bought Geoff's Genz Benz Shuttle in possibly the fastest deal of 2017. Great attitude, clear comms, superb packaging, unbelievably quick. Just about as good as it gets. [size=4] [/size]

Whilst I don't necessarily agree with the sentiment, I love the way you expressed it.

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' timestamp='1505850475' post='3374802'] Where coupling is concerned that happens when the cab is less than 1/4 wavelength from a boundary, be it floor or wall. 1 meter is 1/4 wavelength at 85Hz, so you won't lose low end coupling with even a tall stand. [/quote] As ever Bill, you supply exactly what we needed to know.

My concern would be how on earth he plans to set up his new 5-string ...

[quote name='bassman7755' timestamp='1505514857' post='3372595'] Summer of '69 is apparently not about the year 1969 [/quote]

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