Happy Jack

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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If they haven't found someone after six months, there may be a reason ...

Way back in the dim and distant past (the 70s) I can easily remember rape cases being dismissed in pub chat because the victim had the nerve to go out wearing a mini-skirt ... clearly "she was asking for it". That was the phrase that was used. I can remember young guys my aged getting beaten up in Shepherds Bush for wearing a Chelsea scarf ... "serves them right, what did they expect?". That was the phrase that was used. I can remember the Black & White Minstrels on TV, and the TV show The Comedians being laden with nig-nog jokes, and talking about going down to the Paki shop ... "we didn't mean anything by it". That was the phrase that was used. Getting older has few advantages, but one of them is that we seem to live in a better place than we were in then. Stupid people have always existed and always will exist, but I suppose we can live in hope that they will die off. Not all of them are men, but men do rather seem to be the source of most of this stomach-turning aggression.

"Fret dressing" always conjures up images of Nigella Lawson worrying over which frock to wear ...

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1505572474' post='3372943'] My names is actually gjones. [/quote] But how on earth do you pronounce that?

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1505482473' post='3372273'] I am skint. [/quote] Money talks, and I'm Speechless.

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1505475026' post='3372179'] I'm familiar with that problem! But not many Saves who lived in Finland. I've been using the name FinnDave from sometime in the late 90s onwards. I moved there in '96, so it was obviously after that! [/quote] So it IS a pseudonym ... your real name is FinnSave.