Happy Jack

Based on my one brief experience of Nashville, I'd say that's true BUT you need to give some context. The Strip in Nashville has easily the highest concentration of music venues that I've ever seen. In three blocks, and on one side of the street, we were well into double figures by the time I stopped counting! Most of the artistes were solo or duet acts, but there were plenty of full bands too. And the general level of competence was simply awesome.

And is he any good at dealing with rust on a Mercedes Vito. I'm happy to supply the body filler.

Nah ... he made a hash of it. #

Get some sleep Bazz, you look tired.

Have you seen my colon:

Better than suppositories, I reckon. I might as well have shoved them up my arse for all the good they did me. Oh no ... wait ...

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1503626526' post='3359808'] Interesting, I reference Milwaukee a lot which is a large city, but I actually live in the suburbs. We never do business in Milwaukee, the clubs and bars don't value live bands and don't pay much. Outside of Milwaukee is where it's at in terms of the better gigs and better pay. Blue [/quote] Strangely enough, something quite similar applies in London too. The combination of crap parking, high booze prices, aggressively anti-noise neighbours, and no space for beer gardens (i.e. smoker's paradise) in Central London means that surprisingly few good music pubs exist within five miles of Charing Cross, and frankly not that many if you push the radius out a few more miles. In my experience you need to be at least out in the suburbs and preferably in the small towns and villages just outside London to get a traditional music pub with a good, lively, interested crowd. It helps that London is so big that each significant suburb is itself a decent-sized city. There are 32 London boroughs and each of the suburban ones (e.g. Harrow, Brent, Hillingdon, etc.) has a population in the region of 250,000.

Now Mark, I've warned you about this sort of thing before. [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Just%20Stuff/Sundry/2398340057_2470917cf1_zps57056e16.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Just%20Stuff/Sundry/2398340057_2470917cf1_zps57056e16.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Just keep him off the lacquer for God's sake ...

You have no soul ...

Damned right! I was BORN rockist mate ...

[quote name='Treb' timestamp='1503571071' post='3359239'] Fender Roscoe Beck bass. IIRC a Bill Lawrence pickup design. [/quote] Yup, good call that. [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20SOLD/Fender%20Roscoe%20Beck%20V%202006%20SOLD/DSCF3606.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20SOLD/Fender%20Roscoe%20Beck%20V%202006%20SOLD/DSCF3606.jpg[/IMG][/URL] I've had two of these and they are lovely basses ... just WAY too heavy! I can't think of any others though.

Not sure whether this is tongue in cheek but, just in case you're serious, your only real hope of putting together something like this is to combine (i) a really sh*t-hot band with (ii) a really sh*t-hot agent. I've been playing pub gigs in London with covers bands for years ... they are NOT easy to get, especially if you're based 200 miles away! London is a big place, yes, with lots of venues, yes, but it also has (probably) as many bands as the rest of the country put together. Blue touchpaper lit ... stands well back to admire the fireworks ...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BOGDON-BOX-BASS-FAULTY/112533183992?hash=item1a33801df8%3Ag%3AKX4AAOSwGdhZmWqm

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[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1503569816' post='3359225'] Skream! - Skream - 2006 Track: Dutch Flowerz - according to ETjr, all you need to know in slightly over four minutes ..... [media]http://youtu.be/yBv4kWsi4TE[/media] [/quote] If that's all ET jr. needs to know, then he may be asking the wrong questions ...

[quote name='Treb' timestamp='1503507794' post='3358825'] The marketplace [i]is[/i] filled with such basses. On a P and a J bass the strings run between the pole pieces. Same idea executed by Leo years before the Old Smoothie. [/quote] Yes, but each string runs between a PAIR of pole pieces. [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/Fender%20Precision%201966%20CURRENT/DSCF4281.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20CURRENT/Fender%20Precision%201966%20CURRENT/DSCF4281.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Where pairs are not being used, then each string passes directly over one of the pole pieces. [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/Mosrite%20The%20Ventures%201965/NBD_edited%2010_zpsb6zddgng.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20CURRENT/Mosrite%20The%20Ventures%201965/NBD_edited%2010_zpsb6zddgng.jpg[/IMG][/URL] This Old Smoothie thingy shares five pole pieces between four strings, which is apparently sufficiently radical for Sterling to wax lyrical about it. So why has no one else done the same thing?

I like that a lot, and it has a few design thingies that other manufacturers might want to think about, but those strings would have to go straight away. And despite the fact that I speak no Japanese, that was one of the best and most informative demos I've seen of a new bass. Seriously, when was the last time you saw a reviewer stand up to show you how the bass balances on the strap? I also liked the fact that the reviewer didn't devote most of the playtime to the usual slapfest w***ery that these videos are so prone to. Much of the time, he was actually playing proper basslines that you could actually play in in actual band at an actual gig. Mind you, despite speaking no Japanese I was still able to recognise "original design", "two-piece", "P/J", "bass", "sound check", and a number of other terms.

Dunno, never heard of them. Post a link, why dontcha?

Old car stereotypes die slowly, don't they? I know exactly what you mean about Alfas, but in my case it's all based on (unhappy) memories from the 80s.

Leave a thread for 24 hours and what do you come back to? Recommendations for 21st Century music include Leonard Cohen. Tributes to the 'Now' series of compilations. Every time I think about that, I hear Brian Glover's voiceover from way back when. http://youtu.be/quupYqZDQBg And no one recommending drum'n'bass.

That Tricky Audio stuff is seriously lush.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1503481663' post='3358530'] I think the idea is, we all have favourite or inspirational players, so name 5 albums that you think epitomise great bass playing. [/quote] I do get that this is supposed to be a fun thing, and not to be taken too seriously, but I'd be quite concerned if anyone actually followed that advice. I can't think of a faster way to discourage a newbie on bass than by pointing him/her at full fat Jaco Pastorius or at Marcus Miller in "look at me! look at me!" mode. If one of my kids genuinely wanted me to recommend some of my favourite bass work to help them get started, I'd just say two words: Duck Dunn.