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  1. Happy Jack
    I'm perfectly happy to let other musicians use my backline. So long as they have an MSc in Electronics Engineering. And the Certificate to prove it.
  2. Happy Jack
    Yup, I look at photos of myself on stage and I invariably look grim and miserable. I have NO IDEA WHY. Actually I was having a great time, the sound guy had got my bass exactly right, and I was playing well. You wouldn't believe it from the photos, would you?
  3. Happy Jack
    Flaky musicians ... who knew?
  4. Happy Jack
    [quote name='NJE' timestamp='1501495545' post='3344968'] I hate the fact that huge swathes of the population tune in to watch shallow, vain, vacuous people on love island [color=#ff0000][i][b]pretend [/b][/i][/color]their are in love and have sex on national television ... [/quote] No! Say it ain't so! Their love is true and will last for ever ... it must be ...
  5. Happy Jack
    Aguilar TH500 or Gallien Krueger MB500 or Genz Benz etc. etc. etc. There are SO many really good Class D heads out these now, and ultimately it comes down to taste. I have a stopwatch running to see how long it takes for someone to ask me why I haven't listed a Markbass ...
  6. Happy Jack
    Having now seen this, I'm intrigued by "[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Will include a female to female jack adaptor, this let's you stick the reciever in the loop of your guitar strap".[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]I have absolutely no idea what that means! Surely the very last place you want a wireless receiver is six inches from the transmitter?[/font][/color]
  7. Happy Jack
    On my screen, this topic reads "Band needed for private fun". I'd be up for that ...
  8. Happy Jack
    [size=4]Who writes this stuff? Andertons or Gibson?[/size] [i][size=4][color=#231F20]"You have 2 volume controls for each pickup so that you can blend the pickups however you want to with a master tone control."[/color][/size][/i] [size=4][color=#231F20]Ignoring the fact that this sentence barely passes (or parses) muster as English, that could imply that the bass has four volume controls, or in fact five. In practice, it has three knobs, and presumably at least one of them is a tone control.[/color][/size] It's a pig-ugly bass anyway.
  9. Happy Jack
    http://www.affairsoftheharp.com/harps-for-sale-hire/ Don't know them and I know nothing about harps, but I rather like their name.
  10. Happy Jack
    [quote name='KingBollock' timestamp='1501454438' post='3344817'] And my careers officer's name was Hugh Pugh. [/quote] Presumably the guy in the next office was called Barney McGrew?
  11. Happy Jack
    Does she do Roadside Recovery?
  12. Happy Jack
    There are no vintage Hofners with bolt-on necks. If you know this to be a 60s bass, then it's not a Hofner. If it's by someone else, then it's not an Eko or a Kent, because it's too closely based on the Hofner design and uses too many Hofner parts. In truth, to me it looks like a buggered-about Chinese-made modern copy. Is it a true hollow body (unlikely with a bolt-on) or is there a block of solid wood running down the middle?
  13. Happy Jack
    Yeh, I asked Silvie to reverse it to correct the polarity, but being a lefty herself she downright refused. Bloody difficult woman, that Silvia.
  14. Happy Jack
    [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Just%20Stuff/Music%20and%20Musicians/Cutout_zpsfk4hq2l8.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Just%20Stuff/Music%20and%20Musicians/Cutout_zpsfk4hq2l8.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
  15. Happy Jack
    [quote name='gareth' timestamp='1501341780' post='3344150'] Jack Cassidy [/quote] Confused ... did you mean David Cassidy or Jack Casady?
  16. Happy Jack
    For a pub band, these things are hard to beat: https://www.thomann.de/gb/behringer_rx_1202_fx.htm Stick it in a Gator case and you have a lightweight, rugged mixer which can sit on top of any flat surface with the controls actually facing the bass player, and which provides a hard surface for all the gubbins you want next to you at a gig. I've had mine for about eight years now, it's done hundreds of gigs and never had any problem.
  17. Happy Jack
    I'm pretty sure that's a '67. Hofner experimented with a one-piece back in 63/64, discontinued, tried again in 1967, then ceased for a long time. Every '68 and '69 I've ever seen had the more common two-piece back. Mind you, as already pointed out, Hofner had zero interest in consistency and ran fairly large parts bins. It's quite possible that your bass has a one-piece back made in 1967 but which was not incorporated into an actual bass until a few years later. If so, then that would be the first example I've ever seen, but it's perfectly possible. More importantly, that price for a genuine German-made Hofner is excellent [[i]trans. - "cheap"[/i]], regardless of the exact date. My lovely 1964 means that I really can't justify buying this, but GLWTS.
  18. Happy Jack
    Electronics can have frets?
  19. Happy Jack
    But what tone would you use for a discussion that disappears up its own fundament(al)?
  20. Happy Jack
    Keep those pre-CBS Precisions well hidden. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40724397
  21. Happy Jack
    This drummer is at the wrong gig.
  22. Happy Jack
    No one except you will hear any change in tone. No one except you will care. No one will be watching you or listening to you. Unless you cock it up quite spectacularly of course. Negative? Cynical? No, not a bit of it. It's very liberating. You can concentrate on enjoying yourself. If that includes fiddling about with your tone then that's fine. It's all good. Just don't expect anyone else to be interested.
  23. Happy Jack
    With a bit of work on your technique, you could probably get rid of that strange clicking noise.
  24. Happy Jack
    [quote name='Treb' timestamp='1500984086' post='3341458'] There's no substitute for the real thing... [/quote] At least I'll get my washing done.
  25. Happy Jack
    Hell's Teeth! You actually managed to listen to more than 30 seconds of that? Respect!
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