Happy Jack

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1477289357' post='3161064'] *whistles nonchantly* [/quote] ... while looking up how to spell it ...

Why has he chopped a piece out of the headstock?

Erm ... Mick? Mick? It's in Massachusetts with $57.15 for P&P plus VAT and import duty. And it has a US power supply. And the 'Bass' illuminated bit is at least 2" high. Apart from all that, of course, it's quite cool I suppose.

Nope. Just the Jeff Ament. My T5 is anything BUT an oversized body. [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/Mike%20Lull%20T5%202014%20CURRENT/Thunderbird_zps6wltrwkh.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20CURRENT/Mike%20Lull%20T5%202014%20CURRENT/Thunderbird_zps6wltrwkh.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

[quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1477050675' post='3159505'] i bought my Epiphone TS Les Paul from Macari's. Managed to get quite a bit knocked off. [/quote] Well that's Les Paul headstocks for you ...

[quote name='warwickhunt' timestamp='1476816428' post='3157570'] I 'think' you and I may know the seller! [/quote] [quote name='Chiliwailer' timestamp='1476987360' post='3159069'] I quite like Wayne too, had some very friendly dealings with him and it's always a pleasure to chat to him. [/quote] I always thought he hated Precisions? Or was it just Sunburst ones?

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1477056117' post='3159566'] The guitarist owns the PA. 2x10" tops. They are physically 30% possibility more, of the size of the same 15" tops and a lot lighter. FACT. [/quote] Fat Spanish waiter, you're just a fat Spanish waiter ...

[quote name='gypsyjazzer' timestamp='1477001133' post='3159254'] The type of gigs I play?--Small venue's / Trio / Quartet. Music style?-mixture of jazz / bluegrass'ey style. [/quote] [quote name='TheRev' timestamp='1476960719' post='3158794'] If you want to go [u]really[/u] light weight, then I'd go for a Barefaced One10 cab (15lbs) paired with an Acoustic Image Doubler (2.3lbs) to give you a 300W rig weighing in at 17.3lbs. [/quote] I'd call that sorted.

There's only so many times a band can play [i]Pick Up The Pieces [/i]at a gig ...

Surely the discount in this case is that they [u][i][b]haven't [/b][/i][/u]marked up their price by 15% to reflect the collapse of the UK£ against the US$. Back in the days when we used to speak in old-fashioned phrases, I'd have described this as "cutting off your nose to spite your face". But no one talks like that any more, do they?

As ever with these questions, it helps to know what you're going to use it for! If you plan to play in cool jazz trios on DB and nothing else at all, then I'd point you in one direction. If you're going to play blues and rockabilly on DB, plus you need to do electric gigs with a covers band using the same rig, then I'd point you somewhere else. And in each case, I'd want an idea of your budget too.

My 'bass ladder' exists in a state of permanent turmoil and churn. The one constant is the Mike Lull T5 which is always my first choice in my main band.

Hell, for $125m I reckon I could do a passable English accent.

[quote name='markstuk' timestamp='1476874823' post='3157934'] Hard on the singer without a PA :-) All of the pub/club gigging bands around here use a PA (very rare to have one in the venue) - usually just for the vocals and kick/snare.. Bass levels are matched to the drummer. Vox normally a bit louder than it should be as the assumption is that the guitarists will get louder during the gig anyway. Most don't have a sound engineer, so "mixed" from the side during the performance based on feedback from trusted audience members.. First soundcheck done by people with long leads or wireless :-) [/quote] Exactly this for the pub/club bands I play with. We've tried putting the whole band through our own PA (we have more than enough good-quality kit to do that if we wish) but frankly it's more trouble than it's worth. By the time you take into account everyone's varying need for monitoring and foldback, having each of us bring his own backline is easily the simplest option ... in which case where's the benefit in all going through the PA? We're literally moments away from having JTUK turn up and explain where we're going wrong.

Harry Shearer (Derek Smalls in Spinal Tap) is suing Vivendi for $125m in unpaid royalties arising from the film, which he co-wrote ...

It's not just the scale length that matters, but also where in the body the neck joint sits. Is your 35" scale bass actually a longer stretch for your left arm than the bass it replaced? There's no guarantee that this will be the case.

I always liked the idea of footswitchable flexibility. As marketing concepts go, that's peak Ashdown.

He was interrupted before he could glue a roll alongside it.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1980-RENAISSANCE-T-200G-Lucite-Guitar-early-production-1-of-6-ever-made-/162113465057?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276

Oh alright Steve, I can take a hint. Do you want to borrow my Fishman Platinum Pro? It's the older model, i.e. about five years old, so the styling isn't quite as Space Age as the latest version, but it's pretty much the benchmark (IMHO) for DB pre-amps. If nothing else, it will certainly reveal to you very quickly whether or not your bass/rig could sound better ...

I feel quite embarrassed about this, but every time I see the title of this thread I start singing "you don't have to put on the red light" ...

I've just asked my sister to buy this as a birthday prezzy for my brother-in-law (they live in New York).

[quote name='thehillscorporation' timestamp='1476308230' post='3153302'] I've seen WEM amps and cabs realise good prices on t'bay...can't think why, only one I ever played through sounded like it had paper mache speaker cones !! [/quote] A properly maintained WEM Dominator is one of the nicest sounding combos you'll ever play through. Try a P-bass with flats, played at a sensible volume ... absolutely gorgeous.

[quote name='sbrag' timestamp='1476096877' post='3151153'] My wife likes turquoise so I'm wondering if I can sneak it in despite being skint and not needing it! [/quote] Ah yes, Candy Apple Turqoise ... one of the rarer custom colours used by Fender.