Happy Jack

[quote name='mentalextra' timestamp='1470080802' post='3103191'] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el3XNuBTy_Q[/media] RIP Mick [/quote] Thank you! Thank you so much! I've been bombarded with people praising MK ever since I first got involved with this forum, and I never really got what the fuss was all about - tons of talent, but also tons of fx and basslines that only worked with a very idiosyncratic style of music. As regular gigger with pub rock bands, modern originals bands, blues bands, northern soul bands, etc. I could never see (hear) what it was that I could take from his playing. This track, on the other hand, oh yes - there are licks, riffs and note choices there that make MK sound like a regular bass player who just happens to be really, really good. Now that's something I can at least aspire to.

If you get nowhere playing gigs at military bases, try playing basses at military gigs.

I travel as far as the pub. Why would I go any further? And not much point in stopping before I get there.

[quote name='dlloyd' timestamp='1473372529' post='3129666'] Yes. If reading music somehow interferes with the groove, it's because you suck at reading. [/quote] As a non-reader myself I'm quite happy to be told that this is the case, but for yer average pub rock band (like wot I play in mainly) there's more to it than the musical groove. It's essential to interact with your fellow band members, and with the audience, and to appear to be having a great time even if you're not. Eyes and teeth, boys, eye and teeth! If we all spend the gig either staring at our fretting hand or - even worse - staring at bits of paper, then no one will be listening to our groove. They will, quite rightly, assume that we are as dull as we look and take their custom elsewhere. YMMV of course.

[quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1473336489' post='3129226'] but then you get Keith Moon. [/quote]

I recently bought a Sandblasted Precision, the only new Fender I've ever bought. I went to look at it simply it was so pretty. I bought it because it sounds so good.

I use either a PJB Bass Buddy or a PJB Big Head through PJB headphones. Yes, I know, [i]fanboi [/i]and all that, but PJB kit does sound astonishingly good, especially in this sort of rig. My rig(s) don't include the drum machine/metronome thang, but that's because I invariably along with mp3s. If I need a metronome, I have an app on my phone. The Bass Buddy ain't cheap, but has the advantage that it's a real Swiss army knife of a device and can be used a very high-quality pre-amp or EQ device or DI box or ...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BRUBAKER-K-4B-XTREME-2003-10-/222219061347?hash=item33bd49c863:g:uVwAAOSwHoFXsVSr Anyone got a harpoon?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ESP-GrassRoots-G-NS-70-Sho-Ryu-Ken-Nightmare-SAKITO-model-guitar-VERY-RARE-/122116016924?hash=item1c6eae8b1c:g:gdUAAOSweWVXclb8 I don't even [i]play [/i]guitar, but I want to buy this ...

[URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/General%20View%202_zpsuchn2ciz.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20CURRENT/General%20View%202_zpsuchn2ciz.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

A drummer who's a psychopath ... surely not? Bwahahahahaha!!!!

[quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1472997022' post='3125859'] ... he's a lovely bloke and would say that on a friend only basis, we'd all get on with him famously. [/quote] [quote name='bassjim' timestamp='1473174108' post='3127676'] If the guy is a bit of a psychopath then its very awkward. [/quote] Well it didn't take long for "he's a lovely bloke" to get re-interpreted as "a bit of a psychopath". Do people actually [i][b]read [/b][/i]threads before jumping in?

Far Canal ... £425. Someone did well there.

[quote name='bassace' timestamp='1473156493' post='3127398'] ... and all for a tenner including lunch, tea and coffee. [/quote] Danish? There had better be Danish ...

Taxman - The Beatles Come Together - The Beatles Cissy Strut - The Meters Dazed & Confused - Led Zeppelin Funk #49 - James Gang One Way Out - Allman Brothers Peter Gunn Theme

See post #4.

How much are the amps worth, do you reckon?

Shurely shome mishtake ... that'sh a tuba?

If you're bringing a Howlett, Owen, I may have to bring a B-stock Deko Harley Benton from Thomann so that we can A/B them.

I've just realised that, technically speaking, and in a thoroughly pedantic sort of way, I should have ticked the "Up to 10,000 people" range. Up to 10,000 must, by definition, include any number less than 10,000.

[quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1473083786' post='3126710'] ... or how many were listening. [/quote] Hold on Trev, you just introduced a variable that no one is going to be comfortable with.

[quote name='markstuk' timestamp='1473081752' post='3126672'] Natural wear is acceptable :-) [/quote] Is this a reference to un-dyed shorts and leather sandals?

I try not to look. I like a blind data.

That YouTube link also led me to one of all-time faves from that period, [i]Tap Turns On The Water[/i] by CCS. Great great track, and still sounds wonderful today. That was the point at which the really dark side of football hooliganism started to appear, but also some of the wittier use of pop songs by footie crowds (forget that [i]You'll Never Walk Alone[/i] maudlin nonsense). Bristol City adopted the CCS hit: Tap turns on the cider Watch the cider flow Cider makes the Tote End Watch the Tote End go We all come from Bristol Come from Bristol Town We all come from Bristol So get yer knickers down

[quote name='karlfer' timestamp='1473081593' post='3126670'] I apologise, but I've been itching to post the "worst miming with a Rickenbacker" clip. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWaJ6vNyvaw"]https://www.youtube....h?v=aWaJ6vNyvaw[/url] You were warned! [/quote] Hah! I remember watching that. They were a bunch of young scallies who couldn't believe their luck at getting on TOTP by playing the same chord for three minutes. And people used to sneer at Quo!