Happy Jack

HP? None of your sauce, old boy.

You can't play bass alongside a bad drummer, not if you want to enjoy yourself, not if you want to improve as a musician. Walk away. End of.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1463755183' post='3053881'] Depends how many people actually do this, then you'd have to add £4 per record to get to the front of THAT queue, and so on... [/quote] Yup ... demand & supply, unfeeling buggers, aren't they?

Unfortunate that they've named this service FADE.

As a businessman, I thought this was excellent: [color=#555555][font=futura-pt][size=5]"If you need something quicker, add £2 per record to get your order moved to the front of the cutting queue."[/size][/font][/color] No sarcasm or irony intended - this is very simple, very obvious, and (I imagine) very effective.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1463654806' post='3053089'] The position of the comma would indicate the latter. [/quote] My baby, she wrote me a latter.

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1463579636' post='3052509'] ... and it looks like a well built instrument otherwise. [/quote] Apart from putting the wrong pickup in the wrong position, of course.

In all fairness it is "[b][b][b][size="+3"]ultra rare & a piece of American Guitar History[/size][/b][/b][/b]", not least because it has been carefully designed to have a neck pickup placed at the bridge, an E string which falls off the side of the neck, variable gaps between all four strings, a misaligned bridge, and some of the cheapest tuners you'll ever see. And Gibson speed knobs, don't forget the Gibson speed knobs. From a Les Paul guitar presumably. Bargin.

Born in the 50s but no genuine memory of them, my earliest datable memory would be summer of 1960. So, 56 years of memories then. And the answer is ... now. The best time to be alive is definitely now. Anyone who thinks otherwise is probably not paying attention.

[quote name='Dom in Somerset' timestamp='1463464796' post='3051463'] It now has a 1/4" jack, what did it have before? [/quote] The early 60s Vox basses had a 3-pin 13A bakelite plug ...

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1463412577' post='3051131'] Harvest make a shorter scale bag that takes my Ritters perfectly and it just fits inside a BMW 3 Coupe boot. [/quote] 5-series is the way to go ...

I thought this topic was going to be about helping people find the cowboy boots of their dreams ...

[quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1463153290' post='3049131'] Cake, there must be cake [/quote] Savoury cake?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36284812 I have nothing to say that could be half as funny as the fact that this is real.

Lobster Thermidor aux Crevettes avec Aubergines in a white wine sauce, garnished with shallots. Failing that ... Spam!

[quote name='alexclaber' timestamp='1463136182' post='3048857'] ... AND that the OEM will not sell these products to anyone else or disclose data about them. [/quote] Oh go on Alex ... you can trust us ... we won't tell anybody ...

[quote name='GisserD' timestamp='1463066618' post='3048275'] so why do pedal manufacturers put so much effort into developing stereo pedals? [/quote] Not sure there's actually much effort involved. Electronics are so cheap and so versatile these days that it can't add much to the production cost to replace a Mono output with an L/R Pair (the Left only being used by 99% of users for 99% of the time) and one extra chip to handle it. As to running a stereo signal through your bass amp, well you just wouldn't. But you [i][b]might [/b][/i]take a feed to an unused L/R channel on the band's PA and feed some effect through there too. Most FX pedals have at least one knob, switch or function than no one ever uses/

[quote name='grandad' timestamp='1462955994' post='3047165'] For the more mature audience there quite a were a few - 'Do You Wanna Dance', '[color=#ff0000][b]Everywhere and Nowhere Baby[/b][/color]', '500 miles', 'My Girl' and most 12 bar Rock and Roll. But every 3rd number would need to be a slow one so they could get their breath back. [/quote] I'm going to take a wild guess that you mean [i][b]Hi Ho Silver Lining[/b][/i] ...

That'll be Zak Goldsmith trying to recover some of his campaign costs then ...

Does knowing a famous musician before he got famous count? Cos that's all I got.

Bwahahahahahaha!!! I absolutely love the OTB500 but I've never owned an amp that was MORE of a one-trick pony. It does what it does, and pretty much nothing else. If it does what you want then that's great, but don't expect versatility. For context, I used mine almost exclusively in the context of playing classic 70s covers (Stones, Dr. Feelgood, T. Rex, etc.) and it's just bang on the money for that. In fairness, I also remember one occasion (just one) where it sounded truly majestic with a double bass.

If there's really no jam night anywhere in Cambridge, at all, why not start one?

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1462238245' post='3041409'] ... for over 50 years. Twice the age of most of you. [/quote] Hah! In your dreams mate. The average Basschatter is WAY older than 25, and I'm ... ahem ... rather older than the average Basschatter.

I genuinely thought this thread was going to be about volume issues! Living in London, I'm not really in a good place to offer advice about Cheltenham. But I do agree that serious frustration warrants a serious response, and there's none more serious than starting the band you want to be in. I've done it. Once. Maybe one day I'll try again. If nothing else, I guarantee you a fund of funny but true stories to regale your musician friends with for the rest of your life. Advertising for members for a new band is a bit like starring in your own sitcom. Don't ask me how I know.

Didn't you just sell one?