Happy Jack

Does he do a cheaper version saying "Squier"?

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1462177646' post='3040743'] Ronnie Lane? If that's right then in Small Faces times he plays finger style on at least some of the videos I've seen. [/quote] The Faces were blessed with TWO excellent bass players, Ronnie Lane and Ronnie Wood. Woody first came to fame as the bass player with Jeff Beck in 1967. Edited to mention that yes, I AM aware that the Faces were not exactly the same band as the Small Faces!

Not sure that's a "whopping clanger" ... more like a single bum note. Until the OP pointed it out, can't honestly say I'd ever noticed it, and it's been one of my favourite tracks for ... ahem ... a very long time.

GK MB500 Aguilar TH500

Perhaps he's fibbing about his interests ...

An ex-Pino stack-knob Jazz from 1961: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EX-PINO-PALLADINO-FENDER-JAZZ-BASS-STACK-KNOB-1961-VINTAGE-FENDER-BASS-WHO-/391434650065?hash=item5b2352c1d1:g:D2IAAOSw7KJXEO9d I'll never sell this bass, mainly because I'll never buy it.

Hell no ... Alex, can you please bring Stevie?

http://www.screwfix.com/p/makita-9403-2-4-belt-sander-240v/73893 http://www.screwfix.com/p/dremel-8200-20-10-8v-2-0ah-li-ion-cordless-rotary-multi-tool/6407G?kpid=6407G&cm_mmc=Google-_-Product%20Listing%20Ads-_-Sales%20Tracking-_-sales%20tracking%20url&cm_mmc=Google-_-Shopping%20-%20Tools-_-Shopping%20-%20Tools&gclid=CjwKEAjwxoG5BRCC7ezlzNmR8HUSJAAre36jFk-F9lh0BW9m3tiLGLmTcmzJbUfsEgcbcYwv4B8CdxoCNafw_wcB

Just focus on the look ... loons and glitter, platform boots, no spandex ... the music will take care of itself.

[quote name='4stringslow' timestamp='1461576821' post='3035710'] What shall we moan about next . . . the cost of private jet leasing, mega yacht berthing fees, maintenance costs of private Carribean Islands? [/quote] Those examples are all very expensive because they all cost lots of money. An old mass-produced bass didn't cost lots of money, it cost a relatively trivial amount which most of us here could have afforded when new. It's now worth a lot more for reasons of rarity and - dare I say it - Mojo. How much more? I could make a pretty decent case for £4000, a rather weaker case for £6000, and a really week kite-flyer for £10,000. Above that and you're away with the fairies. IMHO of course. YMMV. L&GWR NATSOPA DILLIGAF?

[quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1461602750' post='3036059'] +1. I'm quite happy to frequent both forums. [/quote] What, country AND western?

Carmine Rojas ... Carmine Appice ... Marco Mendoza ... what's in a name?

Oh I don't know, she might scrub up OK, and it would help if she smiled a bit.

[quote name='warwickhunt' timestamp='1461489236' post='3034977'] Several years down the line we have a BF 4x10 that looks exactly like every other 410 and yet that very design was criticised and lambasted by Alex et al for being the antithesis of all that was bad with bass cabinet design. [/quote] Barefaced [i]fanboi [/i]that I am, I have to say that I saw the 410 and thought ... Hmmmm ...

Wide palette of tones due to the tone knob. Priceless.

[quote name='sunburstjazz1967' timestamp='1461483463' post='3034894'] Yes but they are always told that they are wrong, ignored or declared liers looking at other threads, lol. [/quote] LOL indeed. The history of Barefaced has a lot to do with it ... essentially the company could almost be seen as a spin-off from Basschat, with Alex Claber proving his point / putting his money where his mouth was by actually designing, building and marketing his own cabs. For no reason that I've ever understood, that's left a legacy of ... best choose my words carefully here ... friction between Alex and a number of others with ... erm ... strong views on the subject. That in turn has spilled over into a daft feud between Barefaced fans (including me, though life's too short for feudin' and fightin') and the inevitable Barefaced haters. Just another day on t'Internet.

OK, so what can we see? That's not a Hofner body, nor neck, nor control plate. It might be a Hofner scratchplate, bridge and tailpiece. It certainly looks like a Hofner staple pickup though there were plenty of similar ones around. Neither the scratchplate nor the control plate were designed to go with that body, so what you appear to have is a cheap copy which has the had parts from other basses fitted to it, i.e. it's a Bitsa. It's clearly not recent. That neck plate looks pretty old to me - check the accumulated grime and wear on and around the screws. The engraving on it is far too fancy to be from a mass-produced instrument, and actually looks to me like the work of a jeweller or similar. The expression "Hoffner of London" is so obviously tongue-in-cheek that it must be a deliberate pisstake. Worth remembering that Hoffner is actually quite a common surname. So there we have it. Your bass was built from randomly collected parts by an English jeweller named Hoffner. He had red hair, walked with a limp, and loved parakeets. Elementary, my dear Rick.

https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-player-wanted/any-guitarist-that-would-like-to-play-bass/1165741984

When people talk about the "fretless sound" they usually mean either the Mwah effect or the swoops & slides that a fretless encourages. Neither of these can truly be achieved with a fretted bass (plus pedal or otherwise) though flatwound strings certainly help. I agree with those who have suggested just buying a (cheap) fretless. To help with the lined/unlined issue, try looking out for one of these: [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20SOLD/Ibanez%202366%20FLB%201972%20SOLD/CIMG0127.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20SOLD/Ibanez%202366%20FLB%201972%20SOLD/CIMG0127.jpg[/IMG][/URL] That's an Ibanez 2366 FLB on the right (with a 2369 on the left), from 1972, and no budget-buster. Why that bass? Look at the fret markers. [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20SOLD/Ibanez%202366%20FLB%201972%20SOLD/CIMG0142.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20SOLD/Ibanez%202366%20FLB%201972%20SOLD/CIMG0142.jpg[/IMG][/URL] The audience and your bandmates can't see them - you're a bass playing God! - but when you glance down at the neck you see something familiar and re-assuring.

Definitely planning to be there if at all possible, but can't commit until mid-May. If I'm there, it will be with an Andreas Zeller DB and a KK BabyBass (plus, if I'm feeling mischievous, a Takamine TB20).

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1461233906' post='3032650'] I would take everything you would for a gig (I always have just incase). However, walk in with just your bass, cables and effects. Let them know you've got the rig in the car just incase, there's no negative here it just shows you're prepared and professional. [/quote] That wouldn't work for me at all. I wouldn't be happy leaving outside the entire PA, electronic drum kit, lights & lasers, etc.

On the whole shop thing, obviously there are additional factors in play like shop rent, staff salaries, VAT, etc. So quite large additional factors then. If I were the owner/manager of a shop selling instruments, I'd expect to charge substantially more for a bass than a private vendor would charge, perhaps even as much as 50% more. Not because I'm a greedy fatcat but because I'd probably need to charge that much simply to get the same return as the private vendor. That said, prices such as this example are on another planet. I might contemplate paying this much for a pristine example played for 50 years by one of my favourite bass players, but by any normal standards this bass is a wreck. Take away the provenance (which means the new owner needs to keep all this proof of ownership and history in a safe place, and be prepared to argue the toss with potential buyers in the event of a future sale) and it's worth at most a third of the asking price. IMHO of course.

[quote name='Kevin Dean' timestamp='1461188501' post='3032368'] I haven't seen EV mentioned & I've just ordered spme of there speakers ..I hope I haven't made a huge mistake . [/quote] That's because this topic was finished before the EV company was founded ...

Given that it's a refin, my first question would be, "when was the refin done?". The body is tatty enough that either the refin was done 20 years ago (IMHO that's acceptable wear) or it's one of those Godawful relic'd basses (in which case buy a new Roadworn or similar for way less money).