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Happy Jack

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  1. Whether or not something is hefty is, fundamentally, a matter of hubricity.
  2. [quote name='bonzodog' timestamp='1465720634' post='3070382'] Now by the time I've loaded the Pa back in the house ... [/quote] Your Dad comes to your gigs?
  3. So ... after a gig at the Dog & Duck, what do you do? I've done the hamburger thing. I've done the kebab thing. Now? Well my favourite is Honey & Banana cake (carbs, sugar high, moist) but that's hard to get these days. So mainly it's Sainsbury's Ginger Cake.
  4. Unfortunately he's spelt it wrong. He's written PCGC where it should be PMSL.
  5. [url="http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/Westone%20The%20Rail%201985%20CURRENT/Westone%20The%20Rail%20-%20take%202_body%205_zpsnoi7vhpo.jpg.html"][/url] That's not the original pickup BTW. I had a Dark Star re-issue retro-fitted. Edit: This is a 32" scale bass.
  6. Loved the show, and great work by The Caffreys (well done Michael), but it left me wanting to know more about the Acid-Bhangra-Rock outfit from Peterborough, Kissmet. At their initial piece of the show when they were rehearsing I thought they sounded great, really interesting, original, and a great beat. At the Sheffield battle of the bands their version of Sunshine Of Your Love was strictly UK pub rock ... well-played and they're clearly a good band, but all the bhangra was gone and with it the originality. What was that all about?
  7. I'm glad you didn't use the Axe to do it ...
  8. Not mention to [i][b]Dust Til Dawn[/b][/i], a house cleaning firm near Ipswich. In fact, Til Dawn is looking increasingly like a name you might want to change to something more Google-friendly. A quick search reveals that even that awful band I auditioned for come up WAY before you guys. But at least they seem to have ditched their appalling drummer. Incidentally, who knew about this film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_%27til_Dawn Presumably this was Matthew Perry's debut?
  9. [quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1465630622' post='3069711'] [b]Hubris + Hutzpah[/b] .... if anybody is looking for a new band name (1% royalty non-negotiable) [/quote] But what if you were to spell Chutzpah correctly?
  10. Looks pretty good. For metal.
  11. Hubris is always followed by Nemesis. Does that help at all?
  12. Tried listening to that cut of Get Down On It ... I have no clue which of the sounds was supposed to be a 'tenor bass', something of an oxymoron I'd have thought.
  13. http://youtu.be/WSN_DrkF5tM
  14. Come on Barbie, let's go party ...
  15. Is that being stated as a fact or merely an opinion?
  16. Or check your band's bank balance, then change the name to Til Dawn Broke.
  17. So essentially they heard his song [i][b]Photograph[/b][/i], and they thought, "[i]Wow! That's [b]Amazing[/b]![/i]"
  18. [quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1465467240' post='3068453'] Both the videos were recorded with your Zoom Q2. [/quote] Oops.
  19. [quote name='zbd1960' timestamp='1465416499' post='3068098'] Very good sound on that - I pushed the output from the PC through an external DAC connected to hi-fi, very good bass. [/quote] Silvie does all the band videos for the bands I play in. That camera she uses has an excellent microphone, and always does justice to the sound of the band.
  20. [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1465465405' post='3068421'] Amazing how he came up with the Strat, just like that, fully-formed and apparently out of nowhere! [/quote] ??? I always thought the Strat was the bastard love-child of a Precision and a Telecaster ...
  21. [quote name='EliasMooseblaster' timestamp='1465463202' post='3068375'] Just to say, if people would like to continue this discussion, I'm really enjoying all these old clips of The Who... [/quote] Oi! I told you - check out Felix Pappalardi!
  22. I recently auditioned for a band called Dusk Til Dawn. They were dreadful.
  23. Nothing you can "do" about it unless you have actually copyrighted or trademarked the name, but TBH it's not a problem that's going to last long ... if it's causing you grief as the well-established band can you imagine how hard it's going to get for your teenaged girly competitors? If they're trying to get gigs then they'll soon discover that they're invisible on Google because searches will find you instead; if they're not trying to get gigs then they'll implode soon enough anyway. Chill. Before we named our band, we held off using Junkyard Dogs because there were two other bands using that name or something very similar. One (Hobo Jones & The Junkyard Dogs) is based in the West Country and the 'Hobo Jones' bit meant that there was little risk of overlap. The other (Junkyard Dog) was a well-established band based IIRC in Leeds and with a big internet presence, which mean that Google was always going to find them first. Then Junkyard Dog announced that they were breaking up and quitting, so we grabbed the name and started gigging in London. They re-formed a year or so later, but by then we were an established band in London and there's been precisely one occurrence of confusion between the bands in the last five years.
  24. These are excellent pedals: http://www.fishman.com/products/series/fx/fissionbasspowerchordfxpedal.php Very flexible and with a good range of usable sound, built as solidly as Radial kit, and you can separate out the wet signal and run the 'guitar' sound to a different amp or combo if you want, introducing different FX along the way. In a 3-piece band I routinely ditch the on-board Overdrive effect (a bit wasp-in-a-jamjar) and feed the wet signal through a classic Boss OD-1 pedal instead. When the guitarist is soloing that keeps the sound nice & full. It runs very happily off batteries, so doesn't have to live wired-in to a powered pedal board.
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