Happy Jack

All you need to do is to take your original song title or band name and convert it into business guff. To get you started, here's the Financial Times (no, really, have a look): https://ig.ft.com/sites/guffipedia/ So if you want to start a band called The Cars, and you can see that there might be some issues, you could instead call yourselves [i]The Sustainable Mobility Solutions[/i] (Toyota, 2010). For song titles you could just go for obscurity and make them mean what you want to mean: [i]Move The Planet A Little Closer To The Future [/i](Cisco Systems, 2012) [i]Robustify Learnability [/i](US Federal Reserve, 2006) [i]Go-Forward Scenario [/i](AOL, 2014) But it's worth bearing in mind that a newly-written song can also be viewed as a [i]Multi-Dimensional Communication Scaffold [/i](Circus Street, 2014).

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In all fairness, he has a great user name ...

So what you're saying is, his amp now needs a front brake?

Someone had better tell Gollihur then ...

And now, just to bring my last two posts together in a sort of Unified Theory Of General Country: http://www.bassplayer.com/gear/1164/retro-rama-1968-silvertone-1443/26638

[quote name='deejayen' timestamp='1450353904' post='2931918'] I play guitar, but struggle when playing bass. I'm going to mess around recording a short tune which is in a Johnny Cash vein. The electric guitar will be doing some sort of alternate bass , and I wonder how the bass guitar will gel/clash with that. [/quote] Not at all sure what you mean by that. The bass+guitar thing in country music was traditionally the tic-tac system where the (muffled, muddy, badly-recorded) double bass was doubled two octaves higher on a Telecaster. Or something ...

[quote name='Lo-E' timestamp='1448226142' post='2913853'] I belive it was Dave Pomeroy who, when asked about playing country lines, said "Find the simplest line you can possibly play, then play half of that!" [/quote] He's a very good guy is Dave - strangely enough we shared a flat in the 70s.

Radial will have at least three products which will do what you need, be bulletproof in construction and use, and applicable in a multitude of situations. I don't have shares in the company ... I just rate them very highly!

If I didn't already own this bass's twin, I'd have sprained my finger hitting the Buy It Now button. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bass-Guitar-Bass-Collection-SB320-Electric-Green-/131677944656?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276 I'm reasonably well informed on these basses and IMHO this is probably the best value bass on eBay today.

Strange looking "wooden box" if you ask me ...

[quote name='Norris' timestamp='1450294277' post='2931500'] ... or in a wardrobe is lot better place. [/quote] Nah mate, use a hard case. Far easier to move around.

Norvegicus, were they?

Last I heard, Aerosmith kept all their toys up there.

I've stored basses all over the place. What they HATE is rapid change, in temperature or in humidity or in both. If your loft is well insulated (i.e. externally against the roof, not internally against the rest of the house) so things only change slowly, then you should have no trouble, especially if all the basses are in hard cases. If your loft changes with the weather, then I wouldn't even consider storing instruments there.

Presumably they need the crates for the Bierkeller?

Surely that should be [i]genre bendre[/i]?

[quote name='lowregisterhead' timestamp='1450164502' post='2930080'] Never mind grammer. [/quote] Being of a generous disposition, I'm going to imagine a virtual smiley face after that speeling misteak.

By God! That set of four rigs would just look SOOOOOO good at the Dog & Duck ...

Where's Mr. Weasley when you need him?

Either that, or surreal.

I've just had a heads-up from Clarky that Innovation have [i][b]ceased production[/b][/i] of these strings. Once existing stocks have gone, as things stand at present that's it ... there won't be any more. These are my favourite strings and I have them on both my DB and my KK Baby Bass. At £105 a set they ain't cheap, but even so I have immediately ordered another set against the day when I need them and they can no longer be found.

Two years after this thread faded away gracefully, I found myself playing DB with a singer-songwriter whose previous band had been good-quality session guys. He'd fallen enough on relative hard times that he preferred to use me on bass since I was free. At the audition and the early rehearsals he loved what I was playing, but my intonation was all over the shop. No matter how carefully I played, I was routinely 'off' the note. It was pretty sickening. Played our first gig (The Troubadour in Earl's Court) and went down fine with the crowd, but I was still unhappy with my intonation. Next rehearsal, different day but same old sh*t. I stopped the rehearsal and said we weren't going to play another note until we got the problem sorted out. After 10 minutes of going in circles, the drummer (a very fine pro musician) asked the guitarist what he had his tuner set to. "[i][b]445 of course, it's supposed to be 445, right?[/b][/i]".

Anything more than a Telecaster is just showing off.

Shame that Cort couldn't have found a healthy tree to use ...