Happy Jack

I've never had any trouble at all when playing through a Fender Rumble. Mind you, I've never actually played through one. But this is the Internet so why should that stop me from (i) having an opinion on the subject, and (ii) posting extensively as if I'm an expert?

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1443389444' post='2874377'] Have you ever heard the version from the Concert For Bangladesh? - Klaus Voormann does a great job with it although he simplified the A minor twiddley bit. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei6VyjlgxZU[/media] [/quote] [quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1443506229' post='2875254'] The bloke who wrote it was, and he doesn't like it either :-) [/quote] So there's a source that tells us that Harrison thought Macca's line "too busy" (though I'm pretty sure that comment has nowhere been directly attributable to Harrison), yet when he gets the chance to re-do the song and with an old and trusted friend on bass, what does he ask Klaus to do? Replicate Macca's bassline. This is just another of the myths to emerge from the acrimonious Beatles break-up. Things may (or may not) have been said that were over the top and not really meant. Incidentally, don't all the musicians playing with George in that clip look deliriously happy to be there.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Metal-Axxe-Bass-Guitar-Warped-shape-Active-Electronics-/181850799774?hash=item2a5726fe9e

Valve amps cab be very sensitive to the mains power supply. I've played in pubs where the mains was so poor (and, frankly, so dangerous) that my rig was receiving well short of 240V. IME this doesn't just affect power tubes (as you might expect) but also the pre-amp valves in my OTB500. The cut-off point seems to be as the power supply trends down towards 180V. It isn't a gradual or intermittent thing either; the amp works fine until it just stops without warning. If you use rack gear on stage then you could do a lot worse than to buy http://www.thomann.de/gb/samson_powerbrite_pb10_pro.htm or similar. I have a Phonic PPC9000E in my rack (sadly discontinued) and it was the LED display that first alerted me to the real problem. None of which will prevent what happened to me at the Ealing Beer Festival last year. The organisers had floodlighting on pylons, only to be switched on at the end of the evening to encourage punters to go home, and to make the clear-up easier for the staff. All the power for the event was being run off a serious diesel generator. We were halfway through Spirit In The Sky at the end of the set when they fired up the floodlights. The sudden current draw produced a huge dip in supply elsewhere in Walpole Park and my Matamp just stopped dead.

I'm surprised at how little actual amplification the BigHead offers. The sound is excellent, but it seems to have very little headroom.

The Real Book.

Not bad at all, especially given that he'd been dead for two years by then ...

I asked him to do my Miller fretless, and he said he didn't have the right Allen keys with him!

My cab preferences are pretty well documented on this site. I believe that I am normally referred to as "a Barefaced [i]fanboi[/i]". A tad simplistic, I feel, but if the cap fits ... So I was at the Herts Bassbash a few months back where, along with loads of other stuff going on, Bottle (Ian) had brought along a bass rig comprising two cheap PA cabs from Maplins (ProSound) and a self-built, half-finished valve head. Ha ha ha, how we laughed. But it actually sounded surprisingly good. I only played through it for a few minutes, and there was that awful slapping nonsense going on elsewhere in the room, but it sounded pretty good to me. Fast forward to The Great Cab Shoot-Out at the bash yesterday, and we're listening to a succession of cabs by Bergantino, Schroder, Barefaced, Phil Jones, etc. Then Ian says "go on, put mine up too". Was it as good as a Berg or a Schroder? Don't be silly. Was it massively cheaper than a Berg or a Schroder? Just ask that bear heading into the woods with a roll of toilet paper. Was it blown out of the water, completely out of its league, easily the worst-sounding cab. Erm ... no. So how does this work? How does a sub-£100 entry-level PA cab targeted at schoolboys who wannabe DJs manage to compete with expensive, high-quality bass cabs built by [i]pukka [/i]experts?

Your Verithin is a hollowbody designed (originally) to be played at volumes we would now consider very low. That 185 should never be prone to feedback unless there's a specific issue.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1443302492' post='2873784'] And without a doubt it won`t be one of my own, as my gear always polls last in the these shoot-out events [/quote] Well if you insist on putting your rig up against a £60 ProSound cab from Maplins, you have only yourself to blame.

"Reagan and Thatcher - Hands Off El Salvador", and suddenly I am young again.

[quote name='TomKent' timestamp='1443223248' post='2873297'] Going to have to give this a miss I'm afraid people! Playing the O2 in the evening and load in is 2pm (or earlier) so I'd only be able to stay for an hour or so from 10am. Next time! [/quote] There's a pub called The O2?

Mmmmmmmmmm. I haven't actually got a photo of my three together. May have to do something about that.

Nothing we didn't already know, but interesting to see this bumped up the BBC news agenda. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34343040/why-the-uks-small-music-venues-are-under-threat

Macca's passed? Or do you mean the Bay City Rollers?

[quote name='timmo' timestamp='1443127702' post='2872556'] Is it true that he had his original Hofner stolen? [/quote] Yup. Mind you, that was 50 years ago. And no, it has never actually resurfaced or been sold, despite some excellent attempts at fraud. And while we're at it, he never broke a Hofner on stage in Yugoslavia and threw it into the crowd in frustration, the broken Hofner was never rescued and restored, and if you are offered that bass do be sure to check that it comes with the accompanying Brooklyn Bridge plus complete Crown Jewels. Beatletastic stuff attracts more than its fair share of conmen, conspiracy theorists, and delusional fantasists. You had to be there, I suppose.

That will need to sound pretty good to make up for the stylistic disaster that is the fascia.

In that case, his nail varnish should Shirley be black, neh?

It has to be worth the 49p if only for the ivory.

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1443099498' post='2872195'] ... but many bandmembers don't even have a prior job to go back to, especially for a guy nearing 70 years old. [/quote] Tony Iommi could go back to working sheet metal, so long as this time he actually had the health + safety training ...

[quote name='pete.young' timestamp='1443084287' post='2871983'] [i]Described as Bruce’s favourite bass ...[/i] [/quote] By the auction house, I imagine. Is there any actual evidence that Jack Bruce himself said this? The Thumb was not the bass he used with Cream (obviously). It wasn't his first-choice instrument at the Albert Hall reunion gigs. It's not the model for his signature bass from Warwick. And Macca did NOT auction his 1963 500/1. He still has it, still gigs it.

You do realise that this is a price increase of Infinity? (49p / 0) They're 'avin' a giraffe if you ask me ...