Happy Jack

God didn't make the Billy Green Apples, And it don't rain in Indianapolis in the summer time ...

Do you fancy a shave?

I doubt he'd get out of bed for as little as $64,000.

http://color-wind.en.alibaba.com/product/339888875-200637242/Dinosaur_Fuzzy_Gems_Sticker.html

Presumably composing texts doesn't count, no matter how well-crafted?

Just be grateful he wasn't talking about ordering a Rickenbacker ...

You've probably mis-read Billy Sheehan ...

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[quote name='leftybassman392' timestamp='1438858248' post='2838039'] Not yet he wasn't! [/quote] Wikipaedia begs to differ ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead

I thought George Martin played the drums on that album? And keyboards, of course. And brass and woodwind. And probably some guitar. In fact, I don't think The Beatles were much involved, especially seeing as Paul was dead anyway.

... walking on sunshine is worth $10m. Given the weather so far this summer, they're probably right.

You're never too old to discover "clickbait" ...

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1438809981' post='2837684'] I recall seeing a page about a bowed electric "upright" ... [/quote] Maybe the neck was bowed because of the metal strings.

I take it you checked the roof and gutter first?

Lucky? Not so sure about that - I reckon that bass is horribly overpriced. It looks like the love-child of my old Status Vintage PJ and my old Alleva-Coppolo KP5, both utterly gorgeous basses, but together worth only slightly more than this bass is listed at. I have no beef at all against Cotswold Guitars (for all I know, they're Members here on BC) but that price is pretty bloody huge!

I'm a Law One, Ooh baby, I'm a Law One.

The pick of the (current) bunch has got to be [size=5][b]Apostrophe Police[/b][/size]

I'm still looking for a Precision with a special tool for removing Boy Scouts from horses' hooves.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Celebrity-Owned-2008-Fender-Masterbuilt-Custom-Shop-Jazz-Precision-Bass-May-p-x-/181793699500?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2a53bfb6ac I have absolutely no justification for emptying my piggy banks for this, so I won't, but this really does look like a very cool bass indeed. I'd love it if another Basschatter bought it ...

Despatch ... POB ... Going to Acacia Avenue ... Out.

I like wireless, but I already bring a shedload of gear to gigs. IME the more gear you have, the more scope there is for things to go wrong, and I have found wireless particularly flaky in the past. I'm now trying the Smoothound unit, largely because it's tiny and it's very, very simple. I have two gigs in the next two weeks and I'm hopeful that this will deliver for me. Something I haven't worked out is using wireless with a pedal board. I only use a tuner, which of course I won't need to stomp on midway through a song. How do you benefit from wireless if you're tap-dancing on fuzz and octaver pedals?

Saw The Metermen (three quarters of the original band) in Philadelphia two years ago, and they've still got it, oh yes. On the other hand, saw the George Porter band play at The Borderline in London last year and left before the end of the gig. Go figure ...

http://youtu.be/S0BEO59LvOA

Not a uke player myself, but I'm guessing that ukes don't favour 7-chords the way that electric guitars do. In blues & blues-rock, they're constantly in use in most 12-bar formats, so playing that 7th underneath them on bass usually sounds fine.

[quote name='SmoothHoundChris' timestamp='1438284976' post='2833310'] You mean like this? [url="https://www.dropbox.com/s/78aihaxj5lhkxlj/DSC_0009_web.JPG?dl=0"]Standing on the receiver![/url] The receiver is tougher than it looks/feels. It's made from extruded aluminium so is very lightweight but that photo really is of me standing on it. The antennas are pretty tough too but I can't guarantee that they're stamp proof ... not that you need to stamp on them ... [/quote] LOL - point taken.