Happy Jack

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Have they checked the park?

[quote name='hubrad' timestamp='1439396789' post='2842473'] It was 'found in the park', and the story appears to be legit. [/quote] Looking forward to hearing this story.

I play in one band where MacDaddy (of this parish) plays lead guitar alongside a slide player, so two guitars. I think we sound way better, and I enjoy playing far more, when he uses his (thin and nasal) Flying V than when he borrows my cheap Les Paul at rehearsal. In a 2-guitar band, one guy on a Les Paul can easily end up trampling all over the bass player's sonic turf.

Slow blues in G Rockabilly thing in A Ploddy shoegaze in C Motown ripoff in Bb Sorted.

It's alright Mark, MacDaddy is about to get rid of his ...

http://www.junkyarddogslondon.co.uk/live.html

When I wear a cloth thing around the neck, I usually call it a scarf.

He's shown on keys ...

I've used flats extensively on 5-string basses and, in the main, they are absolutely fine. My favourite flats are LaBella FLs and they work with 34" basses though the B-string can be on the short side. I now play exclusively 35" scale, and the FLs are simply not long enough. I use what I think of as Lakland Jo Osborne flats, but Lakland now call them something else and Gareth (Walbassist) assures me that they are anyway just re-badged GHS strings. With 34" scale on a 5-string there is definitely the risk of some flobbadob going on, so you also need to take into account your own playing style. I like a high-ish action and I tend to dig in pretty hard.

[quote name='smaz' timestamp='1439372740' post='2842184'] Is your drummer Paul Haydon? [/quote] Yup - know him?

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[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1439301464' post='2841675'] I guess it depends on how you define 'alive'.... [/quote] Whichever way sells 8,000,000 LPs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frampton_Comes_Alive!

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1439293739' post='2841574'] Neither are massively groundbreaking ... [/quote] I'm glad to see you haven't lost your facility with extreme [i][b]litotes[/b][/i].

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1439297803' post='2841628'] They'd be better off making their band 'come alive' by playing something other than bloody blues rock. [/quote] Well it worked for Peter Frampton ...

One of the YouTube links that this clip offers is to Kate performing a song called Smoke on electric bass. Not that great a song IMHO but what caught my eye was the bass she plays on that clip ... one of the rarest of vintage Hofner semi-acoustic hollow-bodies. Sadly, the bass is quite inaudible in the mix.

Any instrument with more knobs & switches than strings.

[quote name='bassman7755' timestamp='1439228574' post='2841082'] The beatles were a statistical anomaly, kind of inverse black swan, four people each with the talent to write enduring hit songs by the bucketload in the same band. [/quote] I'll take second to no man in my admiration of The Beatles, but I simply cannot imagine which bucket load of enduring hit songs was written by Ringo.

Well if a bored guitarist would be good enough for the gig, just imagine what a bored bass player could do ...

Ability Goes Missing Tambourine Troubles Japanese Sign Swiss Balls Rose Morris & Shaftesbury

Deliberately ran my transmitter dry at Saturday's gig. I'd had a single bar on the r/h side of the display for a couple of hours, and I wanted to know what happened when the batteries finally died. I could have done this at a rehearsal, of course, but where's the fun in that? Penultimate song of the second set (the Admiral Nelson in Whitton is a 3-setter finishing at midnight) and I was singing the second verse of Jumping Jack Flash when the sound of my bass started farting and cutting out. I kept going for a few bars in case it came back (temporarily) but it simply got worse. I'd already laid out a cable beforehand, ready for when it happened, so I dropped out for two bars - still singing - while unplugging the wireless and going cabled. In truth, it wasn't much of a mystery that needed solving but I've had battery-powered units go dry in several different ways and I always like to know what happens.

I'd just add the other two Barefaced cabs!

Yup.

In all fairness, the top box there is actually the band's PA ...