Happy Jack

[quote name='Count Bassy' timestamp='1433852505' post='2794528'] Is it just me who read the title as "Cozy Powell Plague"? [/quote] I thought this was going to be about his dodgy teeth ...

[color=#0000ff][i][b][font=Arial, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2]I[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][size=4]t's amazing how many low end subtleties it brings out and really makes the mids and highs sing out while suppressing the unwanted stuff[/size][/font][/size][/font][/b][/i][/color] [color=#0000ff][i][b][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][size=4]It's super clean.[/size][/font][/b][/i][/color] [color=#0000ff][i][b][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][size=4]It was clear, punchy and solid.[/size][/font][/b][/i][/color] [color=#0000ff][i][b][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][size=4]Incredible depth, clarity, gain and versatility, giving a rich tone of my bass.[/size][/font][/b][/i][/color] [color=#0000ff][i][b][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][size=4]The tone of your bass becomes exponentially warmer through the Avalon.[/size][/font][/b][/i][/color] [color=#0000ff][i][b][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][size=4]The Avalon makes it sound a lot warmer and fatter.[/size][/font][/b][/i][/color] [color=#0000ff][i][b][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][size=4]It has a nice, rich sound, as one might expect.[/size][/font][/b][/i][/color] Those are all quoted from reviews on Musicians Friend for the Avalon U5. Undeniably a lush piece of kit, but there's "clean" and there's "clean". In this case, "[i]a really clean, pure signal[/i]" apparently means clear, punchy, solid, versatile, rich, warm and fat. Disappointingly, it apparently does not mean organic, dominant, integral or moist. But it is at least exponential. I do like the idea of "[i]suppressing the unwanted stuff[/i]", though. I could do with more of that in my life. Ultimately, it's all about your ears. Mine are pretty sh*t so I don't worry too much about it.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Shop-Soiled-Guitar-And-Bass-Bridges-Seconds-Free-Postage/141400136786?_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140328180637%26meid%3D867cd2cdef274daba6dcbfba4a8cba18%26pid%3D100009%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D10%26sd%3D111686840715

Like it - looks like someone allowed a Shuker Uberhorn to spend too much undisturbed time with a Dingwall ...

What sort of construction is this block of flats? If you're talking about a modern-ish place built of reinforced concrete, then the first thing to do is to establish whether or not there is actually a problem ... can your DB be heard through the walls/floor/ceiling? In similar vein, who are your neighbours going to be? If you'll be surrounded by rap fans with oversized stereo systems, it may be you doing the complaining ...

I'm not really one for jazz but I LOVE your band name.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1433749024' post='2793485'] Going by selling rate here of some of the 1960's basses, this [s]is[/s] was worth about £1200 - 1400. He's trying to add some mojo and get a vast increase in the profit.... imho that is, of course. [/quote] Not sure about those prices! If this was in good nick and all-original, it would sell for around £5000. Here's mine: [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/Fender%20Precision%201966%20CURRENT/DSCF4287.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20CURRENT/Fender%20Precision%201966%20CURRENT/DSCF4287.jpg[/IMG][/URL] If this was a refin but otherwise all-original, it would still go for at least £3000.

[quote name='Count Bassy' timestamp='1433694903' post='2793154'] Am I missing something here? I can see no mention of this having been deliberately reliced. It could just be a bass that's had 50 years of use and wear. Remember that when bought is '65 it was just a standard new Fender P bass, nothing special about it, and definitely not vintage. [/quote] Deliberately relic'd? Dunno. But I've owned a lot of 50-year-old basses (I have seven just now) and I've never seen a wear pattern remotely like that!

[quote name='Chiliwailer' timestamp='1433709458' post='2793328'] Hard to take that seriously when you stock Sadowsky and your competitor stocks Lull....... [/quote] Not called for, mate, and pretty unfair.

I've forwarded that link to Andy Gibson ... he'll wet himself laughing at that one.

Does the love affair go back to the really early days? [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Just%20Stuff/Sundry/large-616432-dirtydino_zpsb10cfa6d.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Just%20Stuff/Sundry/large-616432-dirtydino_zpsb10cfa6d.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

+100z.

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1433595167' post='2792399'] I think its his R*********er on that track. IIRC they filmed the recording session and used it as a promo for Lady Madonna. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya87u5SfK2w[/media] [/quote] That's never the Rick. Sounds exactly like a badly set - up Hofner. So there's a video loosely associated with that track, maybe, perhaps, I still wouldn't read too much into it. Especially since the video shows all The Beatles doing different things at different times, including both John and Paul playing piano.

[quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1433580807' post='2792208'] ....and here we all are decades later, admiring what he did. Just goes to show that it's not so much the tone.. but what you do with it... that matters. [/quote] Yup, my point. [quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1433584087' post='2792253'] ... and as you may be able to confirm Jack, at that time, a new Hofner was about £40 and did need a set-up. [/quote] Haven't got a price for a 500/1, but the Senator cost 31 gns (= guineas for our younger readers = £1.05) and the President cost 48 gns so the Violin would probably have been somewhere between those two: [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Other%20music%20related/Selmer%20Catalogue%201963/scan0007-1.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Other%20music%20related/Selmer%20Catalogue%201963/scan0007-1.jpg[/IMG][/URL] But I've owned a number of 500/1s, ancient and modern, and I've never had one that sounded as Godawful as on this track.

Didn't you get a postcard? I thought we'd all had one ...

We all spend so much time, money and energy in trying to achieve "great bass tone" and one of the all-time greats gets a sound like a £40 starter bass from Woolworths in desperate need of a set - up.

Up next, someone playing bottleneck violin ...

Do you schwiiiiiiiiiiiiiing, then?

I think you've probably summed up the difference between Basschat and Facebook quite nicely with this story.

[quote name='chaypup' timestamp='1433188141' post='2788762'] Our Trombonist is in Northampton...... £45 eh? [/quote] If you're in Cardiff, and your trombonist is in Northampton, rehearsals must be challenging!

And now I know there's a place called Earl Shilton. That is SO much cooler than Acton. Just saying ...

I have no idea how to play that file. When I click on it, my tablet asks if I have an App I want to use ...

You could always trade in one of these bad boys for one of the good boys, I suppose.

Or, indeed, of someone else's performances.

... were very common back in the day. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1965-Fender-Precision-Bass-Ultra-Rare-Lake-Placid-Blue-Hard-Case-Poss-p-x-Jazz-/181734159313?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2a503333d1