Happy Jack

Sod the amp ... how about identifying those pants!

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1430998864' post='2766694'] Dave Pomery who used to have the column in Bass Player mag? In Dartford?! I might pop along! [/quote] That's the fella. We shared a flat for a summer in the 70s. Really nice guy, great company. If you go, be sure to mention me and Silvia (Bluejay).

This thread will run and run ...

Yup, the whole thing is a bit weird. An old friend of mine (Dave Pomeroy) is a pro bass player out of Nashville, pretty well thought-of, and he routinely tours with a number of fairly big-name headliners, especially in the world of rockabilly and country. He's over today with Sleepy LaBeef, who's not well-known in this country but should be, to headline at a big Rockabilly festival on Saturday night. Before flying back to Nashville on Monday they then go on to play Sunday night at ...erm ... Dartford Social Club. Go figure.

What's it like? As a venue, I mean. Big and famous, long queues outside, clean toilets? Or an old dive teetering on the brink of extinction?

[quote name='AntLockyer' timestamp='1430853301' post='2765298'] ... I'm still wondering if there is something else that I'd get by just sticking the pedal in the chain. [/quote] Yup. Loads of stuff. One more thing to go wrong. One more thing to remember to take there and then bring home again. One more thing to worry about whenever you think you "don't sound right". In fact, one more thing to rule them all and in the darkness bind them. I constantly fall victim to all of these. Prune prune prune back down to bass --> amp --> cab and then gradually add more and more paraphernalia until the next meltdown. Learn from my mistakes. It's more than I ever seem to manage. If you don't need it, don't use it.

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Yes, but this is big enough that you can sleep in it, so you don't need the bed ...

And here's the rest of the band ... [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Just%20Stuff/Music%20and%20Musicians/KissGoneWrong.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Just%20Stuff/Music%20and%20Musicians/KissGoneWrong.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/260333-lightweight-34-double-bass-hard-case/

Slightly lighter than granite, I believe ...

So, this 'dancing about architecture' thing ...

Any pedal solution for you would need to have two inputs, with separate gain/level/input controls. That way the active/passive choice does no damage to achieving ... erm ... whatever it is you're trying to achieve.

[quote name='TheRev' timestamp='1430762458' post='2764381'] If you had fun playing the gig then you're doing everything right. [/quote] If you could barely move your left shoulder the next morning, and the fingertips on your right hand were painful to touch, then it's official ... you had fun.

So where do the fairies come in exactly?

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1430819632' post='2764770'] That hole is fairy big in terms of time on a millisecond scale. [/quote] I'm going to treasure that sentence.

My interest in 9-string basses is ... erm ... fleeting. ps: Ambient, any chance you could add some more stuff to your sig? It doesn't entirely fill the screen yet.

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1430680479' post='2763676'] Ok man, I appreciate your links. This one is dead obvious. When the bass player plays behind the beat, it sounds dreadful and out of time and I'm sure jazz is the only medium where you could get away with this. [/quote] Oh dear. This clip just keeps doing damage. The bass player in this clip is playing consistently and accurately ON THE BEAT. This is a clip designed to show our drumming brethren how to play ahead of or behind the beat, while the rest of the band deliberately plays with all the feel and swing of a cheap metronome.

Experiment! Try it on its back, on its front, doggy style, whatever ...

That looks & sounds great ... if that's your first-ever gig on DB then you're probably going to have a great time going forward. I particularly wanted my bandmates ([i]including MacDaddy of this parish, Paul the Drums, and Bluejay on cameras and social media[/i]) to check out what your singing drummer uses for percussion so I sent them the link to your video on YouTube. It came up with [color=#333333][font=arial, sans-serif][size=3][b]This video is unlisted. Be considerate and think twice before sharing.[/b][/size][/font][/color] Are you cool with that?