Happy Jack

Last time I wore the fez was with my '96 England shirt when we played The King's Head (Acton) just before England -v- Sweden. When we finished playing, the pub discovered that their Sky contract had been allowed to expire (oops!). No worries, the match was obviously available on terrestrial too. Then the pub discovered that their aerial had been disconnected (oops!). Meanwhile, the barman is watching the match on his iPad so one of the punters produces an iPad and does the same. By now punters are drifting away ... they want to see the match. So the barman puts a chair on stage (this is before the refurb when they took away the stage, obviously) and balances his iPad on it for the whole pub to watch. Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear. Oh dearie, dearie me. That was a Group Match in the June 2012 Euros. We went out on penalties against Italy in the Quarter Finals. I'm sorry, what was your question again?

I had a fretted Lightwave Sabre 5-string some years back: [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20SOLD/Lightwave%20Sabre%20VL%20SOLD/CIMG0093.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20SOLD/Lightwave%20Sabre%20VL%20SOLD/CIMG0093.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Long enough ago that I barely recognise my old back garden! Very surprised by Hellzero's comments. Mine was absolutely lush, a very high-quality instrument with no problems or issues at all, and of course very lightweight. I didn't keep it because the sound was so transparent that there was nowhere to hide ... the slightest error in your technique or glitch in your bassline was right there for everyone to hear. I don't do much recording (if any) but I've always thought that - in the right hands - this would be a monster of a recording bass.

Let me distract you, to stop you thinking about it all afternoon: http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/library/Basses%20CURRENT/Mike%20Lull%20T5%202014%20CURRENT

Give me your email address and I'll reinforce that suggestion ...

http://www.thomann.de/gb/duke_two_tone_hyg_double_bass_3_4.htm You're gonna see that comin' ...

Bloody hell! What I read was: [color=#002CFD]One socket is wired for stereo output from d-g strings but the other one appears to have been rewired for mono output for all four strings.[/color] What you've written puts a rather different slant on the whole thing! So what's the thinking with splitting the stereo by way of E-A and D-G? Would you treat each pair of strings to different FX pedals? Would you run them through different amps? Not sure I understand the benefit.

It was me who asked him about the output sockets. That's what put me off. Had it been in original stereo format I might well have gone for it.

When in doubt, blame the drummer.

Apparently they have "selectable impedenance" so anything is possible.

In that case, I'll have my thermos flask back, thank you very much.

[quote name='Sonic_Groove' timestamp='1434541948' post='2800572'] Perfect Day? - Day out, Feed animals, Movie, Home? [/quote] Wake up, take heroin, meet junkie girlfriend, take more heroin, watch the day pass by, take more heroin. Allegedly.

Well Hell ... if even Cliff could perform "Devil Woman" ...

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1434537047' post='2800486'] I have had enough of this. I am leaving the country. I may go to Italy and [b]Live In Pompeii!![/b] [/quote] That's magic! Wizard! Oh no ... wait ...

[Irony] If there's one consistent theme that runs through the pop/rock of the last 50 years, it's that songs written & performed by young whippersnappers like those awful Rolling Stones (why can't they get their hair cut?) seem to be designed to shock and offend. It's almost as if they're trying to be provocative. Why can't musicians just stick to good, wholesome stuff like The Golliwog's Cakewalk? [/Irony] I suppose I could make a list of songs that are either gratuitously, in-your-face offensive, or which cover very dark territory indeed but do so in unexpected ways (e.g. Perfect Day, by Lou Reed). Frankly I haven't got the seventeen hours it would take to make that list anything like comprehensive. The world now seems to be full of dedicated offendees, those who are determined to be offended by something, no matter what it is, no matter how out of context they have to take it. And do you know what? It always turns out that SOMETHING SHOULD BE DONE! Why would anyone choose to live their life as part of a brain-dead tabloid headline? Have these people really got nothing better to think about?

OK, so the scarred old slaver is a racist misogynist, but what about the houseboy? And don't get me started on the lady of the house. The idea that the song is about (female) slaves being raped on the slaveship doesn't actually fit the lyrics. At all. The slaver is in a brothel in New Orleans. The houseboy is the guy who gets the drinks etc. but also gets to sleep with the girls. The lady of the house is more commonly called the Madam. Does that make it a nice lyric? No, but at least it's historically accurate, it paints a striking picture with a handful of words, and it's still a great rock song more than 40 years later.

Perhaps your school needs more thought?

Had a guitarist turn up at a gig without his own amp - he'd left it at home, 50 miles away. Luckily enough, I had one of these with me: http://www.studiomaster.com/product-view/pax12px1212/89/ In truth, he sounded better through it than he did through his own valve amp. Better still, because it's a wedge and pointed at his ears, he could hear himself properly without having to pin the punters to the back wall of the pub with excessive volume. Being a guitarist, of course, he wouldn't be told.

You'll need to make sure your instruments are relics.

This came up during the presentation from D'Addario at the Herts Bass Bash yesterday. The rep (Andrew) made most of the points covered in the dozen posts above, but mentioned IIRC that D'Addario believe that through-body stringing makes broken strings more likely. It links back to the break angle, of course.

Posts not into double figures yet, and this is already one of the better topics this year ...