Happy Jack

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1427375909' post='2729534'] Say what you want.... [/quote] Oh we will, Jon, we will.

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1427386320' post='2729766'] Risky, I'd say. [/quote]

If they can get John Entwistle I'll be there like a flash ...

Sorry mate, but I have to disagree. I'm a [i][b]Machine Head [/b][/i]purist, and the [i][b]Made In Japan[/b][/i] version remains a complete abomination.

God! Some people will do [i][b]anything [/b][/i]to avoid letting me hear them play ...

Interesting. See if this link will work: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22basschat+logo%22&espv=2&biw=1280&bih=610&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=S_sTVdXcMoHToAT7goG4BQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ

Yes, you have to ignore the initial batch of large photos and drop straight down to the avatars ...

[list=1] [*]Go to Google [*]Search for "Basschat logo" [*]Select 'Images' [*]See how many avatars you can put a user name to ... [/list]

He should have been in another room, practising standing up.

It's been a while since I thought of Nottingham as a suburb of Warwick ...

Y'know Gareth, I look at that photo and what I'm thinking is [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Just%20Stuff/Sundry/robby-the-robot-poster-edition_zpsoiyqp5fy.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Just%20Stuff/Sundry/robby-the-robot-poster-edition_zpsoiyqp5fy.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Have you considered going the 'scantily-clad young lady' route at all?

It would be weird if there was really not one Basschatter playing in Birmingham, Redditch, Coventry, Solihull, Leamington Spa, Rugby or Banbury that weekend! Extending the search pattern as far as Leicester would also drag in Aylesbury, Gloucester and Wolverhampton. As to the Forest Of Dean, there's those as would argue that's technically Welsh. Deffo not part of Warwickshire anyway ...

Seeing a mate's band on the Thursday night in London, but looking for other stuff to do in the evenings in London and (strangely) the Warwick area. Anyone gigging in either area?

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1427271254' post='2728008'] Lightwave fretless with flats. [/quote] If you go that route, you need to be a very precise player. I had a Lightwave Sabre and it was truly lush, but there's nowhere to hide your mistakes!

Nah, I can see where you're coming from and it's not hard to understand, but my experience of pondlife has been rather different. For me, trolls are people who post things designed purely and simply to be provocative, to get a rise, to try to wind people up. That clown Bronner wasn't posting about his experience to share it with us, or so that we could learn from it, or because he thought we might find it funny. His very first post was a rant about a one-off experience that he claimed to have had some years ago. By a bizarre "coincidence", that experience happened to feature the most controversial manufacturer (in Basschat terms), the one about whom there are the strongest views, and the one most likely to lead to a row. He was obviously pulling the chain to see who'd flush. And then it emerges he's apparently a Yankee operating through a disguised IP address. Trolls are, almost by definition, devious. Trip-trap, trip-trap ...

We're going off in a whole 'nother direction, but I was always amused to see the name of the choreographer on Top Of The Pops back in the 70s ... FLICK COLBY. Of course I was younger then, and we had to make our own entertainment.

Several excellent replies already. The UBass is certainly a pretty cheap partial solution, and it doesn't have to be a Kala either (I use the cheapo Harley Benton one). The Godin / Rob Allen / Renaissance route can deliver but IMHO only with very careful string choice (right now my Rob Allen wouldn't fool anyone). I've owned lots of Hofners, but strangely enough never a fretless. Again, a Hofner hollowbody (violin or club) or semi (Senator or President) will get you somewhere near but without convincing. Probably the closest you'll get is something like the big Takamine (can't remember the model) which has a telescopic end-spike and can actually be played as a sort-of upright. You've not mentioned budget though, and that could easily rule out many of these suggestions.

[quote name='BassBus' timestamp='1427215060' post='2727352'] I once fancied a Ric so I wrote to Geddy Lee and asked if he would sell me his as he doesn't use it anymore. He's a good guy. He wrote back and said; "No you can't". Trouble was he couldn't spell can't. [/quote] Nice work.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1427213826' post='2727315'] The trick to FB is to be careful what info you publish as with all these online things... knowledge is power and has value, IMO.. [/quote] And never forget - the Internet is for ever. Just because you've forgotten, or want to forget, something you posted (in haste, in anger, in drink, whatever) doesn't make it go away.

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1427212405' post='2727279'] I've been here since May 2007 and on bassworld before that for about 2 years and I've always been uninteresting and worthless. [/quote] Luxury!

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1427207946' post='2727167'] Personally I've never signed up to FB or Twitter either but I'm aware that millions have and it's obvious that there is a platform right there for doing all the stuff that established current sites like this and lots of others for a whole range of interets serve. [/quote] Next up ... Mumsnet.

What could [i][b]possibly [/b][/i]go wrong?