Happy Jack

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1421063659' post='2656640'] Thats a lot of time to prepare, how'd it go ? [/quote] First genuine LOL in the office for 2015 ...

[quote name='UglyDog' timestamp='1421064548' post='2656659'] And on that basis, you're happy to label [i]all[/i] piano-based kbdists as 'NOT team players'? Okay then. [/quote] Colour me puzzled, Rich. Keyboardists are notorious for exactly this, and especially with regard to the left-hand thing. My experience is far less extensive than Mark's, and I've only played regularly with four KB players, but I have a 100% record of bloody irritating musicians (no matter how good they are technically) who will not play for the band or the song, but think that everything should revolve around them. On that basis, I'm certainly prepared to label a few of 'em ...

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1420978258' post='2655666'] Whiskey bottle No depression Satan your kingdom must fall down [/quote] Trying to tell us something, mate?

Hunt The Saddle? http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Fox-Hunt-The-Saddle-Club-Book-22-/271555055962

I was very slow to adapt to these 'touch' interfaces. In fact, my first few basses had keyboards ...

I don't remember this thread from first time around, but my first thought was to wonder why someone in Greece would buy a bass made in Bulgaria from a dealer in the USA. Has anyone looked at a map recently?

[quote name='Count Bassy' timestamp='1420646147' post='2651693'] What is this 'changing strings' thing of which you speak? [/quote] +1 Flats, dear boy, flats are the answer.

[quote name='ead' timestamp='1420792193' post='2653373'] Doesn't Shuker also run a 'build a bass' course? Not sure how comprehensive it is though. [/quote] This would be a great place to start. I think Jon runs a 3-day build-your-own-bass course which would not only give you a better idea of your abilities but also give you the chance to ask Jon's opinion. Which, I suspect, is worth having.

This one was apparently made in the toilet (you might want to give it a few minutes). http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Squizz-Fender-Jazz-Bass-Guitar-/201255396129?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2edbc1a321

I find that I use a very different technique with my Baby Bass. Rather than holding it close to me like my DB, I hold it upright, often nearly at arm's length, so that I am plucking with my right hand quite close to where it would be on a DB. I let the bass lean slightly forward, into my "fretting" fingers (you know what I mean), so that the weight of the bass supplies much of the pressure to hold the strings against the fingerboard. All this, plus the amplification, means that I don't need to either hold the neck so firmly or pluck so hard. I think of my Baby Bass as a cousin of my DB, not its brother. If I tried to play them both in the same way I'd hit the buffers pretty quickly. Incidentally, if you YouTube the Baby Bass (there are plenty of brands besides KK) you'll soon notice how differently the salsa players handle it.

"Shipping: Will ship to Guernsey." So that's alright then.

That's nonsense Mick. I was down the chip shop just the other day and ...

So much depends on the instruments in your band. The bassline I play for [i][b]Don't Be Cruel[/b][/i] bears little resemblance to that played by Bill Black ... in fact what I play is far harder (especially since I'm singing too). The reason is that my bassline has to make up for the absence of a piano in our line-up. Much/most of the "bassline" that people hear on that song is actually the pianist's left hand, so I have to introduce those notes that would otherwise be missing. If we're covering a number originally played by a line-up of two guitars, bass & drums then I'll try to replicate the original bassline. Otherwise, what matters is making it sound like the original, which may involve doing something quite different.

Bloody funny-looking Wal, that is ...

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1420461711' post='2649527'] He never got the last 'double' verse (starts with 'I was drowned') sorted at all and now just sings a garbled repeat of bits of the first 2 verses instead. [/quote] Well that would certainly be enough to make me frown at the crumbs on a crust of bread.

If that's an ergonomic design, I really really want to see the guitarist.

Shouldn't you have been out carol singing or something?

Going very slightly OT, my main band has a one-member-veto system on any new song (though it's not like we have a formal constitution and that's written down somewhere ) but I never exercise my veto without first learning to play the song, no matter how unenthusiastic I am about it. Some of the best basslines I've played have been in songs that I hated! Plus I wouldn't want anyone to think I had vetoed a song just because I couldn't handle the bassline. No, the truth is that Rythm Stick is a rubbish song with a rubbish bassline. Ahem.

The Boxer?

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1420035943' post='2645041'] Has Jaco got a sh*t logo too? [/quote] Don't need a sh*t logo when your taste in beanie hats is as bad as that ...

I'm sure I don't know what you mean ... [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Performance/Sundry/JDXmasBash2014089_zpsf23fc817.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Performance/Sundry/JDXmasBash2014089_zpsf23fc817.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

I particularly like the way you cut from huge, showpiece gigs to pub rock ... really gives the sense that you're up for anything as long as it's a decent gig.

Don't talk about sex, religion or politics.

Don't forget that you'll need the usual facilities ... toilet, tea point, etc.