Happy Jack

In fairness, if his Dad bought it in the early 90s (i.e. pre-Internet) then there was a LOT less information about this sort of stuff out there, and it was far easier to get done, even with a fraud as amateurish as this.

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1413485591' post='2578844'] ... but with the handle on top that doesn't make it the easiest one hand lift ... [/quote] Aaaaargh!!! He mentioned handles ...

Lovely to look at, but I'd be worried that you might need a crane to lift it.

[quote name='mentalextra' timestamp='1413473627' post='2578621'] yep and thats an issue for me [/quote] Do you not like shortscale basses? I wouldn't want to play one all the time (my main bass is 35" scale) but they're a lot of fun, and they do capture that thuddy 60s tone soooooo nicely.

No worries Joe, and (believe it or not) I had you down in my mind as a Marmite-lover ...

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1413273065' post='2576468'] ... and was afraid the place would be full of prancing rock gods who would sneer at me and jostle me in the corridors [/quote] I can't have been there that year ...

I have to ask ... which island?

There are some scabs just have to be picked, aren't there? In truth, I had noticed that it was a while since the last have-a-pop-at-Barefaced thread on Basschat, and I was wondering whether people had finally given up banging their heads against brick walls. What was I thinking? As I near the end of my career (at long bloody last) I am more than ever persuaded that cash is king, and that the public votes not with its feet but with cash. Opinions are indeed like aerosols. All that matters is, DO THEY SELL? I dread to think how much money Unilever have made from selling Marmite. But sell it they do, and in astonishing quantities. The British public can't get enough of the stuff. You can lecture them until you're blue in the face about how awful it tastes, how tricky it is to serve, how those funny foreigners have far better products available and you really can't understand why everybody doesn't buy them instead. And you know what. Nobody gives a flying f*** what your opinion is. They know what they like, and they like Marmite, and they really do not care that a self-appointed expert is telling them they are wrong. Now, what was it we were talking about?

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1413134922' post='2575185'] I don't think you have to tip anywhere regardless of the service. It's not mandatory. [/quote] You've not tried to get a second drink in a NYC bar after failing to tip for the first one then? Any bar in NYC, it's a dollar a drink to the bar staff. Sure, you can choose to be a tourist and refuse to play, but you'll find that you just became invisible ...

From a 25-year-old copy of Music Trades magazine: [size=5][u][b]JAPAN[/b][/u][/size] ATLANSIA = Atlansia CHU SIN GAKKI = Charvel ESP = ESP, Focus, Kramer FUJIGEN GAKKI = Casio, Fender, Greco, Ibanez, Heartfield, Squire (sic), Westone HEADWAY = Riverhead KASUGA = Blade, Tune, Washburn, Yamaha KAWAI = Fernandes, Kawai, Rockoon MORRIS = Aircraft, Fender, Hurricane, Bill Lawrence, Morris SHIMOKURA = Boss Axe, Chandler, Mosrite TAKAMINE = Takamine TERADA = Aria, Epiphone, Terada TOKAI = Aria, Greco, Tokai YAMAHA = Yamaha [size=5][u][b]KOREA[/b][/u][/size] CORT = Cort, Hohner, Kramer SAEHAN = Applause, BC Rich, Celebtiry, Fernandes, Ovation, Vester, Westone SAMICK = Aria, Epiphone, Hondo, Marathon, Samick, Vantage, Washburn YOUNG CHANG = Fender, Fenix, Hurricane, Morris, Squier [size=5][u][b]TAIWAN[/b][/u][/size] YAMAHA = Yamaha

I've played regular gigs at three pubs where a hat / jug / bucket / whatever was part of the regular arrangement, usually on top of a £150 fee (we normally go out for£250). At one venue the jug was taken around by someone with the band, and usually returned something at least half-decent, say £50. At the other two, the jug was taken around by a member of the bar staff and the contents "counted" behind the bar before being given to the band. Strange to relate, the amount given to the band always seemed to be a lot less than it looked when we saw the jug going round. We no longer play those gigs. At all.

But she has told us NOTHING ....

But if one artist gets very much deeper into the music than another, would that not be a strange division in altitudes?

[quote name='Graham' timestamp='1412858542' post='2572723'] ... but they're a different company now. [/quote] Who are?

Bloody Rickenbackers, eh?

Still not convinced by the marketing possibilities of a boutique valve amp with a puddle of oil under it.

Is this free admission? Or do we get paid to come in? What time is KO? The SouthEast BassBash is happening that afternoon in deepest, darkest Surrey.

Returning to the fray, combining motorbikes with iconic valves, how about DESMO?

Bit unfair to describe Sunderland as a "category" ...

Tuning down like that is something I've not done, but with regular EADG on my Precisions my favourite strings are LaBella FLs. I really don't like chromes, and I find the LaBellas far more sympathetic to the blues / blues-rock / soul that I normally play. If I can't get LaBella (they're often out of stock) then I'll go for Status Hotwires or Lakland (the ones they used to market as Joe Osborne flats).

Outstanding work Dad. Thanks. I've got a rehearsal starting in 10 minutes (at which, bizarrely, I expect we'll spend a while watching videos of ... erm ... our last rehearsal ) so I'll drop back down onto this at a later stage. While I'm at it, thanks to all who have come up with information and suggestions - much appreciated.

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1412790209' post='2572120'] As it's all valve, call it the V.Max. As in Yamaha's best ever muscle bike. [/quote] Sod that! If that's yer thinking, then call it Buell!

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1412787163' post='2572075'] Always thought Jon Anderson sounded like a girl, but when he speaks he sounds like a proper bloke, so he's all right now in my book. [/quote] To my ears, he sounds just like Sean Bean.