Happy Jack

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.

Ah well, you'll not be popping in to West London to experiment with mine then!

http://youtu.be/KE-bwymSzuo

So the handles are made of tolex? Or is it the feet? We should be told! Luckily enough, my daughter never saw fit to develop her musical talent. That means that all the Barefaced cabs around here are mine ...

Whereabouts are you?

In that case try running a standard instrument lead (1/4" jack) from there to the input on a power amp. That should work fine. If it does, then pretty much any cheapish power amp (as used for PA systems) will do the job for you. If you are in any way associated with the PA in your band, you might want to check whether the PA power amp has a spare/unused channel.

Is he planning to be cryogenically preserved for future resuscitation do you think?

Does your AER have a Line Out socket?

I'm really very nearly GAS-free, and I already have two Mike Lulls which are my go-to gigging basses, but that Thunderbird, ooooh that T5 Thunderbird ...

I once owned http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/library/Basses%20SOLD/Westone%20The%20Rail%201986%20SOLD which leads me to believe that the answer is ... closer than you might think.