Happy Jack

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1411398123' post='2559110'] As for knowing when to throw in your cliched rip-off parts.. [/quote] Bwahahahahahaha!!! I am SO going to have to come along to one of your gigs. Anyone who writes with such sublime Liam Gallagher-like arrogance and contempt must surely be a living GOD amongst bass players. You know, I'm looking forward to this already. Please could you post a list of your up-coming gigs so that some of us can come and worship at your altar?

The biggest debt I owe to Victor Wooten ... "you're never more than one fret away from a 'right note'".

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1411394003' post='2559038'] I know of a bass player who had a pet lick that he would use as a fill over many songs, the problem was is was a specific major fill which, when it was used over a minor progression, sounded plain wrong. [/quote] That's actually a far more persuasive argument, especially to those of us whose playing has "plateau'd". I have a (depressingly small) arsenal of licks I can drop into a bassline, and I've always wanted to be able to chuck new stuff in on the fly - yes, but what if it doesn't fit?

... with well-developed forearms and fingers. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CUSTOM-BUILT-8-STRING-BASS-GUITAR-CAN-BE-PLAYED-LIKE-A-DOUBLE-BASS-SEE-PHOTO-/301290307095?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item46264d3e17

Surprised no one has pointed out http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Takeharu-Bass-Guitar-MATSUMOKU-Made-in-Japan-Very-Rare-model-/121440069608?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item1c466467e8 Never even heard of Takeharu ...

And, of course, they help you to weigh things.

I'm guessing that it must be really good ... for metal.

The last Sunday afternoon gig we played was a couple of years back, on the same afternoon that Andy Murray played in his first Wimbledon Men's Singles Final and there was the British G.P. at Silverstone. [[color=#b22222][i]Note to Blue: In transatlantic terms, think of being up against the SuperBowl and a Mets/Yankees game[/i][/color].] There's been very little enthusiasm since then for playing to an empty room while everyone within 50 yards crowds around a paiur of TVs in the next bar.

In that state? Not a lot ... You might get £200 for it on eBay, but you'd need to be ready for it to sell for less. Bear in mind that, even in mint condition, it would still only be worth £500 or less. That bass is a long way from mint condition.

I'm thinking about those eBay ads which always start with: "If you're looking at this, then you already know about these ..."

That was originally a Hofner Artist, the Selmer import of the Model 185/E2. I can't quite make out the serial number on the reverse of the headstock, I have it as 1?72. If it's 1072 then that was a 1962 bass. Otherwise, it's a 1963. You will obviously have realised that the brass scratchplate and the pair of Jazz pickups are retro-fits, and the paint-job is almost certainly a re-fin. Other than that, it looks pretty much complete and original. +1 to Steve Russell, I owe most of my Hofner knowledge to the time I spent on his site once upon a time ...

[URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Just%20Stuff/Music%20and%20Musicians/TheWhoatHanwell.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Just%20Stuff/Music%20and%20Musicians/TheWhoatHanwell.jpg[/IMG][/URL] I used to play 5-a-side on that court, frequently defending the goal that Keith Moon is sitting in.

[quote name='Wonky2' timestamp='1410821497' post='2553668'] My boy is 9 now, got him started on his 8th birthday..... At first he was just happy to be like dad, but quite soon into it he became interested off his own back.... Really meant a lot to me... [url="http://s296.photobucket.com/user/myzeneye/media/20e171d0-50b0-413b-bd40-65a22cbc6c93.jpg.html"][/url] [/quote] That's great ... when are you going to start him on the frets?

And you know who used to rehearse there?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gufBsF1W3xY

Yup. But when you have a £1000 bass "just sitting there" it feels ten times as bad as when you have a £100 bass "just sitting there".

Ah yes, wow and flutter, ye goode olde dayes. Next up for discussion ... the WEM Copycat.

A credit card.

How much does that thing weigh? And what's the opposite of neck-dive?

Hah! That's an excellent thought, and one I'll include next time I do this talk ... get your set-up right. Good call.

I'm sitting here with my 1995 SB320 on my lap. I was at work when I replied earlier and relying on memory. Bad idea. I thought that the main differences between it and yours were entirely to do with that battery cover/holder and the serial number. In fact, I've just realised that you seem to have an ebony board on there whereas mine is rosewood, and your bridge is completely different from mine. http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/library/Basses%20CURRENT/SGC%20Nanyo%20Bass%20Collection%20SB320 Yours having been bought new it can't have been modified, so I'm even more intrigued than before. Now would probably be a good time to remind everyone that, despite starting this topic (back in 2006 on a different forum ... eek!), I'm not actually an internationally-renowned expert on the subject, I'm just another enthusiast for the brand. Think I'll take a back seat and wait for someone else to contribute. Lovely looking bass, by the way. Do you recall how much you paid for it in 1986?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Legend-Bass-Guitar-With-Tracy-Elliott-Amplifier-/271599034090?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3f3c905eea

Interesting. Maybe it's a trick of the light but the pickups appear to be mis-matched. Are they actually different? And what does it say on them? The back cover is unlike those I've seen before, that battery-holder may be a retro-fit (and quite a good one too), and the S/N is nothing like those originally used by SGC Nanyo in their first 10-year incarnation.

Not having spotted this topic, I just posted a link to the same auction. I reckon that's not a Hagstrom she's got, but a Czech-made Futurama ... the poor cousin of the Kent.