Happy Jack

[quote name='bassace' timestamp='1414255990' post='2587619'] I don't want to give a talk, Nik, but I'll set up a double bass in the theatre and do some one to ones - or even one to fives if anyone wants a go. [/quote] Would you like me to bring a DB down so that more people have a chance to try what you show them?

You or Colin should still have the box of prizes left over from last year's abortive Tombola ...

Not quite green? NOT QUITE GREEN? Putting green strings on doesn't count, OK?

I used to own [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20SOLD/Shuker%20Horn%202010%20SOLD/IMG_6502.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20SOLD/Shuker%20Horn%202010%20SOLD/IMG_6502.jpg[/IMG][/URL] I still own [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/SGC%20Nanyo%20Bass%20Collection%20SB320/SGNanyo7_zps7870951d.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20CURRENT/SGC%20Nanyo%20Bass%20Collection%20SB320/SGNanyo7_zps7870951d.jpg[/IMG][/URL] And I still can't understand why no one has yet posted any photos of a Ricky in SnotGlo ...

I can't believe you haven't posted any pictures of the previous act!

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1413967660' post='2584055'] As I say, if you would like it you can have it for £90. If not I'll keep it as I think for the money it is a remarkably good and usable bass. [/quote] Trades?

It's £1800 for the bass + £3200 for the Camel ...

[quote name='Doddy' timestamp='1413891024' post='2583138'] I play 5 strings 90% of the time, and there are times when I don't touch the B string all night. There are other times when I might play further up the neck to give my shoulder a bit of a rest. I really don't like it when people camp out on the low B just because it's there, especially in a trio setting-it doesn't add weight, it often sound emptier. [/quote] Absolutely +1 to this. [quote name='dave_bass5' timestamp='1413900029' post='2583313'] Low D at the end of every song :-) [/quote] Just a +0.5 for this ... it's not the low D I use but the low B. We play a reasonable number of songs in B and finishing a song with just the B on the E-string feels a bit lightweight. I usually play that and double it with the low B, which can sound really majestic. In truth, my favourite aspect of a fiver is that I play the low E at the 5th fret on the B-string. I can get around the neck much faster that way, and play in a far more relaxed fashion.

It's all in the fingers. I never know what I'm about to play until I hear them play it.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1413817889' post='2582275'] Nor me. But as a fanboi I feel it necessary to stir things up a bit. [/quote] Barefaced [i]fanbois [/i]are [u][b]SO [/b][/u]last year. 2014 is the year of the TKS [i]fanboi [/i](or whatever is the Swedish for [i]fanboi[/i]). Do try to keep up.

[quote name='Marc S' timestamp='1413803900' post='2582013'] If it was a Rick copy, it'd be pulled off ebay straight away They are more in fear of legal action, than a buyer being ripped off [/quote] Well they're hardly alone in that, are they?

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1413812863' post='2582181'] ... and also draws comments on looks ... [/quote] Really? I mean, [i][b]really[/b][/i]? You actually get people come up to you after (or maybe during) gigs and say: "[color=#ff0000][i]Wow! Your bass cab looks mighty sexy boy![/i][/color]" You've been gigging a lot longer than I have, Michael, and at a noticeably higher level, but I'm still amazed to read that. How often does it happen?

I always go commando on DB gigs.

Outstanding!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TONE-KING-CONTINENTAL-AMP-1994-SUPERB-TONE-OWNED-BY-THE-BLACK-CROWES-/321551913579?pt=UK_MusicalInstr_Amplifiers_RL&hash=item4addfcd26b

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1413545159' post='2579332'] So was his dad ripped off, or is it him trying to rip us off? [/quote] [Patrick Moore] Well this-is-one-of-those-things-that-we [size=5][i][b]just, don't, know[/b][/i][/size]. [/Patrick Moore]

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?