Happy Jack

Then you need this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WAFERDALE-PROFESSIONAL-MICROPHONE-/301104440523?pt=UK_Music_Instruments_Microphones_MJ&hash=item461b3924cb

The only real use I ever found for mine was when I needed to sound "different" for some reason, usually only for a short time. The best example was when a functions band I was in wanted to do Mercy by Duffy. The first four bars are played by an instrument with a lot of "sproing" about it. Might be keys/synth, might be a heavily-effected guitar or bass. I played that riff on bass through an envelope filter. It sounded nothing at all like the original but no one noticed or cared ... what mattered was that it sounded different.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha914XeQtKU&feature=youtu.be

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1393511820' post='2381242'] The main thing is the feel of the note ... [/quote] This one feels fine. Even if you handle it and then handle a genuine £10 and a genuine £20, you'd not immediately say "Now hold on just a minute!". It might be different if you could handle it and then handle a genuine £50, but I wouldn't bet on it.

[quote name='KiOgon' timestamp='1393432240' post='2380259'] As a matter of interest - I don't think it's been mentioned - how did it get proved a fake? [/quote] Someone tried to spend it in a shop and it was spotted by the shop-keeper. On close inspection:[list] [*]The reflective strip was wider than it should be; [*]There was no hologram thingy; [*]The letters spelling "Fifty Pounds" were not slightly embossed; [*]The watermarked portrait of the Queen appeared to have been drawn by a 12-year-old; [*]The watermarked "50" contained numbers of different sizes; [*]The paper was not linen-based and was easily torn. [/list] Listed out like that, it sounds as if it should have been easily spotted, right? Not so. The manager had a bad cold and left halfway through the last set, thrusting a bundle of rolled-up banknotes into Bluejay's hand (@ Discreet: if you say [u][i][b]one word[/b][/i][/u] I'm coming round to see you ). Our first sight of the money was therefore at about 12:30am following the breakdown after the gig, we were all knackered, and it was not a particularly well-lit pub. And besides, the dodgy note was given to MacDaddy. Besides which, I've tried it out on a number of people in broad daylight with the very fact of the question itself dropping a pretty broad hint. No one has yet spotted anything. Until I tell them it's a fake, whereupon it's all: "[color=#0000ff]Y'know, I [i][b]thought [/b][/i]it felt funny / looked a bit strange / didn't seem right[/color]".

[quote name='KiOgon' timestamp='1393433161' post='2380283'] IIRC rubbing the note on a sheet of white paper - if any red ink comes off onto the paper it's a wrong'n *apparently*! [/quote] Close ... but no cigar. The ink on a genuine £50 note never dries completely. If you rub one with a piece of white tissue paper, it's [i][b]supposed [/b][/i]to stain!

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1393497153' post='2380929'] I think a white bass needs something to make it stand out. [/quote] Mine has me ...

[quote name='SpaceChick' timestamp='1393489296' post='2380791'] Here are my top tips: Don't drink until after you've played Expect the first few songs to be played faster through nerves If you have an active bass take an extra battery! Have spare leads, at some point you will need them (usually for guitarists ) And most importantly...... HAVE FUN and report back afterwards!! [/quote] +1 Above all, keep it simple. In [i][b]every [/b][/i]respect. Take the bare minimum kit that you will need (plus spares to be left in the boot of the car as appropriate). Use exactly the rig that you rehearse with, play exactly the way you play at rehearsals, etc. etc. Just don't introduce any new complications or distractions and you'll be fine.

Don't be ridiculous! The green tip on the pickup selector switch is entirely wrong for that colour scheme.

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Well, the band talked it through after rehearsal last night. We've decided to take the hit and move on. We re-divi'd up the money but now based on £150 instead of £200. I've ended up holding on to the fake. I've just gone out and bought a perspex picture frame, a couple of screw-eyes, and some picture wire. By our next gig (this Saturday) the fake £50 will be hanging from one of our PA poles. When we get paid at the end of the evening, if there are any £50 notes in there I'll point to the fake and say: [i][b]Sorry chum, that's why we don't take them[/b][/i].

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1393423295' post='2380036'] Everyone should know about the others, and accept that you are in more than 1 band. You will have a "main" band. There has to be a pecking order. First in the diary gets it unless another gig comes in with a long enough lead time to get the dep involved. Make sure you have good deps on hand. Always make sure you're better than the deps. Gigs always top trump rehearsals. What rehearsals? [/quote] Not being as good as Chris (or as much in demand), I'd love to apply his advice but don't get the opportunity. My sig lists four bands, but only the Dogs is a regular weekend gig (roughly twice a month usually, bit more than that at the moment). Dani Molino and Karena Kelly are singer-songwriters for whom I play DB at very occasional mid-week gigs in trendy places like Hoxton (ee lad, I remember when all this were slums). King Ralph only really plays the day-time festivals during the summer, Greenford Festival, Hanwell Carnival, etc. Translation = My four bands don't really occupy the same space, so they never clash. As to rehearsals, certainly with the Dogs they form an essential part of my social life.

I'm thinking you'd want to be using flats on that ...

Maybe your uncle's up there ...

Yes, but not really what I meant! Should we challenge the pub? On what grounds? Should we re-split the remaining £150 four ways and just get over it?

But the Denmark Street shop is still there, it's changed owners but is otherwise much the same place as before. The owner (Ron) has been around for ever. Previously he was Brian's right-hand man at Wunjo's.

The Junkyard Dogs played a gig on Friday and received £200 (introductory rate), in the form of 2 x £50 notes and the balance in £20 and £10 notes. One of the £50 notes has now been discovered to be a forgery, the other was fine. There is no particular reason to think that the pub knew about this. As a band, we have joked about this situation several times but I don't think we seriously expected it to happen. We can't be the first to arrive here ... what normally happens next?

No wish to de-rail your thread, Diablo, but you'll probably a find a better selection (and better prices) here on Basschat!

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1393236173' post='2377539'] Paul... Log on to 'Hofner Hounds' here... [url="http://hofnerhounds.myfineforum.org/index.php"]Hofner Hounds...[/url] ...and look up Hollywolf. He'll rewind a p/up for around £25 or so. Fast turnaround, excellent expertise; he's done several for my guitars and basses. You don't need a new p/up. [/quote] Excellent advice. Even if you need to replace the original pickup after all, there's no shortage of 60's 'staple' pickups on eBay if you keep an eye out. I've been using Andy for years so I'm never sure if he charges advantageous rates for me! Let's go and find out ...

Was that when you were in Spandex Belly?

Does anyone know of a transcriptions book for Jet Harris / The Shadows?

Ouch! Bin there, dun that. The neck does need a reset. The previous owner has clearly exhausted all possible options to avoid doing it ... if he even thought it worth while removing the fretwire in the bridge (thus saving what? a quarter of a millimetre!). Even with a functioning bridge, the intonation was always going to be interesting. God alone knows how far out it is with that arrangement. The bridge is fully-floating, held against the top of the bass purely by string pressure. There's nothing particularly wrong with it being hard up against the bridge pickup - if that is where the intonation works. In practice, it would normally be an inch (or less) behind that pickup. I'd suggest taking it to Andy for a neck reset (he's done loads of those, including one for me) and source a new Hofner bridge from eBay, there's plenty out there. Give me a shout if you want to hook up in/near Denmark Street, maybe grab a pint at The Pillars Of Hercules.

Yup - that's how you do it. There's a reason those Hofners were known for their poor intonation. In all fairness, given the thuddy shortscale and the limitations of early-60's bass amplification, it wasn't actually much of a problem at the time.

The tort crops of the late 60s and early 70s were particularly fine, but the pick-weevil infestations of the late 70s did serious damage and many tort growers were forced to switch to a carbon fibre crop. By 1982 the first attempts at genetically-modified strains of tort were appearing but this generated great controversy, especially since these torts had a tendency to react badly with the epoxy resin used in poor-quality Jaco rip-offs, leading to spontaneous jazz. It is only in recent years that cross-breeding with Galapagos Sprinters has managed to exclude 'the Paisley tendency' in modern tort.