Happy Jack

Bluejay will do it faster than your fingers can move ... Incidentally, am I to understand that there will now be a special seminar by Sir Bradley of Sideburns?

7/- to see Cream ... what a rip-off!

Summer of '76, the Monday night residency by AC/DC. I caught four of them on the trot, routinely getting sprayed with Angus-sweat. ******************************** Monday 21st March 1977, debut appearance for Australian band Strapps. I've never forgotten that gig. It was quite simply the loudest gig I have ever attended, and (like most of you) I've attended some pretty bloody loud gigs. ********************************* July '77, can't remember the date (not surprising, really) but seeing The Damned (spelled correctly!) was the last-ever punk gig I went to. There's only so much being-gobbed-on that a boy can take. ********************************* What that extraordinary list really does for me is to underline just how many great acts I never bothered to go and see.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1379422105' post='2212445'] Packing is second to none. [/quote] ... but sometimes completely OTT, and not even a bit Green.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1379414490' post='2212293'] I played for a darts team years ago and one of the pubs we played at had the gents toilet door between the board and where you stood to throw... Who's idea was that... ridiculous... Rob [/quote] You just need to know the House Rules ... earlobe of a passing punter = Double Top.

The body appears to have been relic'd with a blowtorch and some sandpaper.

I haven't yet had to return anything to Thomann (and I've been a regular customer with them for years), so on the one hand I can't offer much advice about returning stuff, but on the other hand you might like to know how rare it is for something to turn up which differs from what you were expecting. At the risk of resorting to cultural stereotypes, my experience of doing business with Germans, ALL Germans, is that they are absolutely punctilious and reliable. I've never yet had a bad experience when dealing with either a German business on t'Net or with a German individual on, for example, eBay.

Rics are probably the most versatile instruments out there. Most basses will get you into a pub or a concert hall, but only a Ric will get you into Court.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1379368666' post='2211971'] Pub gig to me is 2x45, pubs makes on the bar to pay band. Regular music nights, mainly covers. If the pub has a 'function' room and sells tickets on the door, then not a typical pub gig. IMO [/quote] This ... plus the band are contractually obliged to set up in front of the door to the Gents toilet.

[quote name='Marc S' timestamp='1379345505' post='2211512'] Would like to get to a bass bash..... [/quote] If there isn't already a South Wales BassBash you could always start one ...

Good grief chaps, try to keep it simple: [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/170855100285?lpid=54&device=c&adtype=pla&crdt=0&ff3=1&ff11=ICEP3.0.0&ff12=67&ff13=80&ff14=54&ff19=0"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/170855100285?lpid=54&device=c&adtype=pla&crdt=0&ff3=1&ff11=ICEP3.0.0&ff12=67&ff13=80&ff14=54&ff19=0[/url]

[quote name='barkin' timestamp='1379338745' post='2211414'] This all sounds great, and I'd love to come along, but apparently I'm busy - moving MissB to uni or something... [/quote] Cambridge --> Addlestone/Chertsey for a BassBash would certainly be a show of devotion! You may find that there are two, perhaps three, BassBashes which are held closer to you ...

[quote name='GregBass' timestamp='1379281557' post='2210910'] My mate bought this - he's borrowing my Warwick till he collects. I'll give you a report when it arrives [/quote] He's done well then ... that's at least £100 less than I'd expected. For £155 that is a serious amount of bass he's bought.

Most memorable moment for me was the inappropriately-dressed 20-something who turned up as part of an inebriated crowd halfway through the second set. Within 10 minutes, she was walking through the pub clutching both a double G&T and a full glass of Chardonnay in her left hand, leaving her right hand free to accept the largest short I've ever seen (I'm guessing it was a triple vodka of some sort) which she knocked back in one. She then stood there in a daze for several minutes, weaving and wobbling and being held up by two friends, while she very obviously considered vomiting over much of the audience. Good times.

Depping on DB at The Troubadour with Dani Molino on Thursday 26th September ... what could possibly go wrong? [url="http://www.participant.co.uk/participant/arrangement.aspx?id=79475&hash=746D5F81C595240BD8978BDC28749A25"]http://www.participant.co.uk/participant/arrangement.aspx?id=79475&hash=746D5F81C595240BD8978BDC28749A25[/url]

http://www.verellenamplifiers.com/products.html Mmmmm ... nice.

I've played a Precision through an MB500 into a Super12 and had no odd sounds or effects. If your rig sounds fine when you play a Jazz through it, then the focus has to be on the P-bass and whether it has any issues. That's a very "clean" rig which won't disguise or colour the input ... maybe the pickups on the P are too high and too close to the strings?

[quote name='silverfoxnik' timestamp='1379247010' post='2210201'] Okay Folks, here's the list of prizes that we have had donated so far.. I know there's more that people have said they'll donate on the day, so I can't list them here yet. But if you have anything you'd like to donate, please add it to the lists below.. Ideally, we're looking for 5 or 6 main Raffle prizes and as many as we can get for the Tombola.. so please give generously (as they say). Thanks [b]Raffle Prizes[/b] 01. Squier Vintage Modified Jaguar Bass HB in black (donated by Fender GBI) 02. Orange Crush PiX CR25BX Bass Combo Practice Amp (donated by WalMan) 03. Behringer EQ Pedal (donated by Clarky) 04. Rock-Wire Instrument cable (donated by obbm) 05. [b]Tombola Prizes[/b] 01. Pearloid Tort P Bass Scratchplate (donated by WalMan) 02. Jazz Bass Control Plate (donated by silverfoxnik) 03. Guild acoustic bass strings (donated by throwoff) 04 - 08. 4 x packs of velcro cable tidies 09 - 12. 4 x rolls of gaffa tape in different colours 13 - 16. 4 x 1m lengths of pedal board velcro 17. 18. 19. 20. [/quote]

Yup - to my very simplistic way of thinking, that's two gain stages followed by a pad before you actually reach the pre-amp on the AD200. Dead easy to test though ... try it all but without the Sansamp. If your on-board pre-amp has a by-pass then obvious;y try that as well. If you active bass sounds fine when played as a passive, using the passive input, then in theory it should also sound fine played as an active, using the active input.

I thought the AD200 had separate inputs for Active & Passive basses?

God's Teeth! Will you all stop calling her "You Tube Girl"! Her name is Marta Altesa. She's really rather good, isn't she?

On the subject of Baby Basses, the plan is for Kris Kedzior (of KK BabyBass) to do a presentation about his basses. He'll have a couple of KKs with him, and I'll bring mine, so there will be a chance for people to try them out ... having an original Ampeg there would certainly be interesting. If only for the smell.

Bizarrely enough no (never having actually been to Derby - did I miss much?). It was in Wandsworth and was being sold - seriously - by a pro bass player who was also selling a gorgeous pair of Wal Customs, one fretted and one fretless.