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Hi Jake and welcome Hope you enjoy the forum - lots of useful stuff. (If you're looking to upgrade, check out the gear for sale forums. Better value than the bay or shops and you know who you're buying from, so to speak.)

Hi and welcome With your skills and knowledge, you're going to make a lot of new friends here

Ramonesmania, Highway to Hell, Led Zep IV, Who's Next...that sort of stuff....lots of air guitar, trip over the headphones lead... ...then fall asleep on the sofa.

[quote name='Born 2B Mild' post='478012' date='May 2 2009, 11:28 PM']Oh you are awful, but I like you [/quote] Dick Emery. I met him once.

Hi Marco - welcome:) Cool and characterful spread of gear, too.

Hi Max - and welcome. You've posted some fine stuff already

[quote name='Born 2B Mild' post='477773' date='May 2 2009, 04:08 PM']But here is his mobile (I'm sure he won't mind giving this out) > 07916 347864[/quote] I'll give him a call about 04:30 Sunday and ask him

[quote name='grumble' post='477901' date='May 2 2009, 06:48 PM']Hmmm.... Got a copy of Jaco's first album signed (in felt tip !!) by the man and its a promo disk not retail, if Judie Tzuke can pull in fifty sovs I wonder how much this gem would fetch ?[/quote] IIRC, [i]some[/i] record companies have been trying to seize back promo copies that go to auction / the bay, on the grounds that, legally, the disc still belongs to them. FWIW.

Many people will pay you [i]more[/i] for it with Mojo. Learn to love it

That really is one of the nicest fakers I've seen. I love mapleglo. Just don't tell the Rickresource.

Personally, I don't care much either way, but if they're p*ssing so many people off, they must be doing something right.

Sold him an old Vantage bass. Top man, easy to deal with, cash on the nail and totally reliable

Good luck and safe home.

Try an office supply superstore like Staples?

As you've posted in 'bass guitars' I'll assume it's the socket in the guitar, not the amp, that's the problem. This is [i]not[/i] a biggie and not expensive to fix. But I also suggest you PM a mod and ask them to move your thread to the repairs forum - you may get more responses there... Could either be: * the jack socket - a dirty connection on the contacts or a loose wire / dry solder joint on the wires leading to the jack itself - or * the guitar lead - dirty contacts on the tip / ring (oo-er) or a loose wire / dry solder joint where the wires from the lead attach to the tip / ring contact assembly. First, clean the jacks on your lead with electrical contact cleaner. Stick the lead back in and test the socket again. If it still crackles, hold the jack so it doesn't move around in the socket and try wiggling the cable [i]above[/i] the jack. If it crackles, there's your problem - fix the lead (google for info) or buy a new one. If not, the problems in the jack socket. If that's the case, gain access to the socket and try spraying some electrical contact cleaner on the contacts. If the problem remains, the jack socket can be unscrewed, the connecting wires unsoldered and a replacement installed. You'll find instructions and examples on how to do this on many web sites - just google - or get a guitar tech to do it for you. For a tech, a simple, quick job - half an hour's work, tops, at their rate and a fiver or less for the part

[quote name='The Funk' post='476293' date='Apr 30 2009, 06:54 PM']All of them. The less obvious ones are probably the ones to go for. Every wannabe-Cream act in the '60s and '70s probably nailed all the obvious choices - the obvious choices being anything with [b]a great riff[/b].[/quote] Which inexorably leads us to Led Zep 1...yikes!

[quote name='OldGit' post='476098' date='Apr 30 2009, 03:21 PM']"the (possibly soon-to-be late) Johnny Winter" is he ill?[/quote] Hasn't been well for years - childhood heath probs, addictions, more recent issues. Now performs seated and quite frail. [quote]Most of what I used to listen to when I was really into blues has been mentioned... John Lee Hooker apparently has not. You're all grounded.[/quote] I have shamed myself.

Priceless

Hendrix and SRV as good a way in as any. John Mayer not on my playlist, but good that he's even trying and just as good that you enjoy it. Old Boys: Elmore James, Hubert Sumlin, Buddy Guy, Magic Sam, Earl Hooker, Luther Allison, Albert Collins, Hound Dog Taylor, RL Burnside, T-Bone Walker Newer guys: Matt Schofield, Aynsley Lister, Dave Hole, Sherman Robertson, Ian Siegal, Joe Bonamassa, Gary Moore, George Thorogood, Popa Chubby, Jimmy Vaughan, the late Rory Gallagher, the (possibly soon-to-be late) Johnny Winter, Walter Trout, Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) World of good stuff out there for you to discover - you lucky, lucky man Worth checking out some of the piano and harp artists as well - their backing bands can be phenomenal - e.g. Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter, Kim Wilson

Just a thought. Most types of retailers offer crap service, possibly because they're often horrible places to work with no training and a brooding manager to boot. Why should musical instrument retail be any better? Perhaps we're expecting too much from the sector.

[quote name='KevB' post='475970' date='Apr 30 2009, 01:29 PM']Jumping Jack Flash really threw me when I had to learn it at short notice once. Got the chords, then played along with the recording and....it's neither in B nor really Bb but somewhere between the two, just enough to make me suspect, like others here. it's basically down to a wrong tape speed, whether accidental or deliberate. There are lots of recording by lots of bands from that era that are accurately in tune enough to play along with the recordings without problem. Most Beatles songs I've tried seem to be pretty 'straight' tunings.[/quote] Just remembered! He wrote the song on acoustic and played it, solo, into a small battery powered Philips cassette recorder. That recording was then bounced to a track in the studio where everyone played along with it. The early Philips record /playback speed was also a bit unstable, so add that to Keef playing on his own , probably stoned, and wonky pitch issue is resolved. There's a thread on the open tuning here: [url="http://www.tdpri.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-128340.html"]http://www.tdpri.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-128340.html[/url] which includes a ref to the cassette.

[quote name='chris_b' post='475928' date='Apr 30 2009, 12:50 PM']It was the Varyspeed! Bands like the Stones have minions to tune their guitars, and those guys were always straight when working![/quote] Straight only by comparison with the Stones Have you ever met any of those old 60's roadies - I offer Lemmy as an example! You're right, completely different nowadays, of course, but back then, there were few if any 'guitar techs'. Mostly amp humpers and maybe a bloke with a soldering iron (e.g. Roger Mayer). Hendrix, a notorious out-of-concert-pitcher didn't have a guitar tech, and it showed. In the 60's, Townshend's man, Bob Pridden, was GP driver / roadie / stage asst.

[quote name='bumfrog' post='475892' date='Apr 30 2009, 12:20 PM']sorry, gotta disagree with that. If you are good player you are good player....(edit)...Sorry if I sound a big facetious, I'm having one of them days [/quote] You're absolutely right that it's possible to be technically gifted and musically dextrous without knowing squat about carving a tone. And vice-versa. But it's so much nicer for the punter when it all comes together in one package. Y'know what the problem is? Orchestras have a bloke who stands at the front and faces the musicians, so he's sort of hearing what the punters are hearing. If it doesn't sound nice, he sorts it out. Bands don't have those, and I think we should. Every band should hire a conductor. No need to thank me.

[quote name='Toddy' post='475849' date='Apr 30 2009, 11:37 AM']Just learned a load of american 80,s tunes and had a similair experiance of being slightly out,,, Someone just mentioned that the variances in electrical supply used can effect this,, eg the americans use differant voltages etc,,,,, totally believe this is rubbish,,,, but errrrr,,, is it possible?[/quote] Not to the best of my knowledge. The US Europe thing, IIRC, is US classical musicians using 440hz , and Europeans varying this higher - e.g. 446hz. As regards the Stones (and other bands of the period) being out from 440 - obvious. It was the drugs.

Half the problem is that what sounds good when you're sitting practising in the bedroom (lots of scoop) doesn't work in different environments - rhsal + gig. Trouble is, people neither learn nor are taught how to set up a good basic sound. It's rarely covered in mags or forums (kudos to the OP). And nowhere near as interesting (to many) as discussing the ([i]by comparison[/i]) superficial tonal impact of fitting a badass or valves vs tubes. Additionally, many of the 'gear settings' shown on sites and in manuals are voiced for the bedroom not the stage. Amazingly low profile subject, with little source material. OTOH, we know all there is to be known about stacking cabs on their side! (OT, I don't disagree with BBC - or Cheddatom - about pedal boards though. Guitarist with literally 6 sq feet of pedalboard, just to turn a Boss driver on and off. Sigh) Edit for: [quote name='maxrossell' post='475874' date='Apr 30 2009, 12:08 PM']I just disconnected his footswitch, threw it away and told him that from now on it was a single-channel amp.[/quote] You're scary. I bet they're terrified of you.