Count Bassy

So if for some medical reason I couldn't drive could I expect the promoter to provide and pay for a taxi both ways? And a real case: I really don't like opera, but it may be that I haven't had the correct education. Would the promoter please supply a qualified tutor to talk me through the performance so that I can fully appreciate it and get the full experience? There was a local case a few years ago where a small museum was told it had to install a lift for disabled people. It couldn't afford this and decided to close. So now nobody can visit. 95% of the population deprived for the sake of 5%. Society should take account of disabled people (although I'm not sure we can call them disabled anymore!!), but not be dictated to by them. I'm a bit grumpy topday because I normally vent myself over Private Eye (my wife calls it my Mr Angry magazine)on a Wednesday evening, but for some reason it didn't arrive yesterday.

I thought that that was what I was saying as well though, admittedly, in a round about way.

This. Tension is the force on the ends of the cable, irrespective of gauge. 'Same pitch, fatter string' or 'higher pitch, Same string' both require more tension. Whether a B string tuned to B or an E String tuned to E requires more tension depends on their relative gauges (assuming the same materials), so it is possible that going from EADG to BEAD will actually reduce the total force on the neck. Of course fitting an additional string without changing the others will always add to the load on the neck.

I have a genuine Woolworth's broom from 1951. It's a bit Roadworn, but the bloke I bought it off (someone called Trigger IIRC) assured me it was genuine, and it sweeps like a dream.

Sorry, should have put a big smiley on the original post - wasn't anticipating any serious replies!!!

But that would need three packs of cards!.

Just wondering.

Another one here, though on occasion took the Dizzy Cap with me! Also but a switch in the (electric) petrol pump circuit for shorter stops - Thief would get a few hundred yards and then stop.

Assuming that you're running this at the same power output as the MB amps I'm not surprised. It will be dissipating a similar amount of power but into a much smaller volume & surface area, so it will run correspondingly hotter.

Quite like some of the vocal phrasing though.

"If you're looking time then you'll be looking until there ain't not crying at the top of the hill. And you know darned well you'll be looking still when you head stops and your body is still." Also: "Weaver of Life, at last now I can see the pattern of my life gone by shown on your tapestry. After days of wondering I see the reason why. You've kept it to this minute, because I'm about to die"

My wife has had both of hers done and also said that the loical anaesthetic was by far the worse part. For the second one she doped herself up with standard issue pain killers (paracetemol/Coedine etc) before hand and said that that helped quite a bit. Once the local jab was done no pain at all though.

That is weird as even the more basic SRs have knurled metal knobs, which are fine (IMHO).

Yes, but that's still better than no bass player at all.

Roger Chapman & the Shortlist in January.

For the live chicago version posted I tend to agree with you, but I thought the studio version released as a single was great ( I actually bought it at the time).

But it's got new strings!

Thing is, if you listen to various versions (by family) of Burleque over the years the bass varies quite a bit, so I wouldn't worry too much about making it sound exactly like the version on Bandstand (or the single).

""As I've not got much going on today I'll offer a thought. A common analogy for music is often that it is like a language. So, say someone is speaking Chinese and you don't understand it, does that make it nonsense? Of course not, if you learnt Chinese you would probably understand it. It can be argued that it is the same with music. If you learnt and enjoyed jazz vocabulary that is similar to those that influenced Jaco, the chances are you will then enjoy it because you can relate to it. " However, to take that analogy further - you can understand another language perfectly, but still not like what the person is saying.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1510052672' post='3403494'] It's all very well saying you can make your own cables, but how do you extract all the oxygen, eh? [/quote] Obvious really: As you pour the snake oil in one end of the cable the oxygen comes out the other.

I love the Creedence version

[quote name='Meddle' timestamp='1509487865' post='3399429'] The worst bass I've owned was a Tuscany 'Bird' bass. The Bird bass was the absolute pits. A junk Chinese 'Rickenfaker' with badly voiced and badly mis-matched pickups. Soft, junk wood, a terrible rippled finish with no clear coat, cheap hardware and crap fretwork. Absolute junk from top to bottom. [/quote] All in all a pretty accurate copy then - except they missed the colour bleed into the binding. This is a joke by the way - I've never played a Rickenbacker (though I did hold one once).

[quote name='FDC484950' timestamp='1509629535' post='3400423'] Trying to desperately drag this back on-topic... I popped in there earlier today. Very little to see if you're a bass player - the usual few Musicmans, bunch of Ibanez and a bunch of Fenders. Won't be visiting again - I appreciate the store is brand new but there's more to see almost anywhere else, plus it was full of tourists! [/quote] I don't pretend to know the figures, but with those 3 brands they've probably got over 50% of the market covered (though suprised no yamaha in there).

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1509542448' post='3399750'] Don't think you are quite up to speed on that one:fancy men thinking they are the only ones who have erections? Who'd have thought it? Having said that, maybe getting back on to topic would be a good thing ? [/quote] OK then: Penile Erections. (But you knew I meant that didn't you).

And, back on subject, PMT in Northampton seems to be a great shop, so I think that one opening in London is probably a good thing.