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One Bad Monkey

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I'm playing PIPPEN in a couple weeks, which is a "very" 70's musical. I'm planning on using my SX Jazz bass for more of that sound. Upon plugging it into the new amp, I get no sound. After inspection, it turns out that the input jack is broken. It's my fault, I never bought a new one for it, just new pots.

 

So, I order an input jack. After checking some other things out, I end up buying a new pickguard for it. The one on it currently used to be on a couple of other jazz basses of mine, and as such has a couple extra holes in it. Then, I magically end up buying a set of Seymour-Duncan Vintage Jazz pups for it. I figure that since I was going to have the pickguard off anyway, why not finally get some pups for it?

 

Add in some Orange Drop caps and some old school cloth wire, and suddenly fixing the input jack just seems like a catalyst more than anything else.

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It's the same old story. You put on a bigger carburetor, then you find out it's not doing much good because the lift duration on the stock cam is all wrong. So you change the cam only to discover the stock exhaust system won't let the engine breathe right. So you install a high performance exhaust system, but now the clutch is slipping because of all the extra horsepower. Now you have to install a racing clutch that'll transfer the power, but the tranny can't stand the strain and blows its lunch all over the boulevard. You buy a beefed up transmision, but the rear wheels won't stay glued to the road because the real axle is hopping all over the place. So you install a set of ground-grabbers and a week later the rear-end sounds like it's full of rocks because you've broken half the teeth off the ring gear. You put in a heavy rear-end, but now that all the power is being glued to the road the motor mounts come apart, the engine torques over and sends the fan through the radiator and here you are the front of the car working your way back once again.

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