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Airbourne in Frome tonight. An hour and a half of big dumb riffs and rock & roll stupidity and a really great crowd. Even Thatcher couldn't shut down that pit! Im battered. Superb

Thank you. Old MIJ Fenders?

Everything’s Ruined - Faith No More

Earlpilanz on ebay did my dingwall recently,turned out pretty nicely. Had to send my old one in as they didn't have a template but was a pretty quick turnaround once they got it

The horse has already bolted when it comes to AI in music. Tools like Suno can generate full songs, backing, melody, vocals, from a short text prompt, (and give you the stems) and they’re already in the hands of bedroom producers and ad agencies. Using The Beatles as an example, because why not: Imagine a system trained only on music up to 1966. Feed it the Beatles’ catalogue up to that point and say, “Write the next Beatles song.” What you’d get would sound far closer to something from the Red Album era than anything on the Blue Album. That’s because these models learn patterns from existing material and recombine them in plausible ways. They’re excellent at imitation, pastiche, and interpolation, but they don’t experience the cultural shocks, new instruments, studio breakthroughs, or interpersonal dynamics that pushed the Beatles from early singles into the Sgt. Pepper/Abbey Road period. From a business perspective, that’s not necessarily a problem. Plenty of genres run on “don’t scare the fans,” and production music for TV, film, and ads often just needs to hit a familiar brief. For that world, a machine that can churn out convincing, on‑brand material forever is close to ideal. AI is here to stay, and it will dominate the “we need something that sounds like X” space. The real question is this: AI can remix what it has seen in novel combinations, but that’s not the same as being part of a scene, reacting to new technology, or four humans in a room pushing each other somewhere unexpected. Will these systems ever produce the equivalent of the Blue years, those left‑turns where a band invents a new sound rather than iterating on the old one? Imitation is easy. Evolution is the hard part. TL:DR current AI excels at stylistic imitation rather than genuine artistic evolution.

That's amazing! Great news! Thank you very much!

Everything Dies - Type O Negative

Don’t Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

Girl afraid. Smiths

You think he'd of at least ironed the top and bottom before glueing it up, it's all wrinkled! Seriously though, it looks superb. It still amazes me that a flat slice of tree can have such a 3d effect as this. It looks like a satin sheet.

I can confirm that I've seen these rounded pickups with square holes on a lot of old Japanese basses (I always take everything apart).

your never alone with a bass...

Absolutely what Dave says above, this takes me back to being a teenager and I’m in.

I’m A Boy - The Who

A new way to lose fingers efficiently... 🤦🏻😂🤪

Quick build update, in the spirit of mistakes building character. Found a small scratch in the poly on my wenge/elm bass and decided to sand it out. Poly responded with witness lines, I responded by sanding more, and together we agreed this was now a learning exercise rather than a repair. Several poor decisions later I was stripping the entire body with a heat gun. The poly came off, my confidence followed, and the heat encouraged part of the wenge/elm joint between the pickups to lift slightly, just to make sure I got full value from the experience. It’s now re-glued, clamped, and will be reassessed once cured. There’s no finish on it, so it’s all fixable — just slower than planned and significantly more educational. Upside: it’s moving to nitro. Builds aren’t always about the good stuff — sometimes they’re about standing in the workshop looking at your own handiwork and thinking, “Well… at least I won’t do that again.”