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Roger's just looking for publicity for his new album... And he's probably right that his rock music peaked in 1971. Just means he's stuck in his own past and hasn't noticed the world moving on.

Well I've certainly got hundreds of albums in my garage that were released by my band, unfortunately they all look and sound very similar ...

Cheeky interim purchase before my ACG arrives. Cheers Jonze! This is a 2006 CIJ Mustang, always fancied one, and the wife has a couple of bass gigs (she plays a Mustang guitar), so made sense! Liking the Fiesta Red more than I thought I would, but was the right price, so don’t care either way! Cleaned up the fingerboard (needed a little TLC), fitted some La Bella Mustang Flatwounds, overall a very cool bass Si

Christ you guys are going to struggle if we have an 'R&B' thread.

I've a list of 'members' that would, in my opinion, deserve the epithet.

Have you tried offering to help carry the stuff to the car, you know, don't leave it all for her to do? I mean, don't strain yourself, obviously ...

I admittedly haven't read the interview, but it sounds like another ageing proponent of rock music doing the genre no favours at all. Like some kind of ailing Egyptian king, wanting all of the riches to be buried along with him. If rock music really did peak in the 1970s then it truly deserves to die off. But I doubt any young bands starting out in the genre would give a flying **** about Daltry's opinion on the matter. In spite of his achievements, I personally have always thought him to be a monumental...

'I grew up in total ruins': Irmin Schmidt of Can on LSD, mourning and musical adventures Should be of interest to a few of you.

No wonder i've flipping seen them. It's my mates flipping band! He flipping engineers for us too at times! What a cupid stunt I am...

The Pink Torpedos Sure I Saw them In Preston ... bit long for a band name

YES!

and also ... All Gates Open: The Story of Can by Rob Young and Irmin Schmidt – review

A folding four-panel screen/room divider, cunningly papered over on one side with a full-sized photo of the hallway wall. Open it up around the junk PA stacked up there and it'll all 'disappear'; she'll be none the wiser. Either that or a Harry Potter cloak.

I would say that 1976 was one of the finest years for rock music... Black Sabbath: Technical Ecstasy Thin Lizzy: Jailbreak Thin Lizzy: Johnny the Fox Rainbow: Rising Rush: 2112 Rush: All the World's A Stage AC/DC: High Voltage AC/DC: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Motorhead: On Parole Peter Frampton: Frampton Comes Alive David Bowie: Station to Station Status Quo: Blue for You Led Zeppelin: Presence Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same Ramones: Ramones Jethro Tull: Too Old to Rock'n'Roll: Too Young to Die! Parliament: The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein Hawkwind: Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music Funkadelic: Hardcore Jollies ZZ Top: Tejas Blondie: Blondie Amongst all the others released that year.

***NOW SOLD**** For sale : £360 (special basschatter price) this fretless CHB-1 conversion. We converted a B-Stock CHB-1 that had faulty fretwork into this fretless beauty! Only one of it's kind. Fitted with GHS Precision strings.

John Paul Jones?

Those born in the 40’s - “The best music was in the 1950’s and 60’s” Those born in the 50’s - “The best music was in the 1960’s and 70’s” Those born in the 60’s - “The best music was in the 1970’s and 80’s” Those born in the 70’s - “The best music was in the 1980’s and 90’s” Those born in the 80’s - “The best music was in the 1990’s and 00’s” - Repeat ad lib till fade.................................

Since when would anyone on the internet look for context in a quote before mouthing off?

And, of course, there's absolutely nothing wrong with being "fine with a Squier". If I played instruments pitched at the level of my playing ability then I'd probably have an Encore and, for me, the Squier would be an aspirational instrument. There is no bassline that I have ever played that couldn't have been played on a £200 bass. The reason I play a Mike Lull T5 (current retail price c.£4500 though that is WAY more than I paid for mine) is simply because I like it, well, love it to bits would be more accurate, and I CAN. "I imagine the sock placement is partly to do with easy of sitting position." And how do you know where Anthony Jackson places his socks?

Group photo of my boards. I separated the Noble+Cali because sometimes that is all I need. Or will just choose between the two fun boards depending who I am playing with.

Because like all high end basses they are different instruments made for people who want something specific that only a Fodera can give them. If you want a Wal or a Ritter or an Alembic you buy one of those and not a Fodera. If you can't get that then you are obviously not the sort of person that these basses are aimed at. If all you want is something with strings capable of playing low notes you'll probably be fine with a Squier.

Most people will have their favourite era, usually according to what age they are. So no, I don't agree with Roger Daltry.

I have kinda shared this in another post but I thought I'd share it here and go into a bit more detail: So this is my pedal board/Rig in a box, the general idea behind it is I play solo, electronic drums off backing tracks, so to gig I take this box and my bass, that's it. The bass signal is split in two, a dry chain and a wet chain: Dry chain; Boss TU -> AROMA ABL-5 Mini Bass Limiter -> Behringer Xenyx Mixer Wet Chain; Boss TU-> Digitech Bass Whammy -> Morley Bass Wah -> Palmer Depressor (Hidden under the shelf) -> Big Muff Pi Nano -> TC Ditto (this changes in and out, just here for fun/practice at the mo, I'm going to have a nice envelope filter here at some point) -> NUX Time Core -> ISP Decimator (again under the shelf) -> Donner Volume Pedal -> DHA-VT1 Bass Driver D.I. -> Behringer Xenyx Mixer Then there's my TC Helicon Create XT for my vocal processing and my lenovo tab 7 that's running my backing/click tracks. I have live mix-downs of my tracks where the drums are panned hard left and the click hard right, so I send the left out to the mixer and the click to my in-ear monitor amp (the little black box behind the mixer). I send a mono full mix to the front of house that they treat like they're playing a CD through the PA (I send it at mic level -20 dB peak so I can run through a D.I., the stage box or whatever they're working with without clipping anything). My in-ears are hard wired and I get a full mix plus click, no amp, no fuss, set up in 1 min flat. I'm very happy with/proud of it.

Inflatable wife ?

I love your avatar, always have. I have GAS for a Fender American Original 60's Precision right now 😍

I read an interview with John Lennon some time ago about the time they went to meet Elvis. He said that they were ushered into a room and Elvis was sat on the couch with his feet up playing a bass, made me think of that famous picture with a similar image. He also said they were bricking it going to meet their hero but it turned out that Elvis was bricking it too meeting the new thing; just goes to show, they were all as human as the rest of us

I have some sympathy becasue I'd like to think I rarely if ever listen to 'rock' but four of that list I would listen to thinking it not to be 'rock'. 'Rock' is pretty much a contested yet meaningless concept until someone defines or explains what they mean by 'rock'. And then one finds that the definition or explanation given includes examples which one feels have very little to do with 'rock'.

Don't go using all the words up , leave some for everyone else I'll let this one settle for a couple of days , I haven't seen my way in yet 🤔

I wouldn't beat yourself up about it Dave. It's easily done.

John Giblin?

If you can get down (up?) the M5 to Stroud I recommend Richard Fitton-Perkins. He teaches classical arco double bass, jazz pizz double bass and bass guitar. You can find him via site called musicteacher.co.uk. I go for lessons and use his lovely double bass.

That second track....incredible.

Hmmmm...Hunky Dory, LA Woman, Led Zep IV, Fragile, Aqualung, Master Of Reality (Paranoid and Black Sabbath were still in the charts), then for the non-rock-fan there's Curtis Live, What's Going On, Surf's Up, Joni's Blue, The Allmans at Fillmore East, Shaft, Bryter Layter. Whilst I fully agree Mr Daltrey is hitching his latest project onto a controversial statement, outside of the pop field there was an enormous amount going on in 1971... I think picking the top of the pops in any year can ruin its credibility...look at '78: in the midst of the Punk Revolution(tm), Paul McCartney spent nine weeks at number one, and Boney M's Brown Girl In The Ring was the biggest selling single of the year...

^ That sounds like a very sensible approach.

Mate I'm definitely in the same position as you in terms of playing ability and the instruments I deserve versus the instruments I have. I own a '90 Streamer Stage 1 5 string, an '08 Thumb NT5 and the retail of these combined would be circa 10K but really I could get by with a £350 Yamaha TRBX305 or similar. But like you I love my basses, not only to play and for their tones but also just to look at and admire the craftsmanship and beauty.

Now come on, Rog, at least give your own band until '73, and Quadrophenia. For me, there's a stretch between '67 (The Who Sell Out) and '73 where they can do no wrong. They came off the boil a bit after that period, but plenty of other bands started peaking then. Waters-era Pink Floyd probably hit their peak between '73 and '77, for example.

So I got myself an amp. Nothing spectacular but managed to get a Line6 LD400 2x10 combo with the FBV footswitch for £160. In great condition. Never played a gig as a bassist, done 300+ as a guitarist so if this thing does me well and the bass playing takes off then I’ll think about upgrading. Was happy to go with Line6 as I’ve had a Spider Valve 112 combo for years and it’s never let me down and I’ve got some great tones from it. I’m also a fan of their recording interfaces and PODFarm software. I’ve also got a EHX Battalion pedal on the way. I like the options on the pedal, especially the overdrive blend feature. So can keep the clean tone running at the same time.

Anyone else interested, can get a brand new air brush from Aldi for £65 https://www.aldi.co.uk/workzone-airbrush-compressor/p/083261211637200

I get the feeling your pedalboards are what pedal-phobes imagine whenever they hear anyone talking about pedals

when my wife gets angry at me for having too many pedals... i show her your pedalboard so thanks!

Any bass sounds good on ...And Justice For All as the original bass played Jason Newsted was turned down to inaudible levels.

I think my first audition made the band giggle. They're a covers band that will cover anything from gossip to audioslave to GnR. I had never been in a band before, and was terrified turning up to the audition. I'd played the bass for years, at home.... When I get there the bassist before me was just tearing down his 2 4x10 rig with Trace head and I immediately thought "shi what am I doing?" I place my 25 watt peavey practice combo next to it and tell the other bassist I was ready to bring the thunder - we have a laugh. I take my guitar out of its bag. Did I forget to mention I didn't actually own my own bass? It's my sister's that I stole years ago and it still has pink ribbons on the case. Anyway... I play my heart out and barely get heard over the thunderous drums. I place my tiny amp in a corner at head height to allow us to just about hear me and somehow I get the gig! We've just booked our 8th gig in July in front of 200 festival goers.

Woolly Mammoth is well-known for not liking active basses. Try the Mastotron as it has an impedance control which makes it work well with active basses.

I always feel like a fraud though, visiting guitar shops when I have no intention of buying anything, like I’m wasting their time. Anyone else feel that? I’m guessing not many! 😁

Despite suggestions that Mr Henry Juskiewicz may continue as CEO one hopes that whoever assumes control will sideline Hapless Hank into a powerless 'continuity' role, wrap him up tight in an NDO and pay him for a year to keep his mouth shut, at the end of which period they fire him out of a howitzer into a barbed-wire factory. It's a tragedy in the truest sense of the word. A man sets out to do good, succeeds for a while then succumbs to hubris and madness. Fate beckons. The cannon roars. Curtain. One of the most piquant details of this sad drama: having tried - and signally failed - to thrust auto-tuning upon guitarists, Gibson now finds itself being sued by Tronical Systems, the license-holder for the much-despised digital Min-e-tuners. Indeed, so loathed are these excrescences that there is actually a land-fill the size of Wolverhampton comprised exclusively of Robo-tuners removed from Gibsons. It remains to be seen why the Hamburg-based Fritzes at Tronical have it in for Hank but being sued for $50m can't have helped Gibson in the last week or so. Juskiewicz: victim of circumstance? Or just a hopeless tw4t?