paul_5

Dig a pony - the lads

Speaking as an Englishman, I think the attraction with moving ‘North of the wall’ would be that I wouldn’t be living in England anymore.

well, that means we don't need to buy another bass - where's the fun in that?

James Hetfield offering him a million dollars to join Metallica might have something to do with it…

Another vote for Stu Hamm here too. I bought one of his albums on the recommendation of another bass player and was spectacularly underwhelmed. His tone seems to lack any kind of low end too.

Punch & Judy - Marillion

Primus. All of it.

Somewhere there's a really beautiful version of this played by Dorian Gray.

Looks like he ran the bit too hot when doing the headstock. Oh, burnished you say? Intentionally? It's like shooting fish in a barrel.

Thing with putting batteries in pedals that are on boards is that they drain current as soon as there is a jack in the input. If you don't unplug the lead from the input jack then it will drain the battery in a matter of hours even though you're not playing through it, whether they're switched on or not. Having to unplug each individual pedal after a gig kind of negates having a board in the first place. I've heard of people using USB power cells with a booster to give 9vDC, but haven't used one myself.

Ebony Eyes - Stevie Wonder

A huge departure from the awesome playing in the video above, but this really impressed me as a budding bassist in the 90s. Steve Vai - Guitar TM Stevens - Bass Devin Townsend - Vocal Terry Bozzio - Drums It's quite the ensemble.

Monster player! I first heard of him when he played on Steve Vai’s ‘sex and religion’ album and he was GREAT on that, but it turns out I’d been listening to him for much longer as a hired gun for loads of other people. A sad loss.

Cupid’s Dead - Extreme

Nice! Is it polyphonic like the original freeze? I used to love sticking chords into mine.

Crustacean to station - David Bowie

Turbot Lover - Judas Priest

Interesting (and very fluid) use of microtones there - do you play much Indian classical music?

You’re kinda new in these parts, aincha? 😄

Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band

Big bottoms - Spinal Täp

Eva Long - Foo Fighters

shave 'em dry - Lucille Bogan

Heart shaped box - Nirvana

So far this year I've finished 3 pedals - two of them started from scratch this year, one just re-boxed from last year. Things is, I didn't have to buy any components for them as I already had them in my shed. I still think I'm IN, but will defer to the judgement of the BC massive.