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I wish I'd spent as much time working on real basses as I have on my air technique.

Out of phase ? That is weird - is it possible someone's been in there already and made a bit of a botch of a repair ?

Looks like you're getting somewhere, that's good news.

That is frustrating, but I think it's something you just have to deal with at the time and then have words later. I know for fact that you'll still be the coolest cat on stage, revel in your dudeshippery and rise above

The British Library has a single copy, shelfmark YM.1989.b.454. If I remember my shelfmarks correctly it should be available via Inter-Library Loan from Boston Spa.

May I present 'Monkey Bisodol' by me and my mate John, a spirited examination of the dangers of off-species pharmaceutical use. Rough and ready, much like the artistes involved. Enjoy

Lovely. I tell you what I'd do - I'd get a triple-ply BWB scratchplate. I know, it's not all back anymore, but I replaced the all-black scratchplate on my Onyx Sterling and it looks more black with the accent.

Good point, doesn't sound like the best start does it ? At least we were both lying, I can't imagine spending 26 years with an REM fan !

Fitted the Denegerates yesterday evening and Wow ! The bass has character now, as opposed to the rather mid-heavy bland sound of the EMG-HZs. Definitely more of a single-coil feel, which is what I was after, so Mike was spot on with the recommendation. Well chuffed

When we first met, keen to impress each other in the first flush of love, Mrs. Pook and I agreed we both liked REM. We don't - nether of us does, never have. Sweet tho, isn't it ? We were probably hammered, but still...

Essex heft. I hope so anyway, I just bought a TE head

Naaaayce !

Well done to him, bet he put in some serious hard work. Like the tune too. EDIT: 'but' should have been 'bet'.

I'm just checking the orientation of the pickups with Mike at Gemini, I'll report back as soon as they're in. Which pickups are you going for ?

Nitrous balloon ? Everyone else will sound like a chipmunk

Feeling rather uninspired by the EMG-HZs in my recently-acquired Spector I decided to have a word with Mike at Gemini Pickups to see if he had anything that might suit. I've bought pickups a few times from him - a rather nice Jazz set and a pair of guitar mini-humbuckers that I put in a guitar for a friend - always helpful and amazing pickups. So, here they are, took about two weeks from ordering to them arriving. I'm really looking forward to fitting them this afternoon. http://www.geminipickups.co.uk/bass_85.html

Yes, I was a bit uninspired by the red, but the more I look at it, the more I dig it.

This is why I've got some new pickups on the way for my NS2000. Prepare for a new Pickup Day thread soon !

Last year, never really having listened to any Rush before, I decided to explore their back catalogue and spent quite a while listening to all their albums, and there's only two albums I go back and listen to again - Moving Pictures and Permanent Waves.

Green Fingers - Siouxsie and the Banshees and...

Shame about the hiccups, but as has been said above - you played a blinder of a set at the end. Good going ! It's not the problems, it's how you deal with them (with apologies for sounding like a chapter in a self-help book )

Yes, I run Ad-Block*...I did try whitelisting/unblocking BC and Soundcloud, but I guess my TinFoilHat is thicker than I thought I have a version of Waterfox I that's running 'open', so to speak....I'll give it a go over there. It does make me feel a bit...grimy tho. (*...and Ghostery and Disconnect)

Well, I cant get the darned thing to work. I've been fiddling with my browser settings like a GCE Geography Teacher with a VCR, but to no avail.

Put the cab on the amp. I think that's safe...

Wasting money on guitars ? I'm sorry, I understand each word, but when you put them together like that...you've lost me.