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I'm not a metal fan, it all seems a bit fake to me, lots of dressing up and posing. And the music is usually formulaic and frankly a bit weak. For "heavy" music, by which I mean challenging and sometimes even disturbing, I'd listen to Suicide, the Birthday Party (particularly the Junkyard album) and something like Scott Walker's soundtrack to Childhood Of A Leader - that's very chilling . I appreciate I'm probably in a minority here .

Sold my TSK S212 to Cameron. Highly recommended bass chatter. He promised to give me his WB-100 when he's bored with it (that's how I heard it anyway!!). Thanks Cameron, Martin

Alain kindly responded to my wanted add for a One Ten yesterday, and today we met up in sunny Roundhay Park to do the deal. Great guy, easy transaction, Thanks, Martin

The Dirtbombs.

Great story, what a nice journey into retirement and beyond .

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I bought Simon's One Ten. It arrived mint, as described, brilliantly packaged and in good time. No problems at all, thanks for the deal.

I take a fretted and a fretless, and tend to play one set on one, and the second set on the other. Mix them round too. I've never had a string break or any other issue that needed a second bass. Mike Watt does (in normal times) a couple of hundred gigs a year and as far as I know only takes one bass out. I guess in an emergency a support band might sort him out, but he seems to cope.

Love Billy's voice, but I recently discovered the Divine Comedy have recorded a version of Party Fear Two and without the distraction of the vocals (and, to be fair, production) of the original, the quality of the song really comes to the fore. Worth checking out.

Good luck Darryl. Great performance in that video, thanks for sharing .

I have basses and guitars to hand in the room where I'm working so pick on up 5 or 6 times a day for 5-10 minutes. So more than usual. I've put the ashtrays on one of my basses and have been completely adjusting my right hand style to suit. I used to anchor my thumb on the neck pickup, but now I'm resting my thumb across the strings, almost jamerson style, and resting fingers 3 and 4 on the astray. Seems to be working well, feels less tiring and a little faster.

Yeah,last time I asked the Zilla equivalent was around £185, and you can choose colours.

Big Radio 6 fan. Marc Riley and Cerys Matthews in particular, but no shows that I listen to are awful.

This thread has made me wonder if anyone has heard from @Bluewine in a while. Hope he's ok.

Swans, Dinosaur Jr, Fog (I think they were called - J Mascis again). Bob Mould at the Cockpit was pretty loud. A lot of gigs at the Cockpit were very poorly mixed

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