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I would love to be able to play sax. Back in the 80s everyone seemed to include a sax part 'middle eight' by Michael Brecker. Remember the then ground-breaking video Candy by Cameo using multi layering? That sax solo by Michael Brecker and the way he played the song out was nice. 

Maybe I'll have a poke around cash converters?

Perhaps he sees his designs as thought provoking, like a South bank art installation. He expects people to be shocked? Maybe he accepts the negative comments as being people who don't understand his unique design flair and engineering solutuons?

But, at some point he needs to discuss his output, with experts?

23 hours ago, nige1968 said:

Which seems to have started life as a 12-string

Why is he obsessed with players with big hands? No wonder SRV never got anywhere?

14 minutes ago, Jus Lukin said:

It is all rather confusing and troubling, isn't it?

I understand that some people find his quirky style interesting, but i've not found a muso who feels he has saved/improved an instrument with his unique approach?

49 minutes ago, Burns-bass said:

This is terribly sad. I've never seen what this guy does, but the briefest glimpse makes my heart sink. I'm particularly struck by the headstock 'decal' that's done with a bloody Bic biro. It's for the unsuspecting parents and relatives or the new guitarist who is conned by this rubbish. I once got scammed on a vintage Fender when I was first starting out and I'm still a little bitter about it (I didn't lose money, some strong words sorted it out).

Yes, he is very good at making his work sound justified in his listing. In fact he is very good at writing his listings? I would imagine all that psuedo tech talk could sound impressive to some people. Feedback 99.8%?

3 hours ago, prowla said:

Fantastic bodgework there!

Emperor's clothes

On 08/09/2019 at 08:33, prowla said:

There's a rack unit on ebay, priced at £42.99, with a "Make Offer" button.

So I clicked the button and offered £40.

The seller declined the offer.

Huh - why put an "Offer" option there if you're not going to budge on price?

Agreed. The absolute worse for this are the Chinese sellers. If they are selling at £19.95 and you offer £19.90 they'll decline!

You guys have missed a treat, check out the sellers 'rock' clothing range?

14 hours ago, DJpullchord said:

The public gets what the public wants.

 "But I want nothing this society's got!"😃

All the strings look short! Barely one turn on the post?

2 hours ago, mikel said:

Did we all not do the I hate later with Jools thing to death about 6months ago? Just re read it and save us all a load of grief. Please.

It's a BC hardy perennial!

28 minutes ago, ahpook said:

You could make your own show up.

Go onto youtube and pick a video from an ancient bluesman, a 'challenging' modern-ish band, somebody who won a BBC jazz award three years ago and a burke playing spoons in an ethnic hat.

OK ? Now flick between them and a vid of Joolz on boogie woogie piano, over and over again. Play Joooolz at the same time as one of the vids....it won't fit, but that never stops Joooooooolz.

Turn the bass waaay down and you'll not notice the difference.

Not that I watch it of course, it's shiite.

You forget the latest 'grime' person to appeal to the urban yoof

On 07/08/2019 at 10:14, NikNik said:

Even the baseplate has been hacked. Is that Bostik under there??

IBTL

Looks like he's tried to re-profile the bottom of the bridge to compensate for the guitar 'bellying up'. But instead filled the void with glue. Plus a couple of B&Q allen head bolts to make damn sure!

2 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

Not sure if this any help , but when I had my 62 RI set up the luthier told me he couldn’t get the action really low because the last 2 frets were slightly high, he charged me £20 to level them , I wasn’t brave enough to try it myself 😁

I like to do as much work on my guitars as I can, but not sure if buying in the tools for fret dressing/crowning is financially viable?

I have discovered a high fret on my jazz. Up the 'dusty' end, which although I rarely visit there, I'd like to know all is well if I chose to. So my options are 'give it a tap', or a fret levelling. I'm guessing that many of us have experience of using a hammer, but has anyone levelled and re dressed/crowned their own frets?

16 hours ago, 4000 said:

Passable, yes. Pavarotti-esque, not really. 😉😂

Whilst I’m aware Jon’s voice is extremely polarising, I’m a bit surprised anyone can think Hugh is actually a better singer technically.

But to be fair to Hugh, the stranglers songs often require that sort of 'angry shouty yob voice' (JJ was good at that), rather than pavarotti

1 hour ago, 4000 said:

I love the Stranglers, but Hugh was hardly Pavarotti was he? 😂

I think he did a pretty good job on 'golden brown'?

The Stranglers never actually described themselves as punks and back in the day never denied it either. They do now though. But who cares about labels?

I like The Stranglers. JJ was one of my inspirations to play bass. Has anyone mentioned 'London Lady' yet.

8 minutes ago, 4000 said:

Re the non-fight, I reckon JJB would have had ‘em all on his own. 😉 

I agree, although usually guys like JJ with huge martial arts abilities are rarely 'bated' into fighting? But JJ enjoys it!

21 hours ago, nige1968 said:

Just to stray moderately back on topic ...

a) that Lemmy / stripper cameo has to be the weirdest sequence I've ever seen. Do you suppose the Frankies knew any of that was going to happen?

b) isn't that one of the Calm Down Scousers on drums?

A) It could have been 'a little bit' choreographed?

b)

On 15/07/2019 at 21:02, davepb24 said:

Possibly more in the remit of another thread but couldn't find it lol... guess who is the spotty oik in line for an autograph and a bonus point for the autographer (NEC car park 1987 ☺)

 

It's obviously Jean Claude Van damme

Jet explains about the 'punk' thing at @2:23.

On 09/05/2019 at 09:45, musicbassman said:

Bl***y clickbait, I hate it.

Aaaarrrgghhhh!!! – I RUINED my $300,000  1954 Precision with this one simple mistake!

 

How to play your best bass lines ever with this cheap kitchen gadget !!!

 

Top Ten bass mistakes that even the Pros make !!!

 

Unboxing my new 17 string bass ??  Whoops !!

 

Learn this one simple bass fingering pattern to make sure you get the chicks at every gig !!!!

I play my bass with my massive spanner!!   You won't believe this!! Watch what happens !!!

 

etc, etc.....  😨

You forgot the classic "why i hate my $300,000 1954 precision!"

Do what every other ebay bidder does when suffering buyers remorse and blame it on having your account 'hacked'?

1 hour ago, Geek99 said:

If no grime artist wants men over 45 listening - where does that leave Tim Westwood ?

Blimey, is he still around?