miles'tone

I suggest keep your pedals and buy a quality set of flats for your L2500. Change strings to suit whatever buzz is floating your boat. Would only take 5 mins out of your day, just make sure you buy a set of flats that more or less matches your rounds tension so it's a straight swap with no farting about. No regrets, and you're welcome! 🍻

I see what this is all about. It's about getting everyone to off load all their excess basses, thus saturating the BC marketplace and bringing prices crashing down so we have more choices for much cheaper. Well played sir, and thank you! 👏🍻

They certainly do when I make them.

How does it sound then? Can it do the traditional P/J thing well? It looks like it would be a monstrous funk machine too! I've got an incoming passive JBS but I'm wondering now if I should have held out for a Power JBS..

I moved back to rounds too. Loving Dunlop Superbright Steels on my P. Bloody excellent!

I'm not in a band now and I'm relishing the thought of having no musical commitments for 2020. I have made a Spotify playlist of songs I always wanted to learn and can't wait to work my way through them now that I have the time. I should be 'shed' loads better this time next year!

By ages I meant about 6 months mate. Once I'd healed it was fine, like it never happened and I could play again. You really have to be very conscious not to use that hand though which is hard at first as you instinctively do. I put myself back to square one on one occasion by doing that. I wish you a speedy recovery, as in less haste more speed. 😉

I had it. It took many months of resting it, wearing a splinted wrist support for the first few weeks. No surgery required thankfully but I couldn't play bass for ages though.

Lovely bass!

That just made me 'LOL' and scare the shoot out of everyone on a very quiet train! 😂😂

I was just thinking yesterday that maybe an upside to the current state of our country and the tough times no doubt ahead, will hopefully be that we'll get some great new meaningful bands arising from the debris.

I love playing along to The Free Design 😊

Yes I only heard this a couple of years ago! Always did wonder what happened to it after seeing them writing it on Funky Monks. I can understand why it wasn't on BSSM as it sounds more like a Mother's Milk track to me. Pretty darn classic all the same!

Rules schmules. Choonz iz choonz n'at init.. Was it SA that John was heavily into Brandy? Not the alcoholic beverage by the way. Or was it By The Way? If you catch my drift..

😂 No by me I meant! Nos da brawd.

Cheers for that! Funny you didn't mention the only one that I can remember liking 😂 Nice one for Fortune Faded too, I'd forgotten about that song. They did a great live version of that when I saw them in Cardiff. 2004 I think it was.. A Spotify playlist needs to be constructed methinks. 👍

Just following on from the Frusciante Rejoins RHCP thread but thought my question for the BC Chili heads would be better off in a separate thread. It's kinda surprised me how many people have said they really liked Stadium Arcadium. I bought it at the time, listened through a couple of times and never felt compelled to go back. I think Ready Made stood out though. Most people agree it's way too long with filler though and "if it was half as long it would have been one of their best" Soo, if you could cut half the album away what tracks would you keep? I wonder if people would mostly agree or would it be a different edit for everyone?

Yes he played on most of the Amputechture album. You seen this? Flea, John and Omar from The Mars Volta giving it some. Flea's stamina here is quite astonishing considering how hard he plays!

Yep, for a ton used nothing would beat a Yammy RBX170. Saw one go for 67 quid on ebay last week actually.

I remember watching this when it was first aired! First time I'd heard of them and so began a lifelong love affair.

I think Josh has done an amazing job with the Chilis, especially considering he thinks of himself as a drummer first. I love The Getaway and thought at the time they had indeed gotten away with it at last (losing John). I also think Josh's vocals complement Anthony's voice better than John's did. Live, the Flea/John improv magic was definitely conspicuous by it's absence so looking forward to their telepathic connection again. I'm really excited about John's return. Mega excited! I just hope Josh is ok and has been treated fairly in this as he was, to me, a bona fide Chili Pepper, way more than just another stand in. Without Josh I doubt there would even be a group for John to come back to.

Well done for not doing the gig. I certainly wouldn't want that weighing on my mind over Christmas and New year. You will find another, better, gig soon I'm sure. Good luck!

Davie bought a set of BEAD Rotos off me to send to his friend overseas. Great chat to and fro on PMs again. Deal with confidence as Davie is a good guy and a credit to Basschat.

I sold the above tuners to Dom, great transaction and again lovely bloke on the coms. Thanks mate!