Graham

I mostly listen to music that is under the extreme metal umbrella (post-hardcore, mathcore, grindcore, black metal, post-metal, metal-core, death metal, sludge, doom), so pretty heavy I'd say. For example the last five albums I bought were by Terrorizer, Godflesh, Neurosis, Din Of Celestial Birds and Greg Puciato. I'm not sure if today is a Bandcamp Friday or not, but I'm planning on buying albums by Cave In, Botch and The Armed

Withered Fist - This Is My Mountain https://witheredfist.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-my-mountain They're a Basschatter's band, but I forget who it is 😀

Must be a different Graham old chap, that wasn't me 😀 Trust me, you don't want me setting up your bass😆

Some classic grind: Terrorizer - World Downfall

I think short scale and lightweight gear, though not my taste are going to continue to be popular, particularly given the "white men of a certain age" demographic of Basschat

You might have to switch to drums, recruiting a bassist and guitarist would probably be easier then

Today has been VOLA - Witness Electric Wizard - Time To Die Electric Wizard - Wizard Bloody Wizard I'd imagine a few folk around here might like the new VOLA record, it was like a djent Porcupine Tree, @odysseus I think you'd enjoy it https://open.spotify.com/album/30RmzbD5a5hqRPgyzBq7La?si=UMoebSY9RHSAdfyG-kPETA&utm_source=copy-link

I've very recently started getting into Nine Inch Nails, I should have listened to them years ago. I've never really listened to Radiohead, based on the bands they've influenced I really should, but never felt the need.

There was a EBS HD360 Special Edition for sale with 2x Proline 2x10s, I wasn't in a position to buy and the head went. Given the rarity of those special editions, that still haunts me.

Rolo Tomassi are cracking

I'd describe my musical preferences as narrow, but deep - where I'm heavily focused around various sub-genres of metal. I like jazz, pop, hip-hop and folk as well and will go through periods of listening to them quite a bit, but those drop away in a week or so. I also have a tendency to get really into a specific metal sub-genres for a year or two at a time, it was doom, then I switched to black metal, these days it's post-hardcore/mathcore

I watched Greg Puciato's live set - F*ck Content last night and it was brilliant, so I've bought the album version as well so now got that going

Truth

Meshuggah - never got on with them in the past, find I quite enjoy them now

Bass Centre basses lool like great value instruments, but I'd never buy one with that deeply unattractive and cheap looking Bass Centre logo on the heqdstock. At least they've sorted that out with this and the Guy Pratt model

Metallica - Hardwired....To Self Destruct Not really listened to this since it was released, it's better than I remember, but I don't get why they made a double album. There was enough material for a really good 30-40 minute record, but for some bizzare reason decided to pad it out with another 50 minutes of bland filler.

Flatwound strings

I remember seeing a 55-01 in a cream/white finish

Thanks for that, I'm a big fan of SikTh and James' playing

On a tangent, I was looking into SikTh's tunings recently as I was learning a couple of their songs and was surprised to see that G#-G#-C#-G# tuning. I've not come across a tuning where the bottom strings are tuned to the same note before. Anyone used this or know of the benefits? My first assumption was the G#s were an octave apart, but then the gauge and/or tension difference between those strings would be huge

Given the ages of the rest of the band, I wonder if there's some assumptions being made about disposable income and willingness to spend it on instruments

That's not a big pool to pull from