Graham

I started thinking about this after my mother's funeral last year and made a Spotify playlist of the three songs I'd want so my wife could find it easily should it be necessary

Arriving: Cave In - Youth Overided (live from Roadburn)

The only thing that makes this explicitly live is the applause at the end and in all likelihood it will have been faded out by then. This was the opening song of an acoustic set the band played in tribute to their late bassist and is a beautiful arrangement of a brilliant song.

https://youtu.be/ATO-9zPeJ5w

Reflecting: We Lost The Sea - A Gallant Gentleman

I thought something instrumental would work well here, so immediately went for post-rock. This is from the album Departure Songs, written after the band's singer committed suicide and they decided to continue without a vocalist. All the songs on the record are about true failed journeys, this one about Lawrence Oates the explorer who walked out into the freezing Arctic to give his companions a better chance of survival

Departing: Mutoid Man - Bandages

Cave In are my favourite band, so more Steve Brodsky is appropriate. This is a very emotional song and quite appropriate I think

https://youtu.be/Hme25THmo9o

I don't go to arena/stadium shows for pretty much this reason, but how different is it being sat behind the stage watching a screen to bring at the back of an arena, watching a screen and some tiny people in the distance? 

Napalm Death had different line-ups for each side of their debut album, which changed for second album and then again for the third. Was pretty stable after that

23 hours ago, Rich said:

Generally I'm not a massive fan of pointy basses, but there's something about the Explorer shape that I really like. I would love an Aria ZZB. 

 

There was a time when Mutoid Man were using matching Aria guitars and basses with Nick playing one of those, it looked great

https://youtu.be/T5PXu34mYGA

We drop the key 3 semitones down to C, so it's possible it doesn't sound quite right to the audience maybe?

Or perhaps we're just not playing it very well 😁

Runaway Baby by Bruno Mars never goes down as well as I think it should

Russian Circles earlier, Cult Of Luna now

I've been thinking all day and can only think of a handful bassists in metal bands who play pointy instruments

There's Derek Boyer of Suffocation who used to play a BC Rich Warlock and now has this headless, multiscale Devil's Choice bass. Likes to play it down by his ankle, I've always thought it looked uncomfortable

Then there's Jeff Barrett of Blood Incantation who has a (I think fretless) BC Rich Mockingbird

Last one I could think of was Jeff Walker of Carcass who plays the vaguely pointy Fernando's Triturador

There will be others of course, but I've really struggled to think of many pointy bass equipped bands.

I reckon within metal you still get a fairly standard distribution of brands

To update with a couple of questions I've had on PM, it's one of the Indonesian made Skylines and having weighed it this morning it comes in around 4.2Kg

Thinking back to the basses I saw at last year's Damnation Festival

Converge - Fender Precision

At The Gates - Warwick (Corvette I think)

Godflesh - Fender Jazz

Pig Destroyer - ESP/Ltd 5 string

Insanity Alert - Fender jazz (House bass)

Full Of Hell - A Fender I think

Irist - Fender Jazz

We Lost The Sea - Sadowsky jazz 5, also uses a Fender P5

Misery Index - Warwick

Bell Witch - Seven string Ibanez

Ithaca - Fender Precision

Pupil Slicer - 4 and 5 Stingrays, also uses a Modulus Flea

Mastiff - Warwick Thumb

So, mostly Fenders with some Warwicks and a smattering of others

On 17/07/2023 at 20:26, Killerfridge said:

Oh man these are great basses, glwts

Thanks, it really is a very good bass - I just need something else more in this climate

Edit: price reduced to £850

This bass has done me very well for a number of years and I don't especially want to part with it, but:

A) I'm loving my new Stingray

B) what I really need is a private ADHD assessment for my youngest child

It's a really good passive five string jazz, pickups are in the 70s position, the 35" scale gives an excellent low B and the neck is extremely comfortable

For me, this has the best bridge pickup I've come across on a jazz bass - articulate and clear without being thin and nasally

It's not too heavy either, I used it for 2 hour plus gigs without too much trouble, the Stingray is noticeably heavier. It comes in around 4.2Kg

No trades for obvious reasons collection/meet up in the Hailsham/Eastbourne or Crowborough areas of Sussex preferrred, but can look into shipping options if necessary. Can deliver within 50 miles of BN27 for petrol cost

Let me know if you want photos from any other angles

Cheers 😀

I'd like to change the pickup in my Ray25 to a Nordstrand MM5.2, but I'm a little unclear which model I need.

They have one with "ears" and one without, I think I need the one with ears, but it's difficult to be sure

I have tried emailing Nordstrand, but they've not responded, so Basschat, do I have ears?

Two this weekend, both pubs not too far away

Friday was The King's Head in Seaford, I quite like it there nice folk if a bit quiet as it was so hot and most were in the garden

Saturday was The Garden Bar in Eastbourne; I'd had a very challenging day with our autistic/ADHD children to the point of unsuccessfully trying to find a dep, but by some stroke of luck managed to get the youngest settled for bed before going out with just enough time unload, set-up and start playing. 

I was running almost entirely on adrenaline so gave a very energetic, cathartic performance - really needed it and it went down very well.

So......called BD about 15:00, turns out the pickup is not actually in stock so they've refunded.

Won't order from them without calling and checking first in future, which doesn't really meet expectations for a web retailer in 2023

2 minutes ago, snorkie635 said:

Not always. I usually telephone them to check all is as it should be.

Thanks, if I've not had anything by lunchtime I'll give them a call

Slight thread derailment, but when ordering online do Bass Direct send you a confirmation email?

I ordered a pickup from them outside of office hours last night and got a PayPal receipt, but haven't had anything from Bass Direct themselves yet.

Hoping to see a shipment confirmation email or something later on today, but they've been open a couple of hours and haven't had anything yet.

6 hours ago, How1 said:

I love a lot of 90s stuff. I honestly don’t know what mathcore is though 🤓

 A sub-genre of hardcore punk, with a focus on complex time signatures; for example Botch, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Coalesce, The Chariot 😀

92-02

Grunge, mathcore, post-hardcore, 90s Death metal, second wave black metal

Also, I was born in 1985 so the 90s were very formative to my music tastes

Got a few lined up

June - Suffocation

August - Holy Fawn & The Callous Daoboys

September - Mutoid Man

October - Better Lovers

October - Beyond The Redshift

November - Damnation Festival

There's more I'd like to book (Terror, Frozen Soul, Obituary) but to be honest I can only do so many

When I read the thread title, I immediately added "4:30" in my head 😁

This is what I listened to last week

Napalm Death, Sepultura, Rolo Tomassi, Wormrot, The Offspring, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Cave In, Ingested, Origin, Blood Ceremony, Battle Of Mice, John Frum, Pig Destroyer, Nirvana, Fukpig, Made Out Of Babies Nightmarer, Hell Is For Heroes, Sól Án Varma, The Eating Cave, Alice In Chains, Nine Inch Nails, 200 Stab Wounds, Sepultura, Electric Wizard, Zozobra

I'd been thinking about this recently as it was doing the rounds on Twitter

Flea (RHCP/Mars Volta)

Bernie Edwards (Chic)

Jeff Caxide (ISIS)

Caleb Scofield (Cave In/Old Man Gloom)

Shane Embury (Napalm Death)

Alex Webster (Cannibal Corpse 

/Conquering Dystopia)

Martin Mendez (Opeth/White Stones)

James Leach (SikTh)

Liam Wilson (The Dillinger Escape Plan/Azusa/John Frum)

Sean Malone (Cynic)

Guitarist is on his way out, sounds like you are too

At this point, just ask yourself if you want to one final gig with a band that's about to collapse