Graham

World Downfall is a brilliant record, a landmark grind album

I wasn't aware of this, I knew David Vincent had left MA, but didn't know he's started a rival project. As Dropzone says, I expect some of the older material will start to be filtered into the set over time, if I'd booked a Morbid Angel ticket and they played nothing off Altars Of Madness or Covenant I'd be pretty disappointed.

Triple header this weekend, a wedding Friday and pubs Saturday and Sunday Friday was a nice, pretty new, clearly purposefully built wedding venue - it was a barn conversion in the Sussex countryside. The room wasn't a great sound - high ceiling and hard surfaces and I couldn't hear myself as well as I'd have liked, I'm really looking forward to my IEM arriving so I can do my own monitor mixes. Still, seemed to go well, it was a good performance, but for some reason I wasn't really feeling it, for me it was an average night, but the guest all seemed happy so fine there. Saturday was one of our favourite pubs, we usually get a very good reaction, first set was okay, not amazing, second set much better, had a great time by the end of the night Sunday was another pub, a new venue for us and a bit odd to playing a Sunday. There was a small, but appreciative audience, so we just had fun and were a bit silly. Punters and bar staff loved it, turned into a very fun gig, we're back there for a beer festival in the summer and hopefully one or two more bookings before then. I am now shattered though, if we play three nights on the trot again I'll book the Monday off work to recover - like Murtaugh, I'm getting too old for this stuff

Cheers, I have succumbed to the impulse, just need to get a headphone amp now

Excellent, do I want the version with the mic? I assume not, but I'm new to this

For me: Jo Lally on Fugazi's Repeater Justin Chancellor on Tool's 10,000 Days Jeff Caxide on ISIS's Oceanic Caleb Schofield on Cave In's Antenna Brian Cook on Botch's We Are The Romans Steve Harris on Iron Maiden's Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son Geezer Butler on Black Sabbath's Paranoid

I've seen ZS10s recommended on here, are these they? https://m-uk.gearbest.com/earbud-headphones/pp_1707254.html?wid=1433363&currency=GBP&vip=14752948&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9p2Cl5r-3gIVT7vtCh3TJgNYEAQYASABEgLDFPD_BwE Because at that price they basically an impulse buy

Love the buffet at a wedding or party, when they've got outside caterers doing curry it tends to be particularly good

I wonder how the OP's trip went, considering it was nearly seven years ago

I never saw that, but it sounds like something he'd do

I didn't realise he was a fretless player - when I saw them, I thought it was a fretted, probably down to the aforementioned lines. Unfortunately, the sound on the stage they were playing sucked and I could barely hear the bass so I gave up fairly early on in their set, I did like the coordination they had though - all of them playing headless Kiesel guitars/bass, all on wireless into AxeFxes, and on wireless IEM - it made it look very coordinated. Unfortunately the sound guy still didn't mix it well.

At a pub in Crowborough, we had a punter bring in part of a tree and dance with that. He was the only person on the dancefloor.

I didn't know it was a Fernandes, I'd always assumed it was a Fender

Does Billy-Joe Armstrong still gig the green, sticker covered strat in Green Day? Fat Mike from NOFX seems to have been playing the same Danelectro for years, don't know if it's the same one though.

Last night was brilliant, our singer's been away for a few weeks so we were all looking forward to getting back to it. It was an office Christmas party in the function room of a pub, so a decent sized crowd who were up and dancing from the start We played great, the guys were commented on how much they liked my playing, the singer's new 15" tops and Behringer wireless mixer worked really well and the crowd were enthusiastic and very happy at the end of the night - can't ask for a lot more than that.

I've not liked the sound of any Dingwall I've played - very comfortable, extremely good build quality - but the tone has left me cold - just sounded cold and dull to my ears, I like a more "lively" tone Though I've never gigged one, so not played one in a full mix

Minor annecdote - I helped the bassist from Beyond Creation (I assume it was Dodon) jump the food queue at Damnation Festival last year as he didn't realise he was allowed as an artist. He seemed nice, said "man" a lot. I will check out some of those acts, like you, I'm just loving the tonality and playing style of fretless in metal.

I like a variety of music, there's not a lot I actively dislike but what I choose to listen to on a regular basis falls within a fairly narrow band. Sure I like jazz, hip-hop, soul, folk and plenty of other genres and do listen to them from time to time, but the vast majority of my listening falls within a fairly broad definition of metal. which, I think, is what the OP is getting at

If I could sound like this on a five string, played with fingers rather than a pick I'd be very happy

It doesn't sound like that's what's happening here

Funily enough I was googling something similar earlier, the Sire M7 fretless looked like a good shout https://www.andertons.co.uk/sire-version-2-fretless-marcus-miller-m7-alder-5-string-brown-sunburst

I'm trying to decide if I love that bass or hate it, I genuinely can't decide! 😁

Frank Turner - Million Dead were good, but he's really become a great songwriter since they split and he decided he didn't want to be in a band.