Graham

Great to see you last night, the sound was quite bottom heavy but sounded good out front; I particularly like the picked sound - was quite gutsy Quick video of your new bass in action

Always happy to hear more Julie Christmas

It's.....fine Like most of their output in the last 20 years it's an 80+ minute album that should have been a 25 minute EP There's some good riffs and ideas which get swallowed into the overly long song structures If it had been someone other than Metallica I'd have probably turned it off after the second song, doubt I'll listen to it again. Production's good though, at least you can hear the bass

Me too, not overly impressed so far.....which is at least what I was expecting

I'm not sure I'd celebrate anything with Burzum

Oh, that's really cool

Picked up my first Stingray yesterday, a Ray25CA in a lovely blue finish The previous owner, a nice chap also called Graham, had made a couple of mods - it has a Retrovibe Stinger pre-amp and a series/parallel switch. He'd also replaced the pick-guard with this black anodised one Overall, very happy with it, just a shame my next gig isn't until the end of May

In ours the singer takes a bigger cut, but he: Books every gig and liases with the client/venue Owns, sets up and runs the PA and lights Arrives earlier to set up the PA, while I normally stay to help break it down, I could in principal leave ten minutes after the last note is played Is the only member who plays every gig, so finds deps for the rest of us Writes and supplies the set list I'm more than happy for him to take a bigger cut, so I don't have to deal with any of the above

Shout out to @Merton for stepping into the breach for me last night, my mother died Friday night and I wasn't in a position to play a gig. The video I saw looked great, apart from Matt getting the lyrics wrong of course 😁

Good luck we got back from holiday yesterday, so thought the kids would probably benefit from me not being out tonight.

Watching a demo made me think the M900 v3 will essentially be this, with a power amp bolted on and a separate footswitch

I finally got round to listening to the full album, and it's fine. A couple of decent songs, a bit boring in the middle, could do without the military fetishism, but overall pretty inoffensive. I might listen to it again, but it's not particularly likely

I love that Lulu exists, because I swear Lou Reed trolled Metallica into making it, convincing them it was a work of profound art, laughing his derrière off the whole way. I will however, never subject myself to listening to it a second time.

The new Fallujah record that came out yesterday, some very tasty bass playing on this tech/death/prog album @odysseus you might like this, not sure how you feel about heavy vocals though? https://open.spotify.com/track/0W5LVt1fLq1SdCrmj9S7EU?si=Ft2QX1XORt2qJCkBw6uQ8w&utm_source=copy-link

It's been a while since I looked at a bass and immediately wanted it, that's stunning! And you say there's a blue one as well?

Was that a young(ish) lad who wanted to talk your ear off about Darkglass?

Thanks, glad it went well 😀 It's always a fun venue there and good there was a decent view 😄

Nine Inch Nails I think when I was younger I was like "urgh, synths" but finally gave The Downward Spiral a go a couple of years ago and was astonished at how good it is I reckon if I'd heard them about the age of 20 they'd have become my favourite band.

Akercocke in September Cave In in October Damnation Festival in November Rolo Tomassi in February

Echoing a couple of other people, the carpet covering on my EBS cabs, I'm not a fan in general as they seem to degrade quicker than other covering options, and even more so as a cat owner. My main bass is an ash Lakland in natural finish, not a fan of natural finishes on light coloured woods, but I like everything else about it so live with it

It is a very fun band, thanks for covering, I'm having to play fewer at the moment due to family commitments, so good to know there's good players filling in 😀

Oh, you were depping for me on Friday night it's less that Matt changes the song structures around, and more he's not always sure what they should be 😁

Nicholas Cage Fighter https://open.spotify.com/album/7GzN1P1QFtMNIp3p6ZQEFe?si=xU5P7xE8RwGIgwR28kel2g&utm_source=copy-link Put it on because of the name, but actually very good metallic hardcore

So there's another new track out, Nightcrawlers https://open.spotify.com/album/7E23y6lreAy6VWsxTnFx4s?si=IpLKtW75Q0a8upAB0DOw4A&utm_source=copy-link This one seems like a waste of Ice T, and similarly how Carcass can sound like Jeff Walker reading from a medical text book, this sounds like Mega-Dave just reading from Janes Armaments; the military fetishism is a bit hard going