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Yes, those three bands would be infinitely better than The Kings of Ezraphonics. 👍

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome on stage, The Kings of Ezraphonics.

Semi Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind

Totally, the drumsticks I got weren't from a concert but were given to me as a thank you by the drummer for a job. His signature was printed on them by Vic Firth and I suspect he doesn't even use them when gigging. I gave them to our drummer but he didn't like them.

Lily The Pink - The Scaffold

No plectrums, only drumsticks I'm afraid.

Don't Speak - No Doubt

When is a build not a build? If I were to build a house using concrete pumped in from a lorry for the footings, pre made blocks for the walls, windows, doors, roof trusses made in a factory, slates for the roof quarried and cut elsewhere, paint bought from a shop, etc, etc, would it be a self build or just an assembly of pre made parts? I'd say you've built your own house. The same is surely true of a bass. You can go into a shop a buy one off the wall (or other outlets), but if you sit down, create a plan, order all the individual parts to create a bass of you own spec and then put all those parts together, I'd say you've built yourself a bass. I had a project moved into the 'Build Diaries' section by a moderator as it was getting too in depth for the 'Bass Guitars' section. I'm only bringing an old bass back to life, and didn't consider it a build as such to start with. But as the thread got more in depth the 'Build Diaries' was the only suitable section for it, but apart from a few aspects I'm only really stripping and reassembling parts. Also people's different levels of ability will govern what would constitute a build to them. For someone who isn't a hands on type of person, buying a kit and building and finishing that kit so that they have a playable instrument is a huge undertaking, and to be applauded. To one of the scratch builders on here that same kit might seem like the most mundane of jobs. They are both building though.

Being Boiled - Human League

Intergalactic - Beastie Boys

Camouflage - Stan Ridgway

An epoxied fingerboard compared to bare wood definitely changes your sound as the string is physically vibrating against it, which is what creates the fretless 'mwah' sound. The harder the fingerboard surface, the more pronounced the effect. The 'tonewood' debate is a completely different thing as bodies and necks (not fingerboards) aren't in direct contact with the strings.

Any 'jazz' mags to browse through while you're having a snack?

I adore The Cure and can forgive them of most things but it wasn't great was it. A shame because I really enjoyed the Glastonbury set a couple of years ago. I almost bought tickets for this Hyde Park one and although I'd have enjoyed it I'm kind of glad I didn't.

That's because they had Liz Taylor depping and she's not quite up to speed yet. 😉

I saw COC support Megadeth on that tour and they blew megadeth away. Another one at that time was Downset supporting Pantera, Downset were brilliant. The only support I've actually gone to see specifically over the main act was Pride and Glory (Zakk Wylde's band) supporting Whitesnake. Only found out once there that P&G had pulled out. About fifteen minutes into Whitesnake's set they started the solo's. About a three minute guitar solo, then bass, by the middle of the drum solo we'd walked. The only concert I've ever left early.

Are you sharing that popcorn, or are you going to discriminate against everyone who isn't you? 😁

Yeah that would work perfectly 😄

That body looks lovely. I think walnut is possibly my favourite wood, not overly fancy, just a lovely colour and grain, kind of silky looking.

Happy - Neds Atomic Dustbin

It's got to be worth swapping them if you play them both just for your own entertainment. I'm always doing this in one of my bands to see how far off song I can go but it still work. My favourite is playing the lead synth riff of 'Push It' by Salt'n'Pepa in the chorus of 'Ever Fallen In Love' by The Buzzcocks, it actually fit really well and is fun when people noticed. Oh yeah it's on doublebass too. 😄

The thing with Hysteria is that once you've got it committed to muscle memory it just bounces quite nicely. I used to do it in a previous band and it always followed 'No One Knows' by Queen's Of The Stone Age. No One Knows isn't difficult but has some odd timing/phrasing that I was always relieved to get out of the way, I'd get to the end, breathe a sigh of relief, glance at the setlist and go "oh sh!t, Hysteria". 🙄😁 Another tale if I may. The guitarist and singer in the Mod band I'm in have always been in bands together and in a previous incarnation had Muse on as a support band, a tale the guitarist likes to tell every now and again, to which I always reply, "Yeah whatever happened to them?" Whilst sarcastically glancing around whatever dingy venue we're in.

That comes across a little aggressive but hey ho. Also, I don't think discrimination has to be a legal term, but maybe you're taking this far more seriously than me. As @silverfoxnik@silverfoxnik rightly points out it was me that made the comment about somebody possibly claiming discrimination, and as is usual with most things in life, it's not a black and white situation. I applaud the notion of setting up a business to give jobs to out of work musicians, but I can also see that you lived just around the corner, were out of work and had the perfect credentials and skills for the job, but were turned down because you weren't a musician you would feel discriminated against, it doesn't have to be proved in a court of law for it to be so. If I applied for a job I was the perfect candidate for but was refused because I'm not an actor I'd feel a bit miffed. That said I wish them all the best and hope it works out.

The unbrandedness of 70s Japanese fakers means nothing really. I have an Aria RB 750, but the trussrod cover is missing so it's now just a Matsumoku made faker. If they'd screwed something else on in the factory then it would be something else. The factory is more important than the brand, well not important but you know what I mean.

Venus in Furs - Velvets and Nico