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A little off topic so I apologise, but what's the idea with the extended fingerboard under the E string? Is it meant as a thumbrest or just design? I'm curious

I've snapped two A strings in the last 18 months (both D'Addario Half Rounds). The last one before that was twenty years ago. I do have a particularly aggressive style and 18 months ago I joined a Mod band, playing a lot of The Who and The Jam isn't helping. I've had to make a conscious effect to reign it in but playing to decent sized, energetic crowds I kind of get carried away

No one ever seems to mention the Fender 9120 black tapewound. I have them on my fretted and fretless acoustics, fretless P and did have them on my Bex4 but swapped that for some half rounds as I like the higher tension. The Fender tapes really aren't muddy at all, quite bright like average rounds but with a really nice fundamental to them.

Quiet boys, I've got a bite! It was a joke, hence the smiley. I'm a big fan of Yamaha, my number two bass is my Bex4, absolutely amazing bass for very little money, and if I sold all my basses and had to choose one bass for life it would be a 2024x in vintage white.

Bollocks to all the Ibanez nonsense, buy a Yamaha instead, they're basically the same thing

These are a couple of ariel shots of Glastonbury Blue, definitely not good if you don't like crowds. The main 'Pyramid' stage. And yes, mega expensive compared to your Summerfest. Your ticket price wouldn't cover the booking fee for Glasto, last years was around the £240 mark (about 335 USD)

It's amazing how wrong this sentence becomes just by adding the word 'on' into it

That's pronounced 'Feen darr'

On the subject of the spelling of a word leading to the mispronounciation of the word. Whilst at primary school, a customary punishment handed out by us kids was a 'Chinese Burn'. Roll on ten years. Upon entering a pub for the first time, imagine my panic and anticipation in equal measures when my port drinking friend told me to go and ask the leggy barmaid for a couple of Cockburns.

I've seen all the 'big four' live at various points and Slayer live are indeed something to behold. Monstrous power

You're entitled to your opinion, but that's all it is

It was tongue firmly in cheek. Although I feel great hardship has always given rise to the best music, just one of those unfortunate things.

Hopefully a post-brexit, dying on its derrière Britain will spawn a generation of angry kids with something to say again.

Our youth are far too clued up on these matters and therefore their music is very straightlaced and safe. Music is so much better when it's written by a drug fuelled, chaotic anarchist with a chip on his or her shoulder.

An honourable mention for 'Twigman', although I think this was before his time with the band.

A couple of bass-centric beauts utilising the Fairlight CMI.

The thing I love about the 80's is the variety and changes the music scene went through, it started out with the last throws of punk and disco, then new wave, post punk, new romantics, electronic, goth, alternative, rap, hip hop, acid house, hair and glam metal and everything else in between, all in a decade, amazing. Here are some of my alternative 80's favs.

The year was 1982, I was 9, I had been given (second hand) a 70's Bontempi Hit Organ and Yazoo's 'Don't Go' was riding high in the charts. I fired up the Bontempi, which roared into life with its overbearing fan noise, and I learnt how to play the opening riff of above song. I was the coolest person ever While not the best 80's song, this brings back fond memories. Back then everything Vince Clarke did was magic to me, I'd never heard these sounds before.

I once bought a 1967 Volvo 123GT from a chap in North Devon. Whilst on the phone to him asking his location (pre mobile phone and Internet days) he told me, "A small village called Woolsery", he pronounced it 'Woolsree'. No matter how much I studied the map I couldn't find 'Woolsery'. I said, "All I can see in that area is a place called Woolfardisworthy". "That's it" he said, "Woolsree". Turns out 'Woolfardisworthy' is pronounced 'Woolsree', who knew? Even the signposts up there have Woolfardisworthy, with Woolsery bracketed underneath on them.

I'm still going with the Spanish pronunciation, after all it was Salvador Ibanez that started the company in 1870. From what I've read Hoshino Gakki imported Spanish guitars from Salvador Ibanez and sold them under that name, when the Ibanez company was sold to another company (not Gakki) Hoshino Gakki started making his own guitars using the Salvador Ibanez name, later just Ibanez. So it has never been a Japanese name.

A pub I was having a meal in had a board uo with who was playing there next Friday, Saturday, etc. One of the bands were called 'The Wives Aren't Happy', I had a little chuckle at that one.

Being, originally, a Spanish company I'd say so. I quite like the Spanish pronunciation.

"That's a lovely rack tom." "Agreed, but don't call me Tom."

We played Teignmouth Scooter Rally last Friday. Great night with a good sized stage. I'm hoping for some video footage or pictures from later in set when the dance floor was packed to surface.