Misdee

Indeed. Or dysentery.

Very much so. These artists have experienced way too much angst to be able to hold a tune. Just try and appreciate the authenticity of their pain.

The heroin is probably less expensive than the cheese nowadays🙁. Especially if you factor in the price of cream crackers.

I used to see him pushing his trolley round my local supermarket. He used to wear shades and try not to be recognised, even though he wasn't very famous in those days.

The Libertines are looking (and sounding) a bit fat and middle-aged aren't they? They need to go to the gym or, probably more likely, get back on the gear.

These Cirrus basses sound really good, great design ect, but the 35 inch scale was a big mistake in my opinion.

Try and get Rod to unblock your toilet, you'll soon find out.

Complete twaddle😆. I love it ! Keep it up👍

Yes, I know exactly what I'm doing, I think... I'm a bit uncertain about what you think I'm doing, though, or why you think I should be pulled up on it. Anyhow, I've enjoyed some good Glasto today, and I hope everyone else has too. Like I said before, if the bands are good then fair enough, and if they're bad then even better. It would've been exciting if they had shown Kneecap live, but that's a bit too much to expect from the dullards currently running the BBC, who stand by their arcane principals until someone comes along and claims to be offended. And as we all know nowadays, offending someone is the worst thing to do.

I'm certainly not angry, I can't speak for anybody else. I think what she said is very funny, even if it wasn't meant to be. Probably because it wasn't meant to be.

Energetic? That's one way of putting it. I think the clue is in the name of the band! 😄

To be fair, there's something timeless about Neil Young. He still sounds just like he always has; shambolic. That's his great strength, though. Long may he continue.

Raye: "It's great to see so many genders out there!" What, you mean both of them? Yes it's amazing isn't it. Thank goodness she isn't stupid.

I thought she was terrific on Later. For me, she's got real star quality. Like we've both said, there's a huge divergence of opinion on what's good and what's not. Nothing wrong with that.

Biff Byford!

It just shows how tastes can differ because I thought English Teacher were very dull. Contemporary alternative rock by numbers. There is nothing remotely new or original about their music or performance. For me, CMAT have stolen the show so far from what I have seen.

As Tolstoy contended in Anna Karenina, failure is much more interesting than success. I enjoy the bad acts far more than the competent ones. I've got a big TV, surround sound and I haven't flushed the toilet since lunchtime. It's the just like being there, but much cheaper.

All that is actually pretty true.

I thought some of the vocal harmonies sounded like they were using backing tapes, but I could be wrong. Band is tight, though.

Never mind principles, what about the music? I'm very poorly today and only have Glastonbury for company. In most instances, I hope these bands aren't getting paid much. They don't deserve to be rewarded. It will only encourage them in the deluded idea that they're important and the music is worthwhile. For the most part, they're not, it isn't. What I enjoy most is the discrepancy between the rhetoric of the BBC and the reality. They threaten you with "a spellbinding cultural commentary set to groundbreaking soundtrack of edgy intricate guitar pop" and, inevitably, what turns up is just another crap indie band largely indistinguishable from the last one.

There was a similar hoax recently about Black Sabbath reforming to do yet another farewell concert (supposedly this time they really meant it...allegedly), at Villa Park in July. I knew it couldn't be true because they already said their definitive goodbyes (again) in 2017 and sold tickets on that basis. Also, Ozzy probably can't get to the toilet unaided nowadays, let alone make it through a gig. Even if it was true I'm sure Age Concern would alert social services to such flagrant elder-abuse and it wouldn't be allowed to go ahead.

I think changing from the SD to the GZR would be a bit of a sideways move, and not the best use of money in terms of upgrading the overall bass playing experience. The GZR is a superb pickup, but the SD is just as good as the EMG, albeit with a slightly different flavour. My own personal experience has been that changing pickups can be a big upgrade if you have been using a pickup the is genuinely defective or obviously deficient in some way, but swapping one perfectly good high-end pickup for another because of notional sonic differences that you have read about is usually a disappointing waste of money. If someone is getting a custom Fodera I can understand exploring the nuances of choosing the exact right pickup, butI really don't think a Squire Classic Vibe bass warrants spending that amount of money to explore the subtleties of two high quality replacement pickups. If you've got a Seymour Duncan in there that's already a big upgrade. My advice would be experiment with strings and EQ and try and appreciate the character of the sound as it is.

I've got a very thick Morado(Pau Ferro) fingerboard on my Sadowsky Will Lee and it looks and sounds great. Apparently Roger Sadowsky is a big fan of that particular wood for fingerboards, describing it as sounding warmer than maple or ebony but tighter than rosewood. To me, the biggest difference I can hear between fingerboards is whether they are lacquered or not rather than between different woods, but I'm sure there must be something in it.

I remember when Pau Ferro was considered an exotic upgrade on woods like rosewood and maple. Spector NS2 basses used it for fingerboards back in their 1980's heyday, as did Sadowsky. It's only since rosewood had that funny turn where it became an endangered species that Pau Ferro has become more mainstream and thus invited suspicion that it might be an inferior wood. Bass Player Magazine used to contend that Pau Ferro was sonically halfway between rosewood and maple, if I remember correctly. I can believe that, because it's notably denser and harder than rosewood.

I'm sure the reasons for PMT's demise are complex, but I think one reason why some retailers are struggle is that they lose sight of the basics, i.e stocking products that people are keen to buy. If you've got goods that punters are enthusiastic about, that's more than half the battle. The stuff on the walls at these big retailers is tat at various price points. Needless to say, the bass stuff is usually even more depressing and threadbare than the guitars. The retailers have done "deals" with their suppliers, but in doing so throw the baby out with the bathwater because their stock ends up being not what potential customers are really after. Whether you're a retailer or a private individual selling from an advert on a forum like Basschat, if you've got something that people really want, someone will buy it. I've never had a problem selling a bass because I always buy really nice ones, regardless on whether they are expensive or more affordable models. If you have to convince people why they aught to want what you are selling then it's always going to be an uphill slog. Conversely, if you've got enticing goods to sell there will always be someone who comes forward with the money to buy them.