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I suspect (with no evidence whatsoever 😁) that as bass players, we might find a moderately high level of consensus as to what constitutes an interesting bassline, whilst disagreeing wildly on the merits of the resulting music. For example, whilst I think that Mark King is a talented and inventive bass player, you couldn't pay me to listen to Level 42 - I'd much rather listen to Dee Dee Ramone go 'dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum'! 😆 Though by horrible misfortune, I did once see Level 42 on two successive nights, and only one of them was because I was getting paid...! But I did get a large collection of discarded and largely unused bass strings at the end of the night, as all his basses were being restrung nightly, and the removed strings, used or otherwise, thrown on the floor of the hall. I didn't have to buy any strings for several years, so thanks Mark 🙂

Having come up with his proposition, Stub has tested it by comparing today's top 10 against that of 50 years ago. It's a smallish sample size, but it's a fairly reasonable approximation of a random sampling, and not subject to the bias you suggest. It could be improved by testing a few other randomly selected past/current weeks against each other, but I don't think anyone's aiming for a publishable research paper here. 😆 It is of course restricted to 'top 10'-style music, but that's the point of Stub's proposition. Personally I wouldn't care to venture an opinion one way or the other (not least because I haven't the faintest clue what's in today's charts), but it's a reasonable and (subjectively!) testable hypothesis.

I made one of this type a while ago. It's ok, but not as good as the velcro (because less adjustable), and significantly more effort to make.

I've tried various washing-up sponges etc etc - I find that it's difficult to get exactly the right thickness to get the amount of muting you want, and also that it's diificult to insert/remove them quickly when required. Also it looks a bit mad having a washing-up sponge jammed into your bass.😁 This works better for me

In my quest for an ever more thuddy sound from my Harley Benton violin bass, I have just invented (maybe!) the Patent McCartneyizer mute: Both halves of a strip of velcro, sandwiching the strings at the bridge, superglued together at one end to prevent the two halves from fully separating. Adjust muting strength for each string by trimming the width with scissors. Works really well Total cost: about 20p-worth of velcro?

So do prescious and prescient have the same meaning? Or is there a distinction I'm missing?

Nice, like it! I would have missed this tweak if you hadn't posted, since I had used Stylus (gawdblessit!) to adjust the display to my preference, as is my habit! 😁

Nice! If I may be so bold, I'd like to offer a couple of opinions, not on the functionality but on the UI. 1) Maybe have less bandnames per page? I think 24 is perhaps too many to take in at a time? On the other hand, on my (ordinary-ish?) size screens, on page load, without scrolling, I can only initially see 8 names on my desktop screen, and 4 on my phone. Since the 'generate' button is readily accessible, I would be more inclined to simply press 'generate' to see more, rather than scrolling, except... 2) The UI animations: a) The fireworks are fun, but become distracting and a bit much after a few hits of the generate button. b) The fade-in of the band names slows you down if you're hitting the generate button repeatedly in quick succession Do feel free to ignore me completely - maybe other people have larger screens than me...? Nice URL, btw

Wow, that really is a labour of love! Fair play to ya!

Haha! It's an unavoidable feature of random generators, I think. After all, unexpectedly striking combinations are pretty much the goal. Even with the super-limited wordlist in the pubrock band name generator, a few questionable suggestions do pop up occasionally. Safe to say I don't think I'll be auditioning for The White Vigilantes any time soon. 😮 Jean-Luc, how have you been weeding the word lists for your generator? Surely not by hand?

All good for me (Windows/Firefox). Nice one J-LP

Ya, as long as the noun isn't 'rights' or 'representation'... (looking at you, the modern-day travesty that calls itself Lynyrd Skynyrd...) IN BEFORE THE LOCK! (Retires to safe distance)

Alright, Buzz Killington 😁 I know this since I made it - some time around 2003 I think 😯 My frog is dissected! The repetition and endless recycling is supposed to be in the spirit of dreary pub-rock bands and is kinda the whole point - its purpose is very different to your generator, which could potentially actually be useful! 😁

Weirdly, there are a few unanticipated gems here and there amongst the intentionally cliched and generic pub-rock dross. http://greenwax.co.uk/pubrock_bandname_generator/

A long, long time ago (early 2000s?) I made a slightly similar thing but with a different purpose: to generate a range of the worst, most cliched and generic names for pub rock bands. The sole aim was to make people snigger, groan, and roll their eyes. And purely for the displeasure of Basschat, I present it here: http://greenwax.co.uk/pubrock_bandname_generator I find that you can easily check it for authenticity by imagining a slightly overenthusiastic front-man bellowing "Hello Tiverton, we are... " If you hit the refresh button a few times, you're sure to find the name of a grotty pub band you've actually seen. And if you find the name of your own band, I apologise. You should probably change your band name. 😄

Bought a pedal from Pete - speedy, helpful, and friendly message responses, quick posting and well packed. Many thanks, Paul

In 1979, at the second touring-band gig I had ever attended, I spent the whole gig crushed against the stage directly in front of Algy and his blasting natural-finish Fender P, thinking it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. This definitely had an impact on my choice of a natural finish P-copy (Satellite!) to learn on when I started playing bass not too long after. Thanks Algy. The gig was at the local university and was meant for the students, but lots of us local kids had blagged our way in. Before the Damned started, I had wormed my way to the front of the packed bar queue, to be confronted by an intimidatingly mature (student-aged!) barman. Not wanting to push my luck too far, I squeaked "A... half of lager, please". He glared at my blatantly underaged visage and growled "This is a punk rock gig. You'll have a pint or you'll have nothing." "Er... ok... a... pint of lager, please" I squeaked back. He served me and I fled, victory pint in hand.

Nice! Enjoyed it, and the other couple of songs on Spotify too.

Ahh, I too still have my much-used and much-loved Trace Elliot GP11 Mark 4 preamp, identical to yours as pictured above; great sound and completely bomb-proof construction. Haven't used it in anger for ages, but my emotional attachment to it probably outweighs the paltry sum it would be sellable for. It's certainly earned the houseroom for a quiet retirement!

In case it helps: the Boss website says that the WL-50 uses 60mA in normal operation, and 320mA while charging the transmitter. Edit: just seen that this info has already been posted above. Just ignore me!

I'm sure your pedal would cope fine with phantom power being applied to it; all modern equipment does, unless designed by a lunatic. My personal rule is that any equipment that would be killed by the application of phantom power should be killed by the application of phantom power. 🙂 (With very rare exceptions for vintage ribbon mics)

Another vote for the Joyo American Sound - ridiculously good for the price. Also the Danelectro Cool Cat Transparent Overdrive (Version 1) - a clone of the Paul Cochrane Timmy. They altered it slightly for the Version 2 variant after getting a lot of grief for cloning a one-man builder's original circuit.

For live versions of Stay, this is the one that does it for me. The end section is really cooking on gas.

This has nothing to do with bass playing, and it's definitely a bit unfair to Tony Visconti, but it is very funny...