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im the urban spaceman - bonzo dog band

that joke isn’t funny anymore - the smiths 

bankrobber - the clash 

starving in the belly of a whale- tom waits

Broken - Abdominal and the obliques

10 hours ago, stevel said:

I'm surprised no-one has yet mentioned the biggest part of the mass of a bass... the body. If you're really committed to the idea of making it as light as possible, seems an obvious place to start. I recently bought a 2nd hand Hofner Shorty Bass for £75 - cheap as chips and weighs 2.3kg. If you can cope with the neck dive, there isn't much that'll be lighter. 

Hi yep indeed. This is why I suggested the Warmoth dinky P.

They also make chambered and hollow bodied variants.

the gambler - kenny rogers

2 hours ago, joe_geezer said:

There are some folks that cannot afford the £6000+ for a bolt on instrument. I'm not rich but I could afford one tomorrow, no problem, but I would never condone the prices and you can't force me to either, respectfully.

 

I wonder if Waller and Pete would have wanted Wal's legacy to live on as a company that only creates bass guitars for the privileged few... 

To be fair not many people can afford to manufacture bespoke, hand tooled items in 2022. The world has changed. 

The problem with scaling up any business is that it involves compromise. That may mean compromise on quality, culture, ethics or service. If I owned a small long running, successful business that was my passion I would try to keep it as close to my control as possible. Then again I am no Alan Sugar and that whole corporate world leaves me cold. Also once a business reaches a certain size it can become vulnerable and require risky loans to break out of that zone between being a bespoke relatively risk free operation that provides for a low number of people to a more risky business requiring significant cash injection to scale up and employ more people, buy premises etc etc. To survive this transition manufacturing often is offshored and this is when quality and service can nose dive.

lead me on - kelly joe phelps 

Sophie Softly - Gruff Rhys

Travelling Man - Free

Bodyrock - Moby

Cherub rock - The Smashing Pumpkins

10 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

Ceder or Paulownia is much lighter than swamp ash or basswood

Im not sure Warmouth offer either of those but a luthier certainly would…

I don’t know the weight but a SD single coil P pickup cant be heavy?

Someone on BC had recommended them so may know.

Added to a swamp ash or basswood Warmouth dinky P with rear cavity and 2 light weight knobs and it must be pretty light?

the house carpenter - kelly joe phelps 

in the jailhouse now - soggy bottom boys 

great balls of fire / gerry lee lewis 

friend of the devil - grateful dead 

8 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

 

They would have been guns and roses with someone else, as you would have never known them any different. Maybe they would be better, I doubt they would be worse and maybe they would have got nowhere, but they would have been guns and roses.

 

 

Same here, best thing for me that ever happened to genesis was PG leaving, I think they were both better afterwards.

I think we will have to agree to disagree. Slash’s Snakepit being a good example. G&R members for the most part but didn’t have the same impact. it’s not about the name but the body of work produced by the artists involved at a certain period of their lives. Great vocalist or not Axl Rose brought a dynamic that worked perfectly for that band in that era. 

Edit: In the same way during MacGowans heavy alcoholic days I saw Jem Finer taking vocals (he sings better) but it wasn’t the Pogues. It was an average pub band.

jimmy - tool

too late

19 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

 

If those people had fronted Guns and Roses, yes, that would have been bad. But they were fine in their own bands. I mean, I am not a fan of the pogues or PiL, but all of those they matched the singer with the band. Guns and roses didn't.

I don’t see bands this way. The creative input and personality of the members lead to what music they produce. Without Axl Rose,  Guns &Roses wouldn’t be the same band. Maybe they would have been a better band with better songs or maybe they would have gone nowhere. But they wouldn’t have been Guns & Roses.

1 minute ago, Woodinblack said:

 

For me the worst offender is the intro to the album, welcome to the jungle, it really builds up like it is going to be a flat out rock tune, then it takes a pause, and then what sounds like a character from the simpsons starts singing, and brings the energy of the track right down.

I guess we could say the same about PiL, The Cure, The Pogues etc Alfie Boe has a lovely singing voice yet if he fronted any of the aforementioned bands they would have been cr@p. 

fire and water / free