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The only time I get annoyed at peoples choices is when they try to force their beliefs on me.

At new year I will be mostly drunk.

Try buying a pint and a coke and see which is cheaper.

More than a top bloke I would say. If someone wasn't drinking in my company I would not expect them to buy alcoholic drink rounds as they are only drinking cheaper soft drinks.

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How do they know if someone is vegan? Because they will tell them.

I have a couple of Precision basses. I love the chunky neck. I also have a couple of Jazz basses. I love the slim neck.

Just to be clear, I am not saying wood doesn't make any difference to an electric guitar. I am saying that I can't hear any difference. It's purely my opinion. I wanted to say that before I am flooded with replies saying you are wrong and citing examples of expensive woods making certain luthiers guitars so much better than the next. In my opinion an acoustic instrument benefits greatly from the material being of superior quality but on a sold bodied instrument the body does not resonate much if at all. The sound is made by the pick ups resonating to the string vibration. The strings are just there to oscillate a magnetic field on the pickups, and besides the body (and neck, bridge, etc) is usually pretty solid anyway so not much change for the small force of fingers on strings to resonate such a dense object.

Well there plenty of wood in my home build. It weighs a ton! Sounds superb right enough. I have always scoffed at electric guitars and whatever wood they are made of arguments. Pick ups and strings are the big changers in sound in my opinion. Bridges, scale length etc can make slight differences but it's an electric instrument. People make electric guitars out of metal and they sound great.

I don't wear this wood argument. I have a P bass that I made out of bits from EBay. It's cheap wood and paint from Homebase. I put EMG's in it and it sounds as good as my American Std. P bass.

I always performed with a few in me. For some reason I found that my vocal chords loosened. I know vocal teachers would disagree with this but it worked for me. Helped with stage fright too. On the few occasions where I played totally sober I was tight and stilted and my voice would start straining after a while.

I'm way ahead of you.

Nah, I do it by dragging your fingers across the G and D strings without sounding them. Play the root then octave then drag your fingers across the strings and play the root again. works for me.

Loving this band just now!

Someone who was bass sympathetic definitely mixed that one. Great song but love how the bass is so prominent in this version.

Everyone is diagnosing his comments right left and centre but maybe he was just joking. Has the world lost it's sense of humour?

I don't know about Japan but I have bought many items from China with no problems. I started with things that I wouldn't be too bothered about if they didn't come and gradually as I grew more confident bought more expensive items. If China is ok, I would imagine Japan would be better. At the end of the day it's down to the individual sellers decency. Pay pal has protection too.

Dirty Livin' by Kiss. Great pic song.

We used to finish our set with a version of the Last of the Mohicans tune (The Gael) and it built from a slow start until it was a galloping bass line. Frequently I used to get cramp in my fingers during this after a whole night of playing, so I started playing this tune with a pic. It stopped the cramps which would turn my hand into a useless claw!

Another thing to watch out for is sibilance. Apologies if you know about this but in case you don’t. Having your mouth too close to the mic when pronouncing “S” or “CH” sounds can cause an un attractive hiss if you don’t learn how to control it. Again, I had years of practice but you still need a sound check just in case it’s not you.

Syncopation alone isn't all bad. There’s syncopation and there’s syncopation. Some songs can be really quite complicated and vary in timings but for some reason you can nail them. Possibly because the vocal works around the varying rythms Then there’s others (“all these things I’ve done” for me) where the simplest little bit can floor you and you just can’t get it. I will reiterate, the bass part needs to be learned ad nauseum so that EVERY bit of concentration is given to the vocal. I know if I had given more time to rehearsing that verse I would have got it but I always thought we are getting away with it and I have so much else to learn. we used to play “into the mystic” by Van Morrison. No trouble. “Crazy little thing called love” by queen. Again, no trouble. The syncopated parts in those songs offered no problems but that damned Killers song!

im the opposite. I like to use a pick for certain songs for the attack but I find I get all mixed up when I need to play different strings. I’m just so used to playing finger style.

We used to play "All These Things I've Done" by The Killers. Dead easy bass line but I struggled to play and sing the verse because of the timing of the bass. I tried and tried but couldn't do both. I had to simplify it and it annoyed the hell out of me every time we played it. I could play far more complicated songs and sing over them but that one always stumped me.

I remember many years ago when I was first forced into singing (our very average singer had left) and I first heard my voice coming from speakers it was weird. It takes a bit of getting used to at first. I think you just have to say f*** it! And just belt it out. You will soon learn how to regulate your voice

I was the bass player and singer for our band for many years. I always hated the sound of my own voice but people kept saying I was decent. I tried getting someone else in to sing but everyone said it won't be the same band so I was stuck with it. As for singing and playing, you just have to get the bass part learned until it's pure muscle memory so that you can concentrate on the vocal. If it's a particularly hard part break it down and think which notes land on which lyric and try and play it simplified. Once you get that then you can try to add the rest of the fills or whatever. It worked for me.