Osiris

Protest and survive - Discharge

Givin' the dog a bone - AC/DC

This was my experience too, especially being a bit of a short ar5e myself. A wrist injury eventually made playing 'normal' basses all but impossible for more than a few minutes. A mate of mine who works in health care, and is also a bass player, suggested trying a short scale to see if that helped - and it was a revelation. I could now play for hours without cramping up and the tighter fret spacing made playing feel ridiculously easy compared to my old big basses, so much so that whenever I pick up a 34" scale bass it feels cumbersome and impractical. I've slowly replaced all of basses with short scales now and can't see myself ever owning anything longer. Fnarr. While it could be a passing fad, I suspect that there will be a few existing players either picking one up or even transitioning exclusively (another mate of mine who's also been playing for decades is doing just that), not to mention new starters being attracted to the ease of playing compared to the standard monoliths. After all, it's a legal requirement that every short scale review must describe the bass as 'fun'! So I think they'll be hanging around for a while yet. While they may not eradicate the standard scale bass, they do the same thing in a smaller, lighter, more comfortable and easier to play format. Why make life difficult for yourself?

Run like hell - Pink Floyd

Riverboat song - Ocean Colour Scene

American idiot - Green Day

Wango Tango - Ted Nugent

Pigs of Uranus - The Pink Fairies

Hanging around - The Stranglers

Eternity - Robbie Williams

Sweet child of mine - Guns & Roses

Going nowhere - Therapy

Arnold Lane - Pink Floyd

Down in a hole - Alice in chains

Black magic woman - Santana

Lonely boy - Sex Pistols

Break like the wind - Spinal Tap

Off the top of my head I've had the Stomp go down and an amp die when gigging over the last 10 years. As for QC improving, I'm not sure that I'd necessarily agree with that. Business these days is about making as much money as possible for as little outlay as possible, which is why so many things are made in the far east, corners are cut e.g. components are allegedly swapped out for cheaper alternative which has a knock on effect of reduced reliability. Things just aren't made to last, that way you go out and buy another one after a few years. It's how consumerism works. This probably explains, at least in part, my own failures plus the ones you've experienced e.g. the compressor pedal you returned for a refund, the broken USB port on your own stomp (though I still believe that this was damaged by the original owner). And of course, your Yamaha Nathan East, which was allowed to leave the factory with cheap gold hardware 😃

I do like the look of the Q strip but would want to try one out before committing. Fortunately, there's no hurry to get something soon!

Cheers, but I'm going off the idea of the AO now.

Dallas 1 p.m. - Saxon

Toxic - Britney Spears

I alone - Live

Love like blood - Killing Joke

The above 2 tracks are from the No Rest For The Wicked album, as @JohnnyBGood says has some fantastic plectrum (as they were called when I were a lad) playing. The tone and the style used on the album is clearly influenced by JJ Brunel, but with its own slant. It's a sublime album, one of my all time favourites. The follow up album, The Ghost of Cain, after Stuart Morrow had left felt empty without his playing. Some great playing there too, Johnny.