Frank Blank

Brave! But worthwhile, it looks cracking.

Having worked in the music world for fifteen odd years (as a tech rather than a musician) I found that bands on their way up tended to be the ones full of themselves, the vast majority of the big names (in my limited experience) were cool. Behaviour like this is also facilitated by the obsequious sycophants that surround them. My career as a driver/tech/roadie was an interesting period, I have been thrown off tours (once in the middle of the US) for speaking my mind yet also my services were requested sometimes precisely because I was straight about things. Generally I suppose a-holes remain that way, cool folk remain that way regardless of the level of success or the business they are in.

I have a Chowny Pro on order to satisfy my electric SS bass needs and my main bass is the Taylor GS Mini-e Bass, but I’m thinking about starting up a heavy dub band in the next few months and now I’m wondering if the Aerodyne might be the very bass for that project?

I think you all have very valid points. I did buy it, initially, because I love the look of it and I love the weight too, and, thinking more about what @visog said I can be fickle sometimes and throw all my toys out the pram over very little. I think I need to apply a little adult reason and give it a proper chance.

I don’t think that’s a fickle, nor arbitrary, decision. In fact it wasn’t a decision at all, it was a discovery on playing a short scale for the first time.

I have it up for sale right now as a week after purchase I discovered I should be playing short scale. I haven't played a note on it. I think I'm just going to have to take a huge hit on this one and put it down to experience.

I would have found the MF afterwards and spoilt his day royally in whatever manner came to mind.

The do look great and are very light but also cost £1083 at most places... Damn.

Someone just put me out of my misery, I've spent 1k+ on a spanking new Aerodyne and the only real comment I've seen on here compared it to a Mondeo. Shall I just take it down the end of the garden, Townsend it and make a fire?

They didn’t have the ‘cute’ singer initially, but they did have sheep skulls on sticks, some of which still had their eyes in. I saw Fad Gadget a few times, a much underestimated musician imho.

It was terrifying and great too!

The Birthday Party at the Electric Ballroom 26/04/83

Heaven Hell... Tool Heaven... Hell Jaco P

This true, particularly on the E, if you tune using the harmonic it seems to remedy this most of the time but not always.

+1 Polytune. The best clip-on solution imho.

That’s excellent!

Excellent! I’d love to try one.

One of those perfect moments in music, that is, as you say, one of the best singles (that word ages us doesn’t it) of all time.

This is so subjective, has so many variables, that we all have our own individual ideas of what is ‘good’, what constitutes a ‘10’ on our own individual scale. There is no yardstick outside of of our likes and dislikes that has an inherent objective scale from ‘bad’ to ‘good’. Take Jah Wobble for instance, he is one of my favourite bass players. If I had to to explain why I would have to link it back to one album, Metal Box, then to refine my explanation in order to define what it is about his bass lines on that album I realise that almost every single definition I come up with is connected with a host of feelings, subjective notions, memories and just a huge stack of junk. I can describe some of his bass lines as ‘sublime’ in my opinion but I do not attempt to emulate the myriad qualities within those basslines in order to become a ‘better’ bass player because I realise that those basslines are a subjective meeting midway between me as the listener, hearing the line with all my likes, dislikes, peccadilloes and the line he is producing, with all his likes, dislikes and peccadilloes. My idea of a ‘good’ bass player can only ever be a Venn crossover between my subjective junk yard and Jah Wobble’s. Music is art, art is subjective. If music moves me emotionally then I consider it good, not good generally but good in my mind to me and that sense of good is impossible to define.

Genius...

Yes, I am equally unsure on this very point.

I very much doubt you’d do anything to illicit me gobbling at you. I Spit at bands/people far less now than when I was a punk, but, given exceptional circumstances, it’s still in the repertoire so to speak.

It was a truncated list at that.

One aims to please.