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I am tempted, my msical tastes have gone in a very diferent durection over the years, but a lot of that line up is the soundtrack of my teenage years. Doubt I'll find the time to watch the whole thing in one sitting though so it would work better for me if they gave us at least a couple of weeks to work our way though it.

Just had a bit of a play on Fender Studio. Used my Katana Go as the interface with the phone, works pretty well but I'll probably try the focusrite as well when I've got the right cable, just to compare. The app itself is pretty intuitive to get started rough recording a few tracks, but I tnink I'm going to need to read the instructions/ watch some tutorials to start unlocking it's full potential. Pretty impressed so far tbough.

I guess with the Fazely stuff there's a chance that Bax's earlier financial problems might have disrupted the manufacturing process if they weren't able to pay the factory at any point.

Did he actually hear it? I was gobsmacked the first time I heard the double bass noises coming out of a tiny uke bass. Not sure what I thought I thought it was going to sound like, but certainly not that!

Why do they need 7 double bassists? "THE CALL is a durational performance exploring resilience, identity, and the politics of the body. The work poses the central question ‘Is the body an enabler or an entrapment?’ Rooted in ritual and endurance, Mahsa Salali stands motionless, bearing 20 kilograms of chain, connected to seven double bassists." Obvious really.

It should do. This should work for most focusrite style interfaces. Fender sell a much neater gizmo, specially designed for the job, which I suspect is where they hope to make money on the free app, at least until they start charging a subscription fee a few months down the line... https://uk.fender.com/products/fender-link-i-o

This one has caught my eye, seems iike a pretty simple plug in & record type set up, especially compared to some of the PC DAWs I've used with various degrees of success. I'm planning on giving it a proper test drive when I get back from holiday in a couple of weeks.

That was unexpectedly disturbing.

Interesting litytle article from the current Private Eye about Meta & scams. The last paragraph says it all really.

My experience of reporting a similar scam page to Meta on Instagram was that the post in question did not breach any rules. I also contacted Andertons directly and got the response that they also struggled to get the scammers impersonating them shut down. The bottom line is that Meta's complaints procedure seems to be entirely automated and unable to detect this kind of scam so it refuses to remove the ads. Meta must be fully aware of the issue, it's been going on for years, you have to conclude they value the revenue from scam ads more than they value protecting their users from scammers

I've had a few goes on the configurator, but the options were just too limited to spec out anything special enough for me to actually seriously consider a purchase. Last time I looked, which, to be fair, was over a year ago, they weren't even offering matching headstocks.

I doubt your complaint was ever even seen by a human being, just instantly scanned and rejected by an automated program, with the the response witheld for 2 days just to give the illusion that some kind of considered process had taken place. The big social media companies have always taken the position that they bear zero responsibility for how people use the platform that they provide, to the point where they are extremely reluctant to acknowledge that they are even aware that any criminal activity takes place on their services in case that implies they have any kind of moral duty to police and prevent such activity.

That was my thought, reading between the lines of the letter. The Hiscox brand has too much value to just throw on the scrap heap, I'm certain it will continue, probably manufactured in the Far East although they may wait a while to see how all the Trump tariff nonsense plays out before they make the decision on exactly where, which would explain why they're not taking any more orders at the moment.

I prefer it in the 'new' colour, adds to the retro chic, as do the lipstick pickup covers, it looks amazing now, like a forgotten entry in an old Danelectro catalogue

Considering how bad a lot of modern statues are, this one is an exceptional likeness. I've nicked this pic of the statue in the workshop, because it's the only image I've found so far that clearly shows the face. Nice detail on the hands too "Cast in bronze, the statue portrays Lemmy with his Rickenbacker 4001 bass, his head tilted up towards the microphone, playing the opening chord to their 1979 hit Overkill" Excellent job,both the artist and Stoke on Trent should be delighted.

One of the many quirks of the human brain is that the emotion of moral outrage stimulates dopamine production, which , in very basic terms, rewards the person experiencing that emotion by making them feel nice, even at the same time that they are angry. The tabloids cottoned on to this many years ago and social media is equally aware. Stoking outrage is a proven way to generate interest from people who at some level know it's going to give them that dopamine hit. Of course it's also absolutely natural to feel those emotions when somebody clearly trangresses the normal moral and ethical boundaries, but whenever you get a huge mass public outpouring of outrage it's always worth considering whether the original transgression really warrants that extensive reaction (of course, sometimes as in the case of say, terrorist attrocities it clearly does) or whether , essentially, people are just enjoying the dopmine high at this point. And whether those continuing to stoke said outrage, in this case more than a month after the transgressions came to light, really care, or are they just cynically jumping on the bandwagon for guaranteed clicks and likes and, in some cases, financial rewards.

I don't think any has said that he didn't do anything wrong. I'm just not sure the situation requires every music adjacent youtuber and tik tokker in the world to make their own video on how absolutely awful what he did is. It all seems rather performative, like being seen to be outraged has become more important than the original crime.

I remember reading about these, probably in Bassist magazine in the 90s. Good score.

I just find the while 'outrage loop' phenomenon fascinating.

Reading all this is an interesting exercise in how social media feeds off itself. Okay the guy did wrong and got caught, but in doing so he seems to have provided enough material to launch a thousand reaction/ commentry clips by other creators. It's an ill wind and all that...

£340 for a top of the range washboard? Everyday's a school day.

My first electric skinny stringer was a pre loved 80s Hohner Strat that I got from the bargain bin at Musical Exchanges in Brum in '88 or '89. Really decent guitar, I've definitely paid more for worse instruments in the years that followed.

I'd maybe look for a stacked humbucker or double rail type that will fit the single coil rout but give significantly more output than most standard single coil J pups.

There's a luthier I follow on instagram, Cindy Guitars who's usp is using reclaimed wood she's obtained from various old New York buildings. Some of her instruments can look a little 'distressed' and are probably not to everyone's taste, but as far as I'm aware she doesn't claim any mystical tone properties for them. https://www.cindyguitars.com/ This is an interesting example https://www.cindyguitars.com/#/hshdh-1/

Bacci make some genuinely interesting instruments. I really like the look and concept of these https://www.andertons.co.uk/bacci-guitars-leonardo-dual-outputddsatin-bosco-roasted-maple28-scale-celeste-radiance/ For the uninitiated it's a baritone guitar with a separate pickup for the lowest three strings which opens up various options like putting them through a bass amp or a synth pedal while the other pickups send the signal from all six strings into another amp. If nothing else, it's a bit different. The bass in the OP, on the other hand, is just a very expensive P bass.