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[quote name='blue' timestamp='1432454845' post='2781510'] There is still no reason for a 21 year old that doesn't know what an electric guitar is to get up in my face and make a mock of me while I'm trying to make a living. blue [/quote] Don't take it personally. Most music venues sell alcohol. Inevitably some people end up acting like tools. Its not about you.

Go into as many shops as you can. Try everything you can get your hands on. Things to look out for (although in your price bracket it shouldn't too much of an issue). Fretbuzz (irritating, usually fixable but sometimes not). Dead spots. Unacceptable levels of hum or noise on the pickups. (again this can often be fixed but depending on the the cause but can be an annoying expense if you eg. end up having to replace the pick ups). Also check all the strings sound at the same volume when amplified, its not that common these days but I've played basses with weak Gs & on one occasion even a weak A. Good luck & enjoy.

I'd be interested to know what he's got. Has he gone for the gold plated Ritter with fossilized mammoth ivory inlays and strings hand wound by virgins out of unicorn mane & fairy pubes? Or is he more of a Squier CV kind of a chap?

+1 to Overkill. Try https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0KBryUoCto for starters. I cut my bass playing teeth playing along to early Overkill albums. One of the things that separates them from the rest of the Thrash crowd is the clarity of the bass in the mix. Although the vocals are probably a bit marmite...

I'm a huge Alice fan. I love the way he evolved his sound throughout his career. Here's one of my favourites from his all too brief electro pop era. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRa3X6PX_ag

I don't listen to much metal these days, but Peace Sells is still one of my all time favourite albums. I was absolutely blown away the first time I listened to it, I'd never heard anything like it before. Megadeth were definitely my personal favourite out of the original 'Big 4' thrash bands.

Agree with the Smiths - I quite like some of the music but Morrisey's lyrics were always far too clever & smug for me - I always felt the The Wedding Present did it better & without constantly blowing their own trumpets about it. At the risk of being ostracized I quite like a lot of Hip-Hop especially G-Funk era Dr Dre productions & solo stuff, if , like me you grew up in rural England the lyrics are ridiculous, but there's something about it that makes my head nod. Try https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wBTdfAkqGU. (Warning contains some bad language & probably a few n-words).

Been lurking around browsing these pages more & more over the last few weeks & though it was about time I joined. Not sure how much I have to contribute as I don't have the experience or the equipment of some you guys. I'm not even in a band at the moment (although I'm trying to change that) & although I've always considered myself primarily a bass player most of my gigging experience has been playing rhythm guitar & doing lead vocals. Never planned it that way, its just the way things turned out. I'm actually looking forwards to standing at the back and concentrating on the instrument that was always my first love. Anyhoo, there you go, I''ll probably have some daft questions about equipment that have already been asked about a hundred times in due course. Cheers.

The chorus to 'By the Rivers of Babylon' was lifted, pretty much word for word, from Psalm 137 from the Old Testament. The Psalm itself refers to the exile of of the Jews after the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in 586 BC & was probably written within 100 years of those events, making those lyrics around 2,500 years old. Turn,Turn,Turn by Pete Seeger has a similar Old Testament pedigree.