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I'm pretty sure that people cut and paste tabs from one site and post them on others, that's why you often see the exact same mistakes on multiple sites. Once an incorrect tab goes online it's only a matter of time before it's on all the tab sites.

My guitar and bass collection ranges between about £300 to £1750 new. At the moment my most played bass is a fretless Sire jazz which I think was a shade under £400 when I bought it new.

There was a fairly famous case in 2011 where an algorithm designed to keep a book competitively priced ended up pushing the price eyewateringly high. https://www.wired.com/2011/04/amazon-flies-24-million/ While I was looking for that link I also found this https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2020/12/16/beware-of-this-amazon-scam-cds-selling-for-thousands-of-dollars/?sh=550eb8401cd5 For what it's worth I don't believe it's a scam or money laundering as suggested in the Forbes article, apart from anything else the affected CDs mentioned in the article are pretty niche and unlikely to sell that many copies even at a normal price. The algorithm thing seems the most likely culprit.

My P Deluxe Special from around 2016 is my go to bass. Slim neck, versatile 3 band preamp that can be switched off for passive mode, tonally it covers a lot of ground. The one slightly odd thing about that version is that there's no tone control in passive mode. Doesn’t bother me but would probably be a deal breaker for anyone wanting to roll the tone down for a more old school sound.

I don't know specifically about EMG pickups but there are shortages on various random things at the moment because there is a shortage of shipping containers in the far east which is causing delays in products manufactured there being shipped to Europe. I know someone who payed 4 times the usual price for some Babylis hair curler gas cartridges on ebay because there are apparently none in UK shops at the moment.

Just discovered this on the Eastwood site. I think I'm in love.

I put a set of Aguilar 70s jazz pick ups into into a VM70s Squire Jazz. I didn't do before and after clips but I definitely didn't notice a radical difference once the new pickups were installed. I have wondered if they were too close in spec to the original Duncan designed Squier pickups in what was after all supposed to be 70s style Jazz.

I love the blocks. It's something a bit different on a P bass, makes it stand out from the crowd.

Esperanza Spalding. Meshell Ndegeocello

A friend of mine who is writing a book on online romance scammers interviewed a detective a while back who told her 'Action Fraud' is basically a third party call centre where civillian operators log details of complaints. The information is passed on to the relevant police units but apparently they're all completely overwhelmed by the sheer volume and scope of online and mobile phone based scams operating at the moment.

I've always really liked the aesthetics of Ritters. But I also think I'd look utterly ridiculous playing one. They look like they should be wielded by some sexy individual in one of Prince's backing bands, not some middle aged man in a pub. No 0ffence to any middle aged men playing their Ritter down the Dog and Duck.

I think perhaps the meaning of 'Rock and Roll' has shifted over time and now means different things to different people. 'Popular Music Hall of Fame' is perhaps a better term for what the institution was actually set up to celebrate.

I went for Eminem Devo MC5 New York Dolls Beck. The first 4 have all been massively influential even if , apart from Eminem, they never really enjoyed huge commercial success or became household names themselves. Beck is just unique.

I enjoyed that. Nice mellow tone somewhere between a guitar, a bass and a banjo. Although the guy is so far above my level of ability I'll not be switching the strings on my fretless to emulate him anytime soon.

Judging by their guitar range I think in the past when Music Man have done a signature guitar they've tended to design a completely new model with that artist, rather than just pop a signature on a model they already make. The Joe Dart Rays just about fit with that in that they have none standard electronics albeit in a Stingray body.

I like the Meteora shape, I nearly bought one of the double humbucker skinny stringers a couple of years ago. The bass looks like it might be a bit neck divey though.

I have no idea what kind of deal Joe Dart has with Music Man but considering that every bass they put his name on sells out within a few days I hope his remuneration reflects the not inconsiderable revenue he's brought in for the company. As for the Ray shaped Jazz I imagine it will be probably be a matter of when not if a limited run is made available and they'll be snapped up immediately too.

Mine had both. A short mouthpiece for playing vertically and a much longer tube for horizontal. It was the tube that used to get a bit nasty.

I bought a cheap melodica many years ago in a doomed attempt to teach myself keys. The thing that really suprised me was just how much saliva collects in the blowing-tube-thing.

Squier have really upped their game in terms of colours options and specs on their skinny stringers in recent years. It's great to see their bass range getting a similar upgrade.

My big breakthrough with playing fast for extended periods came when I realised that if I turned the amp up I could just brush the strings with my fingertips so I'm hitting the top of the string with much less force than my previous techinque where I was plucking the side of the string. If that makes any sense.

That Westone is stunning.

Welcome back KB!

Steel Panther are basically a Spinal Tap tribute act for the Hair Metal generation. Fair play to them for keeping the joke going for as long as thay have.

I've only ever heard the Macc lads when I was 13 and round a mates house who thought they were the funniest thing ever, but suspect that their use of racist language would probably get them banned from most venues these days. And, to be honest, I really don't have a problem with that.