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I always find it slightly amusing that some people still talk about rap/hip-hop like it's some kind of terrible passing fad. It's been mainstream for 40 years. The first wave of artists are well into their 60s now.

I'm out. I've been thinking about next year's annual January purchase since this years annual January purchase.

I've seen harp guitars before, but this a new one on me. Very pleasant on the ear.

Ibanez Mikro bass? https://www.gak.co.uk/en/ibanez-gsrm20-bk-mikro-bass-black/128549 Although with a 28.6" scale the neck is still longer than most full sized skinny string guitars.

I'm another one who doesn't get the YOB thing. Maybe it would be different if I had a pre CBS birth date? But as it stands I'd much rather have a brand spanking new Stingray or just about any other top end bass from now than anything from my Y.O.B. in the 1970s .

I think there's a real problem that extends beyond specialist musical instrument magazines whereby the reviews of any consumer goods in any mainstream publication just don't seem honest any more. You almost never see a product get slated these days, presumably because the publishers are worried about upsetting the advertisers. Whereas if I come on a forum like BC and ask about an instrument I'm interested in, I'll get a fairly wide range of (often contradictory) opinions and experiences but at least if there is a potential issue with that product people here aren't too polite to mention it. On the downside (as far as the site's owners are concerned) it's unlikey that Rickenbacker will be placing any adverts on BC in the near future...

3 basses a combo and a multi fx unit on the bass side. Unfortunately, undoubtedly triggered by BC, the gear aquisition has also kicked in on the skinny stringer side, so I've also bought a couple of guitars. There'll be something else in January, but my GAS is all over the place at the moment so I'm not sure what it's going to be yet, I'm not even sure the 'what' is that important, I just know that there will be something.

Apart from strings I generally make one or two major purchases a year since I joined BC. I have serious hoarder tendencies when it comes to gear, so I doubt I'm ever moving any of it on.

I went almost fully digital a couple of years ago. It's saves a fair chunk of space and with a couple of decent bluetooth speakers it's easy to play music in any part of the house. I've still got maybe 30 CDs, all stuff that isn't available to stream digitally through spotify or Amazon, but the rest , over 200 of them, all went to local charity shops. I don't miss them.

I'm really enjoying the album. I've not listened to much Latin Jazz, but there's a fair bit more funk on some of the tracks than I was expecting.

I enjoyed that cheers. I've just found an album 'Ultima Noticia' on Amazon music, which I've now added to my library. I'll give it a listen tomorrow.

'The Fabulous Ventures' by the Ventures First impressions: It's a bit likeThe Shadows on steroids.

Maybe it's a protoype and he hasn't decided on a finish yet?

I use both scratchplate and pickguard, just to confuse myself. I always say 'pick' though, 'plectrum' just sounds a bit grand for a small plastic triangle.

Would he be the first bass player to get an official Music Man signature model?

I support the idea in theory, but I'm likely to be here anyway, unless I'm otherwise engaged doing extensive online research on whatever I happen to have GAS for this time next week.

I've got to start checking the Jam House website more regularly. It's a great music venue, if I'd have known about this I would have been there.

It's been posted before, but both Chas and Dave played on this ...which was later sampled by Dr Dre for Eminem's breakthrough single 'My Name Is'. So, in conclusion, RIP Chas Hodges, international hip hop superstar.

No idea what that is, but I like it.

I like the new aesthetic a lot. The vintage reliced body with the hi tech neck give it a sort of steampunk vibe. I'm sure it sounds and plays fantastically well too.

I believe there's an obscure law that states that there must be a former member of the SAS stationed in every pub in Britain at all times.

He makes some valid points about every generation predictably denigrating the music produced by the next. But the stuff about your musical tastes being set when you're a teenager is complete BS. In my teens I was listening pretty much exclusively to heavy metal bands like Maiden, Megadeth and Anthrax. I stopped listening to that stuff in my early twenties. It would never occur to me to put one of their albums on these days. Now I mainly listen to to soul, funk and jazz stuff that I would have turned off if it had come on the radio when when I was kid. I'd guess most people are the same, eventually we get bored of the same old, same old and move on to something else.

Tuba Hip-Hop Reggae Jazz.

Result.

There's something a bit odd about that clip. There's a quite a lot of it where what the guitarist and bass player appear to be playing doesn't seem to be the same thing that's coming out of the PA. And what's all that strumming the strings halfway up the neck about?