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Cricket was intentionally designed to be overly long and intricate and difficult for outsiders to understand, in order to deter the rest of world from wanting to beat us at it. That plan didn't quite work out.

Chvrches. Great band. Terrible name.

Nice score.

Would it be any cheaper if you had tried to order it through a dealer? If it came as part of a bulk order the shipping would be reduced at the very least.

Of course it might help if I occasionally (ever) cleaned or changed the screen protector.

It only really seems to affect the fingertips of my two plucking fingers, but it has happened to me, some advices seem more prone to it than others.

You've been in then?

He's in a great deal of pain. A couple of seconds after that picture taken the immense weight snapped his spine.

Not really a fail, but I've stopped going into my most local music shop even if I happen to be walking past the door because it's boring. Unless you happen to have an unusual fetish for Eiphone Tobies or bottom of the range Ibanez's, the bass section is boring. Unless you want to pay over the odds for a MIM Fender, the guitar section is boring. They must sell a lot of keyboards, brass instruments and kazoos to stay afloat.

I only play for people if they agree to dance for me.

Since before the internet I've always pronounced Ibanez as i ban ez I've since found out that company themselves pronounce it as eye ban ez. I think the company is wrong.

Doesn't matter what you're making. I'd follow the thread if you were building a sideboard.

It's not so much the stories of his experience with various artists that makes me think he may be losing it, but his story about dating Ivanka Trump and his claims about the Kennedy assassination seem a bit far fetched.

I'm a firm believer that almost anything can be played if you slow it down enough then gradually work back up to full speed. There are exceptions, where the part is played using a technique like double thumbing, which I currently struggle with, but I reckon with most stuff I usually get there in the end.

My first bass was a black Axe ordered off the back of an issue of Metal Hammer for Christmas one year. It wasn't terrible. The J Pickup didn't really do anything and the action was a bit on the high side and aged 14 in the pre internet age I didn't really know how to adjust anything. I ended up defretting it with a pair of pliers after I upgraded to a Washburn Status.

I don't think he's grumpy, I think he's probably quite seriously ill.

We all hit plateaus. Times when we feel we're stuck in a rut, just playing the same old stuff without ever improving. I got out of my last one, a few years ago, by expanding my repertoire, I learned to slap and started playing genres I'd never considered before. Youtube tutorials were a huge help. As others have said, most of us have a tendency to play down our ability, especially to ourselves. Don't get despondent, cliched as it sounds, sometimes it's more useful to focus on the positives.

It's only early February and I 'm pretty sure that 70s Jazz is going to be next years bass purchase.

...and that is the correct answer.

The guy is obviously a serious talent and I can only dream of possessing that level of skill, but it's not the most pleasant sound I've ever heard.

I'm somewhere in the middle. I have no problems with setting action and intonation on my basses and guitars, but truss rods scare me. So far, touch wood, I've never had to adjust one, but if one of my instruments did ever develop neck bow it would be going straight to a tech. I love my guitars too much to risk effing it up.

Precision Deluxe Special. It's a PJ rather than a straight P, but they're in production at the moment and older models appear on the used market pretty regularly.

Guy sounds like a total Rooster. I knew a guy who worked backstage at the old Academy in Birmingham (the one that used to be the Hummingbird). He told me that certain bands specifically requested that the staff didn't talk them. He once said something along the lines of 'sorry mate' to the singer from quite a famous American band when they happened to be passing in a narrow backstage corridor before a show and the guy just completely blanked him, despite the fact they both had to turn sideways to get past each other.

If only they did a five string...