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Doctor J

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  1. Steinberger detuner bridge for headed basses
  2. I love playing bass but find fretted bass to be a mediocre solo instrument, no matter who's playing it. Fretless allows much more subtlety and it works in the hands of some players. Sonically, to me, fretted just sounds unsuited to a lot of the emotive kind of things you hear a lot of players attempting. Too metallic, too noisy, just not pleasant to the ear. I get taken out of the music by the unsuitable characteristics of the instrument. The same piece of music played on certain other instruments usually sounds so much better. I appreciate the technical ability of the players, but it's just something which doesn't hold any interest for me as a music listener. Bass, as an ensemble instrument, however, locking in with some drums is manna from heaven.
  3. I knew a classical flautist, years ago, who couldn't get their head around the idea of composing their own music and, in particular, improvisation. She was quite excellent at her instrument whereas, in the band I was in at the time, writing our own stuff and improvising were completely natural to us, it seemed like the kind of thing every musician would just instinctively know and do, but not so. When I'm writing music, I usually hear everything, all the instruments and melodies. The process of making a real song out of it frequently becomes a tedious chore, as taking it out of my head and into the real world often involves lots of compromise because my ability to play the required instrumentation and manipulate my voice, in particular, frequently doesn't match what I think the music requires. I have to work hard to get rid of the pre-conceived idea and work at something I can actually do and record in real life.
  4. Lovely. I always wanted to try one of the Milan basses. I have one of the very short lived Tony Iommi signature guitars from that era, based on the Vienna model, a fantastic thing. I managed to visit the facotry in Coventry around 1996, a dream factory, for sure. They knew what they were doing, so I'm sure that bass is superb.
  5. I would be thankful it wasn't covered in piss.
  6. Ahh don't you see? It's his version of a Lace Sensor!!! He has science by the throat!
  7. For the listening pleasure of those who use Spotify
  8. There are a lot more people interested in sharing their music than there are people who want to take the time and effort to listen to other people's shared music and comment on it. As I recall, the Share Your Music and Noodle Bar (R.I.P.) areas were created to give a home to this stuff and to try to reduce the clutter in other forums of self-promotion threads which, let's be honest (going by the views vs responses in those forums), there isn't much genuine interest in.
  9. Is it a user account who had set up their name as "Reverb" and is just firing out PMs by the look of it. If you click on the sender name in your messages it should give you more details on the account.
  10. What is the email address it's coming from?
  11. Just home from seeing Cynic, first time without Reinert. While I enjoyed them and the new guy is superb, it's not the same at all.
  12. If the truss rod has seized and the neck is financially impractical to fix, you're stuck so what have you got to lose by brute force? Loosen first, of course, just to see if you can get it moving, and possibly lubricate the threads?
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