Doctor J

Hard to know who the market is for it though. It's a fair whack more expensive than the import versions from his previous two endorsers and he's hardly a household name.

Indeed. It would be a shame to see such innovative and iconic instruments disappear like Vigier, Pedulla and others.

24 minutes ago, stingrayPete1977 said:

At some point the Jools Holland and Glastonbury threads will merge. 

 

How many years of complaining about the mix or the acts do people endure before they realise it's not compulsory or legally binding to watch either of them?

 To complete the set, just wait for Eurovision to come around again so people can tell you how many years it has been since they watched. It seems to be very important information for everybody to be aware of 😁

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One day I'd like to get as high as that action 😉

Interesting, it seems to be intonated for a lefty.

Turnstile are about as hardcore as jam spread on soft, white bread with the crust cut off.

They don't appear to have anyting to say, either, unlike the bands Leonard just listed. Lazy journalism mixed with a sad need for categorisation. 

Nice one, thanks.

The bit that tells me this kind of world has left me behind is encapsulated in this review of one of yesterday's headliners

[quote]...rise over the past year has been nothing short of phenomenal and, while fans await her debut album...[/quote]

Not enough material for an album yet but you're headlining a stage at this festival? Must be very good at dancing, I suppose.

There's a disappointing lack of costume chat here. Many reviews of the festival mention how many costume changes each artist does in their set. It's almost as if you snooty musos think such things don't matter.

Don't get me started on the absence of dance chat 

1 hour ago, NancyJohnson said:

Just while we're on the subject of Living Colour, are many/any of you aware about the version of Stain with the alternative guitar solos?

 

The original US CD (catalogue# EK52780) was issued in two versions, one of which was very limited and contained totally different guitar work on Ignorance Is Bliss, Leave It Alone and Bi.  There's no discernable visible difference in the CDs, just the content thereon.  You got lucky or you didn't.

 

I was a huge fan of Living Colour from the outset and bought a copy of Stain when I was in America; there was a bit of a WTAF? moment when realisation struck that the versions were different.

 

Interesting stuff.

Yeah, have been looking for one for years. I bought it on tape when it came out, which had TV News and a live version of Love Rears... on it. When I eventually bought the CD years later, it had neither and sounded incomplete, which is when I started looking at the versions and found out about the guitar solo version. I picked up a version with the tape tracklist but I'm still looking for the solos version 😂
 

On your earlier point, the switch to a darker sound was right up my street. I loved Vivid and Time's Up but Stain added some sonic weight to back up what they were saying socially and politically. It's still an all-time top-10er for me.

No, I think it's exaggeration, like, literally the worst thing in history ever.

Did Henry Juszkiewicz move to Peavey when he was ousted from Gibson? This reeks of a money losing exercise.

If you wouldn't bring a bass into a situation you would put yourself into, you really need to reevaluate your life choices 😁

One of the very best.

Do it. You sound like you want to do it. Possibly there's an expectation you shouldn't which is weighing on you? If someone wants to have a 74 and not touch it, let them buy one. That one is yours. Do as you want with it but, most importantly, play it.

I would have said guitar based rock is a broad enough church to house both but hey ho, no biggie. Anyway, keep an eye out for my next project, SPICEGIRLS!

They should explore a new name to avoid confusion. Gilla Band were formerly called that and released a couple of albums on Rough Trade under that name. Similar genre, too, and the first results in web searches send you to the Gilla lads. It'd be easier for them to do when the profile is lower.

The Ironbird which really grabbed my attention first was Johnny Rod's yellow one, love this bass.

Ah, I remember it being reported as the Ironbird in Kerrang or Metal Hammer at the time. He used the Ironbird for the full set at the show I was at.

1 hour ago, christhammer666 said:

I saw them on that tour, the bass was stolen in Nottingham a few days later, as I recall.

Savage gig, although quite short as it was all of the first album and one song off what would become Legion.

40 minutes ago, HeadlessBassist said:

Agreed re your Stingray, EJWW. The lack of a centre detent on the controls means you can never get the same sound twice.

 

This doesn't really make sense. A passive bass doesn't have detents either, would you say the range of detent-free travel on a Precision tone pot means you can never get the same tone twice?

A two band Stingray has bass boost only, along with treble cut and boost. The way I set them up was to use the grub screw on the knob as a marker. For the bass knob, turn it all the way down, no boost, and have the grub screw pointing straight up, from the playing perspective. Then you know when it's flat and, if you boost, by how much. For the treble knob, I move it to roughly half way, then set the grub screw pointing straight up, from the playing perspective. You're roughly flat, at that point and it's very easy to see whether you're cutting or boosting and by how much. Very simple. FWIW, I would set passive basses up the same way, the grub screw pointing up when the controls are up full, i.e. flat, not cutting. That way you can see very easily how you are set on any bass, passive or active whether you have detents or not.

Yeah, I remember a discussion about the Lynott bass a few years ago. That is sad news.

The R was used on sone Japanese models and some also had complicated switching. I would lean 95% towards it being USA but there would be a little bit of doubt.

Again, varifocal lenses are the answer here, a different prescription for different areas of the lens, no magnifying effect up close at all. Talk to your optician.

Edit -> there's nothing happening here which hundreds of millions of people haven't gone through already. Your optician will be your best source of advice.

I tend to run no EQ on the amp so start with everything flat and adjust to taste for what I'm playing, with no preconceptions of how it "should" be set. It depends on the room, my mood and the song. I use as little as possible to get the sound I'm after and I'm as open to cutting frequencies as I am to boosting. I have a few 2-band EQs on basses, often I will cut both low and high to accentuate the mids.

If the bass sounds great with everything flat, you win, just leave it alone. If it doesn't, then the EQ is there to help you win. In short, let your ears guide you to the sound you're after and don't think you need to boost the bejesus out of everything just because you can.