Doctor J

Bought another bass from Jarek. Again, he was a gent to deal with and another smooth and easy transaction was done. Highly recommended, again!

Jazz knobs put on so the pointer is somewhere near 2 O'Clock to signify fully open. Oh, the humanity!

Wow, what are the pickups?

Time for a dance-off? Well done, all.

Ah cool! I'm glad you enjoyed it! 🙂

I sold it to a guy in Hungary, IIRC. It was a really nice bass but I just wasn't digging the six string thing at the time.

Hostility towards people who buy reissues? What are you talking about?

The commercial exploitation of anything to do with Lemmy has been utterly shameless since his passing.

An open string is essentially fretted at the nut. Indeed, many instruments have a zero fret, therefore every note you hit on a bass is fretted. There is no difference. You're saying that every note with the kind of tapered string technology we use on a bass is imbalanced and I say that's not my experience at all. Again, I'll stress that I used SR2000 strings, where the B, E, A and D string had tapered cores, the G and C strings were "normal" and I did not experience overtones or any tonal anomalies at any point on the fretboard on any string. I am also a pedant when it comes to set-ups, for what it's worth. There are no problems with open or tapered core strings.

I used Dean Markley SR2000 strings on my old sixer. I loved them an experienced no strange overtone or intonation problems.

Please tell me the wife's name was Kay.

I heartily support the OP's right to a negative opinion and the freedom to express it. This is a discussion forum, all opinions are valid. Some perspective required, indeed.

Masked Jackal by Coroner. It made a big impression on me as a young lad and I still love seeing Ron's fingers flying around the fretboard while he sings at the same time.

I voted yesterday and it was ok. It's showing me the current scores now just fine.

A while ago, I realised I was fed up with drum machines, so bought a kit again and re-started learning drums. Of course, after selling my old kit a few years ago I sold all my old mics and outboard gear too. This is my first go at anything with my cheapest-of-the-cheap T-Bone and Behringer replacement gear 😁 When I first looked at the picture, I zoomed in and saw the drummer was called Illegal Al and, well... it stuck. I reckon Illegal Al plays some kind of obnoxious space jazz, of course and you'll be excused for screaming, not that anyone will hear you.

I had a knot in a fingerboard before, it didn't bother me either. In fact, I thought it made the aesthetics more interesting. It had no effect on the functionality so, no problemo.

Windsor Davies?

Maybe he and Rob can play with each other?

Nice!

We were talking about Thomann, no? Thomann charge you the UK VAT rate if you're in the UK, not the German VAT rate. That is all.

Trust me. They apply the local VAT rate depending on the location of the buyer, in line with EU law.

You are definitely, 100%, charged your local tax rate.

Thomann charge you, as a private UK individual, the UK VAT rate. EU law states that VAT is charged at the rate of the country the customer is resident in.

Since they're mentioned in the short gigs thread... albums by Nails don't hang around Abandon All Life - 10 songs - 17 minute Unsilent Death - 10 songs - 13 minutes You Will Never Be One Of Us -10 songs - 21 minutes

I'll shoehorn in one under the term "Mercifully short gigs" - Ian Brown in the Olympia in Dublin, touring his debut solo album Unfinished Monkey Business, refusing to play any Stone Roses material. The second time they played their shambolic cover of Thriller was the clincher. It was over in under an hour, thankfully.