Doctor J

Great work, Bart, I'm enjoying these and I'm not a huge RHCP fan by any means.

Loving that Gretsch, great work 👍

If the the finish just wore away as the result of you playing it, that’s not relic’ing, that’s real and honest wear and tear 🙂 Relic’ing is fake wear intentionally applied to achieve the effect of looking aged when, in truth, it’s not old or worn at all.

What I enjoy most about these things is the "mistakes" - the fluffed notes, loose timing and scuzzy tone which should teach us all to never let the quest for perfection get in the way of playing with passion and personality.

Is Scott the one trying to sell you the underwear?

Use Firefox in private mode as your browser and install the adblock plus plug-in. Don’t sign into anything google own unless you have to and, if you have to, restart your browser after you are done with them.

Click the “sound on, please” text. Your browser is blocking the content, like mine.

There's lots of harm but where are the lodics?

I’ve never heard Careless Whisper interpreted in such an individual way before.

A couple of things to bear in mind about old Aria SBs is, firstly, the ones with fretboard dots tend to have incredibly narrow string spacing at the bridge, which may or may not be acceptable. Secondly, there is a problem with a lot of the old MB pickups where one of the coils dies, meaning your E and A or D and G strings don’t get heard. Since the pickups are epoxy sealed they cannot be repaired. Aaron Armstrong makes a replacement which is the right size and shape but it doesn’t sound anything like the originals. I’d second the L1000. It’s a beast with the pickup in the right place but also comfortably the most versatile single pickup passive bass out there.

I don’t want to be around when they spend 7 years in D minor, the saddest of all keys.

Agreed. Given the eagerness of many to cast stones, releasing B-stock this early is mystifying.

That’s hardly Warwick’s fault, or an eff up, they designed it.

Another thing?

Oooh, adjust-a-nuts

He had pretty much removed himself as a player from Echobrain, who were winding down, before he joined Voivod. He did double duty on Ozzfest tour, doing the Voivod set and then playing Ozzy’s set afterwards. This video is well worth watching for anyone who hasn’t seen it.He goes into the bullying and Hetfield’s objection to him having side projects (he had projects with Andreas from Sepultura and Tom Hunting from Exodus before Echobrain and even guests on a track on Sepultura’s Against album) and Echobrain was the clincher. Great player, he doesn't get as much credit as he should because he plays with a plec but, on the first F&J album in particular, he is a beast, before Metallica squeezed the life out of him.

Yeah, the first Chic album (Dance, Dance, Dance. Strike Up The Band, Everybody Dance) was a P , after that it was the Stingray. I recall an anecdote from John Taylor where he had borrowed Bernard's Stingray (possibly the first Power Station album?) and came in one day to be horrified to discover one of the studio hands, seeing how old the strings were, cut them off and restrung it. John, naturally, went ballistic.

"Weller's got this much talent."

Find something Stingrayish with flats and you'll be there quicker than you can click your heels three times.

A 4-way tie! This needs more votes!

The Rising by Bruce Springsteen, a wonderfully mixed and balanced song.

Whatever about what’s not there, ranking Another One Bites the Dust higher than Good Times is... ehhh... perverse, let’s say.

Nice bass, but maybe take a pic of the other side of the box without your phone number and address on it?