Doctor J

I'm really enjoying this. I've never tried to write a song in this way before, with the random/surreal imagery as a starting point. It's quite fun and the deadline is the kick in the hole I tend to need. I have most of the music done. I'm going to try lyrics and singing on this. It may backfire, but I reckon it's worth a try, see how it goes. There's a while to go before a desperate rush to turn it into an instrumental begins

Protest And Survive - Discharge The Right Stuff - NKOTB Informer - Snow As The Worm Turns - FNM

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1451650076' post='2942037'] I don't think I have explained it well, but question is, has anyone done this, started up a project knowing it wont have an easy audience to target, but just for the music and fun of doing something different (different for those involved at least) [/quote] As I read the first post all I could think was "[i]This is what it's like for every original band[/i]" - maybe that's not what you're after but it might be worth considering? The thrills, both high and lows, are seldom equalled when you're living and dying on the strength of music you've pulled from the ether. Plus, your direction is entirely up to you, the policy is what you make it.

Repeat listening. Actually listening, paying attention, not just having the music on while your mind travels other dimensions. Find details in the songs, fills or words or melodies and amticipate them each listen. You'll get better at recognising scales and pitch changes by ear with time and, once you genuinely know the song in general, it'll all start falling into place.

I have the basis of something down, may even try singing. Then again, that might not be nice at all.

11. Could be worse. I didn't bring shame to my village.

Are you sure they're not giant butterflies but, instead, tiny people? Ahhhhhh.

Why don't they just fly on the backs of the butterflies? It makes no sense.

Looks like the beeb is having trouble again this morning

Amazing looking bass, hope your brother is alright.

With any PJ setup, I find I always have to have the bridge J a lot closer to the strings than the P. Set the height according to the output, not with your eyes. Were it me, I'd go with a volume-blend-tone setup, I prefer that to VVT or Volume-Tone and a three-way switch.

That's really nice, you don't see too many four string version of that bass.

Put them in with the recycling material

One thing about the neck dive when sitting down, do you play with the bass lower when you stand? The best bit of advice I ever heard was in a Billy Sheehan video from the 80's where he said that he set the strap length so that the bass was at the same height whether he sat or stood. I've done that ever since and leave the strap on whether I'm sitting or standing so you get the benefit of the strap stopping neck dive even while you're sitting.

Very cool. I really like the truss rod cover. As you said, it's the little details.

2015 was a bit of a surprise year, all things considered. I had given up on bands and gigging and was quite content just recording music at home. To end the year in a band, gigging on guitar has shifted the goalposts somewhat. For 2016 I have a few goals, primary among them is to write some new material for the band and get recoding with them. I have about 50 non-band related songs in various stages of composition and recording. I want to finish a lot of them. My work ethic for the last couple of years has been, frankly, shameful. I started recording some of them seven or eight years ago and then drift onto something else, never completing a lot of them. To that end, I want to participate in every month's composition challenge, get back into the habit of writing and completing sings. Other thsn that, the goal is to have a good time all of the time.

Well, that's rather tasteful. Nicely done.

He was one of a kind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91QIMu9CVrI

2-record version of Are You Experienced and some socks... which I shall play bass in.

Thanks. I really, really like it. I wanted to get the Lo-Z pickups and 2 band pre so was specifically hunting for the LE. I much prefer them to the AFR and vari-mid setup which came shortly after. It's almost Warwick-like in tone, has a lot of the same growl with a slightly bigger low end and slightly tamed high end. It's still a slim neck but it's much more substantial than the mid 90's wenge necked SR I used to have, quite round at the back and very comfortable. Overall it's really light too. I'm quite chuffed.

You just don't see suits of that quality at all these days

I've seen the headstock shape before so I had a quick sniff through the u-box to see if they had one, thought it might be a Bossa. While there, I found the greatest brand name ever. Up yours, Fender, I want one of these. I realise this doesn't help in the slightest. You could try searches on some of the Japanese retail sites, sort by highest price first. There are a few videos of her out there but nothing I could find showed the headstock up close [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iknTtc54f0U[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e7MHe42c3w[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CeTnbliiY8[/media]

I recently picked up this 89 SR800LE, it's quite black indeed.

There's no such thing as hair metal, just a silly term applied long after the bleached and pouffed ones had bought flannel shirts. Therefore, Death Metal for life!

Lovely stuff, sone very rare birds in that pic. Sarzos and Peaveys in general are desperately overlooked. I picked up this one earlier this year on a local site, low price but there was just no interest in it. It's interesting reading people's comments on the inspirations for it. To my ears, there's a real MM vibe from the pickups making me think he looked to his old Sabre for the tone, the SB for the looks. Great bass for the money they go for, cost less than a second hand Mexi P. [Img]https://docjgear.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/pv1.jpg" class="ipsImage" /> [Img]https://docjgear.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/pv4.jpg" class="ipsImage" />