Doctor J

Wow, you and Liz Truss are really close

Austr-ape-lia by the Manics?

Not even a Tesco supermarket!

A valve amp might need to be cranked far beyond domestic volume levels before it really gets going and sounding good. Not valved, but you should check out the Boss Katana range. They're very highly rated and work well at lower volumes, though I've even seen people gig them at festivals, there's very decent distorted sound out of them, plus a pile of effects.

Sure there is, a bass both with and without a headstock

If they had that strat headstock on the bass necks, I'd wager they'd shift a lot more units.

A couple of other current projects

If it's not here I wouldn't buy it, especially if the price is "reasonable" https://www.seymourduncan.com/products/pickups/bass/jazz-bass

I love James, fantastic band.

In that case, this would be a good place to start 🙂 https://www.basschat.co.uk/forum/95-share-your-music/

When pretend wear and tear cuts too deep

Bronze medallist at the last World Championships. She's got a lot of natural ability, but she really needs to work on her seeking.

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EBMM Silhouette SUB, I would guess.

Woodlines are/were Japan handmade. Woodline just meant passive. The Standards were active. Top one here is a Woodline which I lopped a Sadowsky pre into, most definitely Japanese.

Home carve & refin? Or replacement body given the neck screws aren't in the regular spot either?

I tried to migrate from iTunes to Apple Music last week and will never make that mistake again. A horrible experience, trying to weed out what I don't want from it to get to what I do. A few years ago, I decided on a policy where I bought a phone with a very large storage capacity and keep all the music I've bought over the years on that. Sod streaming (not one of them pays a decent rate, it's not just Spotify), sod radio, sod algorithms, I'll choose the music I want to listen to as and when I want to listen to it. Use Picky on the phone, iTunes at home (or the original CD or record) and buy from Bandcamp when I want something new. No fuss, no muss.

Can you upload a picture of the head and strings by the tunings pegs? I've never heard of two strings go like that before. Did you manually wrap the slack around the tuning peg by hand or did you turn the tuning key fully from slack? 5 winds is a lot. If you loop them around the tuner by hand, you introduce twists to the core. Generally I would cut maybe 2" past the post, insert the end into the hole in the middle of the tuner and turn the key with one hand, while keeping tension by hand so the string wraps tight around the post with little or no slack, always feed the wrap under the previous wrap, max 3 wraps in total. I've never had a breakage.

Sorry to break it to you, but that is already happening today.

I wonder, given his company's increasing penchant for injecting AI generated "content" into playlists, if that is what he is referring to, rather than five lads in a recording studio laying it down on tape, maaaan, or the youtuber types with their army of editors and the like, and this is just hysterical offence being taken by those who despise how his company has contributed to making music almost worthless (myself included)? I read his original comment as making much more sense when applied to the likes of Tiktok or AI stuff than a Tool album.

Some of the new stuff I've heard recently... yeah, I mean... in a way, I can see his point 🤷🏻‍♂️