Doctor J

Just don't play it the Soft Cell way. Give it the same treatment Devo gave I Can't Get No Satisfaction.

Hey, let's not start knocking Counterparts because that's just wrong wrong wrong

Bernard was the man, exceedingly gifted without a trace of self indulgence.

Grand Wazoo has posted exactly the two videos I would have posted My very first memory in life is listening to my mum's Absolutely Free and We're Only In It For The Money records and probably the reason why anything goes, musically, in my brain (apart from jazz-funk). Call Any Vegetable was a big hit with the three year old me and it still is. Invocation And Ritual Dance Of The Young Pumpkin is still one of my favourites, almost at the same level as King King, just brilliant. Hot Rats would probably be my absolute favourite album, definitely a desert island disc if I had to make that choice. I would urge everyone to give this twenty minutes of their lives, at least once [flash]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PhkCRTK2jQ[/flash]

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1335518630' post='1632401'] But then when they do introduce something a little different. It doesn't sell so they take it out off production. they only sell what people want and when it comes to Fender people only buy the same old designs.. [/quote]The Stingray and L2000 shift decent numbers to this day and are wisely regarded as classic designs, like their ancestors. If you put out something good and worthwhile which fills a space in the market (rather than tries to fit into an already crowded area), chances are it will sell. Oh, wait, you mean the half-assed stuff FMIC put where you struggle to see who exactly they're trying to sell to? I don't buy the argument that only Luddites buy Fender and so the big F must pander to their never changing whim. There is plenty of goodwill out there for Fender, that's clearly how they get away charging that kind of money for their US instruments but consider all their reissues - do you ever think you'll see the day there'll be an 80's or 90's reissue Jazz or P, like there are 60's and 70's? Why? Because they stopped being creative when FMIC bought the rights. They haven't [i]seriously[/i] tried to do anything new other than repackage the same old stuff (the odd sig model deviation excepted). What interesting and creative design have they released since 1983 other than the Roscoe Beck? They haven't sold, not because people aren't interested in something new with a Fender logo on it, it's because most of them have been pretty crap designs.

I'd say they don't have enough models. Everything they do is based on two models which are designs over 50 years old really, with an increasingly scattergun approach to parts and colours and they call [i]that[/] a new model. It's sad. When you contrast the innovation and daring of the man himself against the FMIC sham just churning out the same old stuff in his name, cheaper made but with ever increasing price tags, it's a sorry state of affairs.

Save another hundred quid or so and get a "real" Stingray from the FS section here

The nub of it is that he needs to get his setup together and he needs to do this in his own time. There's no harm using effects, but two hours is not acceptable, even thirty minutes is not acceptable.

Video this. Send him two hours of video of him setting up. Also, record your rehearsals and send him audio. Advise him that, if he wants to keep the pedals, he should get a pedalboard and set it up properly in his own time, then arrive on time and plug his guitar in one end and the amp in the other and be ready to go. If that doesn't work then you and the drummer show up two hours late and ask him if he's ready when you get in.

Don't care. I have rosewood, maple, wenge and ebony fretboards and, for me, the shape of the neck as a whole matters more than what the frets have been hammered into. Once it sounds good, feels good and looks good I just don't care what it is and all are perfectly capable of meeting those criteria. Most people can't tell one from the other with their eyes closed.

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1335190230' post='1626915'] Alot of people on here, from what they say anyway, would only have one if they had millions of quid, fine by me, but I'd have shitloads!!! [/quote]Amen!

[quote name='The Dark Lord' timestamp='1335186389' post='1626840'] I have three. Two Precisions, a Jazz and a Warwick. [/quote]Eh, I'm no mathematician, but isn't that four?

You and thousands of other bands are thinking the same thing. How about The Smiths' [i]The Queen Is Dead [/i]instead?

It's not on the album, artistically, let's put it that way It's like Easy on the later versions of Angel Dust. It's not an album track, not supposed to be there if you care about the artistic vision behind it all, just a shameless biz ploy to boost sales. Down with this kind of thing

That's only twenty four, that's not too many. If you can afford them and you enjoy playing them then have as many as you want. If you're not playing them and just hoarding, then you're a bad person and you shall be smoten from above. But, if you play them, thumbs up.

My sister went to see him, her overriding impression was that he needs a good wash and a long stint in rehab. Mrs. Robinson wasn't on the album, so I can understand them not playing it.

Lemon oil will be just fine, i've used it on a blocked and bound fretboard before without any problems.

The funky one at the start of his nervous breakdown [flash]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXpsOylosV0[/flash] [flash]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5QtRbcrKjo[/flash]

Very nice indeed.

Good beard too.

Yes, you'll pay import duty and VAT on anything you buy from outside the EU, it should have to go through customs once it arrives in the UK, this is nothing to do with the seller, just the way international trade works. Factor about 25% onto whatever you're paying for the bass,it'll be no more than that. You'll have to pay the postie cash when he arrives with it. If the sums look good with this factored in then go for it. Sometimes they slip through the net and there's no customs charge (which you would then declare, of course ) but don't bank on it. There are some great basses at great prices over there, even with The Man getting his cut.

Yep, bought a good few from Japan, most recently last week. What do you need to know?

COF are three pounds of sh*te in a two pound bag, however.

Ghost are very consciously going for a classic rock rather than a metal sound, overdriven guitars rather than distorted. Give it a bit of time, I hated them at first but I think the album is actually pretty catchy. It's a cheese-fest lyrically but even so I've grown to like them and the scooby doo imagery

Yup, done it for years, to the point I find it almost uncomfortable to use those crazily sharp edges on your average fretboard. Someone call health and safety! I use a small flat file to to the basic rounding and then a couple of fine grades of sandpaper to smooth the whole thing. I do both sides though, for tone.