Doctor J

I do love them but I may leave the old t-shirt at home for a while, had a few people come up to the stage to take photos of it during the last gig I played wearing it

We're through to the semi-final of the Irish part. 30 minutes isn't a whole lot of time when you're playing low tempo doomy stuff. We were told the sets would be 20 minutes but, a couple of days beforehand, they bumped it up to 30 so we added one extra song

Josh Klinghoffer out, Nile Rodgers in. Now let's see if tjey can get the funk back.

If you enjoy it, at least give it some timw with the new guy. It might be worth talking to the current guy, see if a break would suffice. Find out what's eating at him and see if something can be done to take away some of it. As Kate Bush advised Peter Gabriel, "Don't give up"

That pic really had me stumped for a while, wasn't quite what I was expecting, considerably more summery I've got something brewing now, need to digest it for a while, see if I can do anything like what I'm hearing in my head

Hearty congratulations, Douglas!

Get a cup of tea and spend the next half hour chuckling away http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ussbf8hJKSA Great man.

A very funny fella. RIP.

It's getting tense now, just one more vote needed to swing it

This one?

[quote name='jezzaboy' timestamp='1454013828' post='2965529'] Leo got it right with the P bass. [/quote] Yeah, but [i]which[/i] P bass? There were already three versions by 1957.

Fair enough FWIW I'm not offended by that either

You didn't and, even if you did, don't worry about it. It's a discussion forum, it's ok for people to experience thoughts which conflict with their own. Could you put up the gist of the original post, as someone in their 40's now playing in a band which contains a couple of young 'uns I'd be interested to see what started this

It's Ishibashi's second hand store, big Japanese retailer and very trustworthy in my experience. The price in brackets is what you'd pay, being outside Japan. Last time I bought from them it was just over €100 for postage and then the usual import duty fun when it arrived.

24 of them up there at the moment

Don't know of a dealer but there are usually a few second hand ones knocking around on the u-box. Ishibashi are great to deal with. Import it yourself, easy peasy. http://www.ishibashi.co.jp/u_box/e/ And, yes, Jerry Barnes is responsible for Z gas here too

Is the idea there for a reason? Do you have other basses you enjoy more? If so, move it on, I say.

I much prefer composing and recording to gigging. I still gig regularly but it has never been the be-all and end-all and never will. That being said, I've no real interest in cover music where gigs are pretty much the sole purpose of existence. I've done stints in mate's cover bands when they've been down a member but it wasn't my thing at all and my stints were relatively brief. The creative side is where I get my kicks. I can see the market for covers shrinking but not disappearing. There are so many entertainment alternatives these days which don't involve punters going out in the rain, etc, and even pubs don't have the allure they used to. Youth culture isn't built around pubs and bands anymore.

Yeah, I read a lot of the negative comments, mostly on talkbass, before buying it and I just don't get the hostility. As a few chunks of wood shaped into an instrument, it's near flawless - light, resonant, balances well and takes a setup very well. As a passive bass, it's a great J bass. Ok, the active system is different to the norm but, once you get how it works and that everything up full is bad, it's easy to get a variety of great meaty tones out of it. They're priced very reasonably at the moment, too. A lost classic, IMO.

Necrobump. Just sharing the love for these quite underrated beasts. I picked this one up last year and it really is a very nice bass in every aspect. Although it is just a V-V-T setup with a switchable preset EQ curve, it really responds well to minor tweaks of the controls. There are a whole load of sweet tones in there and it plays like the proverbial b*****d..

Two very distinctive and very attractive guitars there, nice one.

I thought Fender had gone as far as they could with their design team having no ideas left other than to jumble up bits and pieces of various guitars and come out with something new, but I suppose they're more resourceful than I give them credit for. Fender Tele Offset really is the twang of the bottom of the barrel being scraped. No, wait, they can still drag it out for another few years by offering "new" colours. I can't help but imagine a FA Cup style draw, complete with numbered balls and black velvet bag. "22 - that's a Jazzmaster body" "14 - that's a Telecaster neck, drawn away for the first time in three seasons" "15 - is the cupset on? That's the telecaster electronics package" "INTERN! Whip that up in Photoshop, stat! Good work, team. See you next September"

That GG is stunning, genuinely stunning.

Very kind words. Thanks, Douglas, for taking the time to go through all the tracks so thoroughly.

Likewise. There's such an impressive diversity between all the music submitted, considering the inspiration came from the same pair of pictures.