Doctor J

Old musician shares honest personal opinion. Outrage ensues. Clicks = Cash Money.

The blocks are so far off centre you'd have to think they're stickers. Not even on Fender's darkest days did they get it so badly wrong.

Buying the right aftermarket pickup for punk is a detailed and time-consuming process, if you wish to be authentic to the spirit of punk and truly seek to honour the forefathers of the genre. Much chin-stroking consideration lies in your path, as it did theirs.

Bandcamp have been taken over by Songtradr. Can't say I've ever heard of the latter, but I hope it's not the start of a disintegration of the great service they provided. Songtradr, a music licensing platform and marketplace company supporting artists, labels and publishers, and Epic Games, a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology, announced today that Songtradr is acquiring Bandcamp. Songtradr will continue to operate Bandcamp as a marketplace and music community with an artist-first revenue share. Bandcamp is an online music store and community with over five million artists and labels where fans can discover, connect with, and directly support the artists they love. This acquisition will help Bandcamp continue to grow within a music-first company and enable Songtradr to expand its capabilities to support the artist community. Songtradr will also offer Bandcampartists the ability and choice to have their music licensed to all forms of media including content creators, game and app developers and brands. This will enable artists to continue to own and control their music rights, and increase their earning capacity from Songtradr's global licensing network. Epic is exploring ways to partner with Songtradr to build an inventory of music where artists can opt in to have their music licensed for use in Epic's ecosystem. Epic will continue to collaborate with Bandcamp on projects like Fortnite Radio and is investing in Songtradr to support Bandcamp's successful integration into Songtradr. "The acquisition of Bandcamp will help Songtradr continue to grow its suite of services for artists. I'm a passionate musician myself, and artistry and creativity have always been at the heart of Songtradr. Bandcamp will join a team of music industry veterans and artists who have deep expertise in music licensing, composition, rights management, and distribution," said Paul Wiltshire, CEO of Songtradr. "Songtradr shares Epic and Bandcamp's values around ensuring artists are fairly compensated for their work," said Steve Allison, vice president and general manager, store at Epic Games. "Bringing Bandcamp to Songtradr will make it easier for independent artists to connect with creators and developers looking to license their music and enable Epic to focus on its core metaverse, games, and tools efforts."

Indeed. Bring it on 😁

I had hoped to get something done quickly but failed, and have been away for the last couple of weeks getting married to she who is the Doctress. Great selection as usual, peeps 👍🏻

Is this the mid-90's one where the lugs of the jack are soldered directly onto the circuit board and one of the lugs is diagonal to the others? There's a lot more to it than simply being a plastic box. There are very few jacks which fit that without some substantial messing around. WD used to do them but postage was an abomination. I'd try to buy the correct one from EBMM and be spending my time looking at mail forwarding services from the US.

That you were spoiling his view when you held your bright phone screen between his eyes and the stage, perhaps? You make the point that he could have moved to accomodate you and had a perfect view, so surely you accepted you were actually interfering with his concert experience in some way, but you don't seem to think you should have accomodated him and the rest of the people behind him? It sounds like it was a small enough venue, could you have moved to the side or the back to take the video without getting in anyone's way or compromising your video?

Were you holding the phone in front of your face, compromising your view, or up high in the air, compromising the view of all the people behind you?

I need to set up a band called ADULT BEVERAGES

An occasional swoosh across the crowd from a giant blade like the one at the end of Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade should keep the phone-holding hands down.

When I was young I briefly joined a band who were trying to "make it". They had management and label interest and all that crap and I despised every second of it. That scene was not for me. I love music but loathe the business.

Petar is a beast of a drummer and funky as hell when he wants to be.

Even if you could buy it, it wouldn't be cheap. They'd want a big fee. They'd want a biiiiig fee.

Projecting coolness onto my young self, it would be Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion and Watchtower - Energetic Disassembly In reality, it was Now That's What I Call Music 6 and Hits! The Album 3

Sounds like you have. It's very old news https://blabbermouth.net/news/metallica-s-trujillo-assists-pastorius-family-in-recovering-infamous-bass-of-doom https://noisecreep.com/metallica-robert-trujillo-legendary-bass-of-doom/

Yep, Hammett on one side of the stage playing Greeny, Trujillo on the other playing Jaco's Bass of Doom. It's fantastic that both instruments still get played and the music snobs get to gnash their teeth and lament that neither instrument is locked in a safe somewhere, of no use to anyone.

Can you record an example of how it sounds?

He won't have to suffer for long, it'll be over soon enough. After all... Who wants to bid forever?

Perhaps Charlie wanted them to go on like that and they are fulfilling his dying wish?

There's enough spurious information on the packet there to make me walk away. "Our wires are manufactured in the USA" but the strings are Made in Korea. The sham patent trying to copy Elixir pack design. It all screams yellow-pack.

What have you got to lose by installing the original setup and finding out whether or not it works for you?

Whatever Elixir stainless steels cost

Warwick Fortress vibe there too.

Sweet. I'd love to have a go of the MM version of it, with a seperate EQ for each coil.