Doctor J

Yeah, anything goes. Thanks for listening.

"Greatness" is not a diarrhoea splatter of notes and no greatness was illustrated in the video so, yes, if a root note showed their musical ability better then it would have been more appropriate.

Thankfully, we are blessed to have kind souls among us who will quote us, make a minor edit to our text and say "Fixed!" in a patronising way which is never, ever as irritating as a painful rectal itch.

I went through the first view and the clips he selected are everything I dislike about electric bass. Impressive. I will compile a list of my top 25 greatest of all time "greatest bassist of all time" lists.

I see what you did there

It's utterly stupid. If he had the treble pickup sided closer to the neck, instead of the bass side pickup, he'd have a much more even tonal palette.

I got some nachos and went to the main stage to see Twisted Sister.

I bought a set of pickups from Quent. Despite the unforeseen extra grief involved in posting abroad, Quent was a gent to deal with throughout with excellent communication and the pickups arrived superbly packaged. An all-round top man. Thanks!

I thought the Metro Express had some generic EQ and not an actual Sadowsky unit?

He should... take it easy

Get some aluminium tape from screwfix and run a thin strip around the bit of the ferrule which isn't quite snug enough.

Many an ankle will crack like a dried twig.

Print up a load of flyers and hand them out at gigs at that venue over the next few weeks, like the old days.

I like Never Say Die. It is unfairly maligned, in my opinion.

You can get one in Japan in the mid 80's 😵‍💫 Seriously though, try Ishibashi's u-box, ebay Japan, that kind of thing. This doesn't look like anything which has been in production in the last 35 years. They look like Aria pickups alright, though I've never seen that model before. The bridge saddles look Aria too.

Jackson bought Charvel in the late 70's, they've been one entity under different logos since then with many shared models, usually Jackson made in USA and Charvel made in Japan. When FMIC bought Jackson, they got the Charvel brand too. When Fender bought Jackson, the market for pointy guitars was on its arse, but for a small core following. The pointy stuff is still not huge business but they're shifting loads of Fender derived designs, under the Charvel name, which would be just too radical, despite the traditional styling, for the average Fender customer.

Ahhh, how I miss the days when people just played what they liked instead of trying to adhere to aesthetic stereotypes. Anyway, Jackson are owned and made by Fender, have been for over a decade. It's another rehashed Jazz-a-like made by the people who bought the rights to the original Jazz designs. It's a Fender, basically, just they use a different decal when they make subtle design variations which would have the Fender cultists knocking pomade onto their zoot suits. We can all sleep easy tonight 😉

Carpet? Luxury. Jaco only needed lino.

Well, they used to be black at both ends when I tried them and found they were not for me 😉

Elites were black silk wound, no?

I had a 2000 US strat where the finish on the neck started to crack and peel before it was even a year old. As I had bought it new, they replaced the neck under warranty but the new neck felt nothing like the old neck and played substantially worse, too. I could never get it to set up like the old neck, despite them being the same series made one year apart. It was junk. It made me a lot more open to exploring other brands and, as it turned out, finding the grass actually was a lot greener elsewhere.

Social media is society's cess pit. The very worst of human personality flaws are allowed to flourish and grow there without any kind of consequence and, as a result, it just gets worse and worse. Do yourself a huge favour and remove yourself from it, forget it exists.

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Absolutely.