Doctor J

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.

Tell it to do upbeat electro pop and it is already excellent. Jazz and Metal, not so much. If it improves at the same rate midjourney did at images, however, it will make new bands entirely redundant within a couple of years. The influence of this will be utterly massive. The way I can see it being used is in giving people music as they want it Hey Alexa, play me Morbid Tales-era Celtic Frost with Master of Puppets Hetfield singing Play me Back in Black with Bon Scott singing Play me sad xmas piano ballads with Morrissey singing Play me lots of catchy pop like "Can't Get You Out of My Head" all sung by Grace Jones That kind of thing. It is end times for bands because, let's be honest, the discerning music lover is very much a niche item. Most of the public don't give a sheet where their music comes from, or that it was composed or played by humans.

Everything I bought from Japan came via Japanpost EMS and their service was always excellent, usually took exactly a week to arrive. Bubblewrap the bass in the case, get a box from a shop and post, I say.

Give the people what they want, get paid. Cash money!

Laugh now, but this is the stuff you'll be playing down the Dog and Scrote in a couple of years https://app.suno.ai/song/b0e6be87-e9d1-4c18-8a55-aaed6d97f0d3/

Is the push/pull an active bypass and, if so, have you replaced the battery?

Dress up as sailors and call it "Aye aye, M80's!"

Pop Won't Play Itself

Pwllheli Sound Machine

Get the string off and you should be able to push it back in with your finger, enough for the screw to catch. You won't be able to do it with string tension acting on the gear which is pushing the shaft out.

That you've started a thread about it suggests you see the red flags flapping but think/hope someone might come along and tell you it's actually ok to ignore the flapping red flags? flap flap flap We see them, too, even from here 😉 flap flap flap

Mullet the blues guy

Atheist in Whelans. It's just Kelly and a bunch of young hired goons, these days, but they are absolutely superb young hired goons. Note perfect, sublime stuff. Between this and Cynic last week, March has surpassed any reasonable expectation of quality giggage.

Gin Excess The Old Men of Summer The Loss Boys Power Shoulders Total Recall 80's

Steinberger detuner bridge for headed basses

I love playing bass but find fretted bass to be a mediocre solo instrument, no matter who's playing it. Fretless allows much more subtlety and it works in the hands of some players. Sonically, to me, fretted just sounds unsuited to a lot of the emotive kind of things you hear a lot of players attempting. Too metallic, too noisy, just not pleasant to the ear. I get taken out of the music by the unsuitable characteristics of the instrument. The same piece of music played on certain other instruments usually sounds so much better. I appreciate the technical ability of the players, but it's just something which doesn't hold any interest for me as a music listener. Bass, as an ensemble instrument, however, locking in with some drums is manna from heaven.

I knew a classical flautist, years ago, who couldn't get their head around the idea of composing their own music and, in particular, improvisation. She was quite excellent at her instrument whereas, in the band I was in at the time, writing our own stuff and improvising were completely natural to us, it seemed like the kind of thing every musician would just instinctively know and do, but not so. When I'm writing music, I usually hear everything, all the instruments and melodies. The process of making a real song out of it frequently becomes a tedious chore, as taking it out of my head and into the real world often involves lots of compromise because my ability to play the required instrumentation and manipulate my voice, in particular, frequently doesn't match what I think the music requires. I have to work hard to get rid of the pre-conceived idea and work at something I can actually do and record in real life.

Lovely. I always wanted to try one of the Milan basses. I have one of the very short lived Tony Iommi signature guitars from that era, based on the Vienna model, a fantastic thing. I managed to visit the facotry in Coventry around 1996, a dream factory, for sure. They knew what they were doing, so I'm sure that bass is superb.

I would be thankful it wasn't covered in piss.

Ahh don't you see? It's his version of a Lace Sensor!!! He has science by the throat!