Doctor J

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.

You're right. Thankfully Draiman and co don't get a cent outisde of mechanicals.

Not so different. Nevermore went for a truly different approach. Disturbed heard it and, years later, used it as a template to make a commercially bombastic version, devoid of any subtlety or feeling, cramming faux emotion down the throat of the listener with all the grace of a wrecking ball and with none of the guile or creativity of Nevermore.

Sweet - Live at the Rainbow 1973 is fantastic

The mutual appreciation society are in session, so: "Gonna use all the ink in your Parker pen and when you get a refill I'll do it again" 😂👌🏻

Thanks, all, I'll have a look around and send something on presently.

Wait... Some Guys Have All The Luck is a cover? 🤯

The 'oo. The muscle of Live At Leeds (or even the Isle of Wight) vs the puny studio albums up to that point is like two different bands. Can't Live Without It by Gang Green is wonderful, with a real energy which the albums don't quite match. Rush in Rio pumps a lot of fire into songs from their tamer 80's material. I wouldn't say If You Want Blood easily outdoes their studio stuff. The likes of Powerage still sound fantastic.

It'd be cool if one of you wore it on a t-shirt at a gig.

Back to Norway... Ondt Blod put on one of the best gigs I have ever seen, had a total Joliet Jake moment, I saw the light.

Sweden for sure: The Wannadies, Europe, The Cardigans, Esbjorn Svensson Trio, Entombed, At The Gates, TSOOL, Opeth, The Hives... Abba?

If you play the drinking game, where when you recognise a situation you've been in during your own musical career, you take a swig, you might as well call in sick for work now and save yourself having to do it tomorrow.

I last watched it a couple of weeks ago, followed by the deleted scenes. It gets fairly regular airings in this house.

Legacy? Stop doing what you enjoy doing to protect the feelings of people who have nothing to do with you?

Incredible work. Fantastic!

Go active. EMGs have much weaker magnets and the preamp in the pickup does the work. That should solve any magnetic pull trouble.

If I want to hear the nuances of Tommy, I can do that at home. I want to experience Live at Leeds, if you get what I mean. I'd rather it raw and genuinely live than an effort to perfectly replicate the recording. For me, live is all about the musical energy and, in the parlance of the young people "living the moment", by both band and audience. I generally don't go to big gigs where you get all the elaborate visual fluff but I do understand why it's done in this day and age. There is a beauty, however, with an adrenaline-fuelled blast through a song 20bpm faster than the original, which gives genuinely live music that something extra. It should be a different experience, filled with flaws and, for want of a better term, humanity.