Doctor J

Just don't buy it. They're too old too come to your house and force you to listen to it, anymore.

I offered to buy it off him when he first put the ad up. He had agreed to ship it abroad but then told me he'd wait a while to see if he got any local buyers first. Also, there are quite a few cracks around the output jack which isn't made clear in the pictures in the ad. It would have sold on day one but these two things made me walk away.

The keyboardist can also conceal their uncoolness under their cape.

The most uncool thing possible, even if done ironically.

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Just because it's a band, it doesn't mean you can't behave like a grown up. I don't think I've ever fallen out with any members of any of my many former bands (first band was in 1990 so have been in quite a few over the years) and a lot of my friends now are people I've met through being in a band with them. I did lose a singer halfway through a gig, he just walked off stage and straight out the door, didn't pass go, but that got smoothed over quickly enough. Yeah, be an adult and communicate openly and it'll all be grand. Life is too short for spending time with emotionally stunted people.

A lot of blues utilises different tunings, often open D and open G. Joni Mitchell used "Nashville" tuning a fair bit too on her guitar-based stuff. I quite like dropped A in standard tuning, ie AADGBE, it's fun to mess around in.

Everybody will agree, I'm sure, that the greatest of all the bubbles was a chimpanzee. Join the King of Pop's ghost on his journey through the nine circles of hell, trying to find his old pal. The technical stuff, generally the same as usual, Yamaha drums through t-bone mics into a Behringer pre. Bass is an ESP 400 Series tuned AEAD into an Avid Eleven. Guitar is an Ibanez RG into a Fryette amp into a Palmer speaker emulator, tuned to a dropped A - AADGBE. Synths are in Reason, voice is Talkany and it's mixed in Protools.

There's always Orbital goggles

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Paraboo-fluorescent-Stickers-beautiful-decoration/dp/B077FJGMDC

Clearly a lefty cymbal set

You need to show the neck pocket. Measure the width. The Schecter has a fretboard extension which is covering the important bit, how the butt of the neck fits the neck pocket. See the standard Fender shape and dimensions here and compare to what you have. https://warmoth.com/bass-neck-fit

Perhaps if they tried something which offered a reason to buy it, a unique selling point, something like that. What was the point of the Dimension, what did it do that hundreds of other basses don't already do?

Oranges are tasty.

Dreadful. Utterly dreadful, but at least they can tour for another couple of years before anyone notices.

It's a bit of a gamble, for sure, getting the good stuff. When it comes to... ehhh... mint Streetwood, you've got to ask yourself one question: “Do I feel lucky?” I hear they're good for punk.

A taut string is basically a straight line. Hold the E string down at the first fret and last fret and observe the gap between the bottom of the string and the tops of the frets along the neck. Repeat the process on the treble side with the G string. Do you notice any difference between the two sides?

You don't need a 5-string to try a longer scale, the Yamaha TRBii is a 35" scale 4 string and would be well under your budget. I can't say a noticed a huge difference when I had one and am back using a 34" scale ESP jazz tuned ADGC. edit -> bear in mind the patron saint of low tuning (and many of his flock) uses a 33.25" scale Rickenbacker

"Dear Customer" If your name isn't specified, stick it in the bin. Edit -> Now that I've read the rest of it, tell them to keep the money and spend it on English lessons.

Nice 🤘

No. Like any large scale manufacturer they have diversified production locations to accommodate different budgets. There are plenty of Japanese models still, their high-end offerings like Prestige and J-Custom and are, generally, exceptionally well conceived and designed instruments.

I love the colour but the pickup move is an abomination. Aside from the fugly black rectangle, the pickup positioning is the great thing about the Passion.

Thoughts and prayers for any of the young people whose life this is the soundtrack to.

Interesting. Loose Lips were from California too, according to this, and their singer was in another band called The Rip-Offs 🤷🏻‍♂️ http://grunnenrocks.nl/bands/l/looselips.htm