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Doctor J

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Paraboo-fluorescent-Stickers-beautiful-decoration/dp/B077FJGMDC
  4. Clearly a lefty cymbal set
  5. 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
  6. 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?
  7. Oranges are tasty.
  8. Dreadful. Utterly dreadful, but at least they can tour for another couple of years before anyone notices.
  9. 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.
  10. 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?
  11. 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
  12. "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.
  13. Nice 🤘
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Thoughts and prayers for any of the young people whose life this is the soundtrack to.
  17. 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
  18. It should be on the neck plate.
  19. Isn't it clear?
  20. Not quite the complete picture. Add shipping and then calculate the VAT and import duty on that figure. Bottom line is anything bought in the EU from the UK is now 25% more expensive than market value and vice-versa.
  21. It's not pay-to-play, it's pay-to-possibly-be-put-on-a-list-to-be-considered-maybe-for-a-support-slot
  22. One they hopefully never have the money to record.
  23. It's country music, the artist is supposed to be broke and miserable.
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