Doctor J

Wait until Eurovision time comes, there'll be a very long queue of folks quite desperate for everyone to know just how long they haven't watched it for and how they have no interest in it, no interest at all, none. I like a lot of prog rock, less interest in videos about prog rock, however, as prog rock is quite long enough on its own as it is and I have only so many years of my life left.

It's worth bearing in mind that lots of doom bands play Ric 4001 or 4003, beyond the point of it being cliché, who don't have this trouble and those Rics are 33.25" scale. An extra inch isn't a silver bullet.

Worst gig, for sure, Ian Brown in Dublin touring his first solo album. It's a short album, he was headlining and refusing to play Stone Roses material. I should have seen it coming. He filled 60 miserable minutes with every song on the album played appallingly, Aziz Ibrahim and his giant ego doing his best to look like the guitar hero he will never be and they even played a truly dreadful cover of Thriller twice. Worst of all was seeing all the goons in bucket hats going around saying "mun-ches-tuuuuuuh!" ad nauseam. I really don't do justice to how genuinely terrible it was, not at all. Honourable mention to Limp Bizkit on some NME tour about 10+ years ago. Three ridiculously bad support bands (one had a guy dressed as a goblin, another was a Japanese band with Simpsonesque Choco robot hour seizure-inducing strobes which lasted the entire show. Then LB came on, were utter shite and I left when they started their second Nirvana cover. Thankfully, I've been to so many great gigs it's hard to choose but one that sticks out, probably because it's reasonably recent, is Therapy? in Hamburg a few years ago. I saw a few of my favourite bands (Killing Joke and Voivod to name two) were playing sequential nights there, so went over for a week, by myself as none of my mates would come, and went to a gig every night. Therapy? were the final gig. I had a Joliet Jake experience (see the light, vibrate from back of hall to front of hall) during Norwegian support band Ondt Blod, who were just incredible and Therapy? were sublime too. It capped a great week of music in the best possible way.

A string retainer which brings some level of consistency to the break angle of all strings over the nut. Why Fender etc. persist with the A string having a substantially lesser angle over the nut than the other strings, for whatever reason, is one of the minor mysteries of life.

This is why we can be the most boring people in the world when we play people songs we love. You're playing the soundtrack to your life, the music which you associate with major moments in your history and it means nothing to them 😁

It wouldn't change the fact that Blues is their surname only 😁

I am continually amazed by how many people have learned to live with crap setups. Any instruments I've bought used usually come with ludicrously high action, starting at the nut and working all the way down the neck.

Nope, some manufacturers have both cores in one wire, others run two separate wires. Just depends on the manufacturer.

My old Hamer has an EMG humbucker in there. It growls. It growls good.

Your hot is inside the white sleeve. The earth is the currently exposed copper.

That's a very genre-dependent generalisation 🙂

If you were sent a tuner that is not 1/2" then demand the shop take it back and send you the correct one. You ordered a 1/2" tuner, you don't have a 1/2" tuner, it is up to the shop to sort it out. Do you have the packaging it came in? What does that say?

Would you not consider an Ibanez? You seem fond of the Willis bass. Ibanez have over 30 years of expertise in building 6 strings and the Japanese stuff is always toq quality.

I suspect Nilorius is thinking 34" scale B-B sixer, not a Bass VI.

Unless someone travels back in time to get them to make one in 1963, I'd say it's very unlikely.

Besides, they advertise themselves as a rhythm and blues revue... for your dancing pleasure 😁

Not all of it

This thread should be written phonetically in Geordie so Blue gets a real taste.

Don't waste your money on a neck, just get a string appropriate for that kind of pitch. I use a .145 for A and occasional dropped G on a 34" scale jazz bass. https://www.amazon.de/dp/B000OR75QQ/ref=pe_27091401_487027711_TE_SCE_dp_1

It'll be quite the logistics challenge to recall all copies of this recording and replace it with a perfect one. Still, it'll be worth the effort after allowing this to ruin people's enjoyment of the song for the last 45 years.

I'm sure somewhere there's a crestfallen civil servant asking "All I want is these bastids to pay their tax, is that too much to ask?

Not quite. The honest declaration of the final destination should be made by the sender and, in this case, any tariffs should be collected upon arrival in NI. Welcome to the complexities of the NI Protocol.

It's time to rock again. Rock > Ramp.

Later used to be fantastic. The first few series had some wonderful performances and a great mix of musical styles. They might not all be to your taste but surely that was the idea? Any time I have seen it in the last 10 years or even longer, I can't recall seeing anything which did anything for me. It might be that my tastes no longer accommodate most contemporary music... or... it could be, as I have suspected for a while, that new music is generally terrible and it's not me at all! 😁

Love KJ, there are tasty basslines through their entire career. I've a soft spot for the last three albums. The Great Cull is very enjoyable to romp through, the less subtlety you play with, the better.