Doctor J

Michael Kiske 😉

The Contortionist are really good. Their last two albums, Language and Clairvoyant are worth investigating. From the sunny UK, give Derange a spin too. I like them a lot.

I thought The X Factor was massively underwhelming when it came out until I heard Man On The Edge played live, I think it was on Ray Cokes' show on MTV at the time. Unshackled from the lifeless production on the album, the rough live mix was full of fire and energy and showed there was nothing particularly wrong with the song or the singer. Blaze wuz robbed.

I've been dabbling with the post-reunion albums over the last few days but, today, went with SIT and SSOASS. Two mighty albums. I love the production of SIT.

Nice. Although custom painted-to-match scratchplates, red for the white one and white for the red one, would be creepily cool, like those parents who dress all their kids up in the same outfit.

Let's sort it out in the ring. My money is on the Hulkster

Just a word of caution when it comes to other brand's coated strings - Elixir own the patent on coating the finished string as a whole which is what stops your biocrud getting into the winds which makes the string go dead. The other brands coat the outer wrap and then wind it onto the string which is largely useless, in my experience, having wasted money on D'Addario and Warwick's coated offerings.

Wow. He deleted stuff which is even worse than the stuff in this thread. Is that even possible?

If they haven't got the money to pay you and, instead, expect you to pay them... well, they mustn't be very good at what they do, surely?

Soundgarden - Echo Of Miles. They hard some truly great non-album tracks over the years

In case you couldn't guess where devil daddy is from... he's from Hell.

The hired goons got new masks. They must have received a Cease & Desist letter from Ghost 😂 This is the first one I heard. The amazing thing about it all is that nobody appears to have said "Lads, this is shite, don't throw your money away on this. Buy a Lambo or a mountain of coke, just don't waste it like this."

If that's the worst you've ever heard then you haven't heard their other songs. There's one about being the Devil... from Hell (well duuuuh) 😂 Truely woeful. He saw Ghost, tried to make his own version but in a bro-dude style and didn't have the talent to even carry that off. I hope he's not blowing his pension fund on this shite.

The track list for the new (double) album. Harris must feel sick he couldn't stretch the 4th track to over 10 minutes like his other solo efforts 😂 "Senjutsu" (8:20) - Smith/Harris "Stratego" (4:59) - Gers/Harris "The Writing On The Wall" (6:13) - Smith/Dickinson "Lost In A Lost World" (9:31) - Harris "Days Of Future Past" (4:03) - Smith/Dickinson "The Time Machine" (7:09) - Gers/Harris "Darkest Hour" (7:20) - Smith/Dickinson "Death Of The Celts" (10:20) - Harris "The Parchment" (12:39) - Harris "Hell On Earth" (11:19) - Harris

No love for Cathedral?

Only Jasper Carrott is real!

...where all the instruments are blue with a chrome scratchplate because, let's be honest, the magic disappeared once that bass got painted white with the WHUFC logo 😂

Keep the cover, just whip the pickup out, and put a strat hotrail pickup in there, wired in series. That'll make it growl.

Practice playing. Every type of bass has been used for all those styles of music. The difference is the fellow or lady playing the thing. You can play all of that music on pretty much any reasonable quality bass. By reasonable bass, I mean something you can plug into a DI and it sounds good without any polishing on a desk, no amp, no effects, no EQ tweaks. Everything else is fluff. It's fun but it's still fluff. A decent player and any decent bass and you're good to go.

A Levinson Blade and a Sadowsky onboard pre.

If the embarrassment of bandmates on-stage could be used as fuel, Di'Anno's hired hands could probably power a medium-sized city.

Levinson Blade have had them since the 80's. I think EBMM started using them late 80's/early 90's, too.