Doctor J

4 hours ago, LeftyJ said:

Here's the regular music video:

The guy plays an Ibanez RG guitar here, and it can actually be heard in this version too . They toned it down a bit for Eurovision, I guess to make it less industrial and metal and more appealing to a broader audience. 

 

When I heard that on the night I was genuinely in the WTF camp and amazed it got so much of the public vote but, the more I hear it, the more I like it. There's a lot going on there, it's really quite far removed from the Europop camp.

Christ, lads, let it go 🤣

Get  1/4" drill bit and make the hole in your existing knobs a teeny, tiny bit bigger.

Don't drill through your hand, though. Safety first and so on.

My drum kit was used to record Paddy Casey's Saints and Sinners album. I'm not really a fan so it doesn't mean anything to me but it is a nice kit.

Whatver this is...

Bonzo's squeaking bass drum pedal features on a number of songs but is particularly clear on Since I've Been Loving You and The Ocean. Be warned, though, once you hear it, it gets louder every time 🙂

Why not just wait and buy the bass you actually want instead of buying something you clearly don't want?

I don't think I've ever seen anything which discouraged me. Great music and musicians make me want to play. Crap music and musicians make me want to play too, just better than they were 😀

The way the ramp is radiused and the pickups are not is not befitting a bass with a price tag like that. The amount of work which went into this and to mismatch like that is, quite frankly, wack, cuz.

George Michael never sang "If you're gonna do it, do it wrong!" for a bloody good reason.

Surely the important issue is the amount of wood remo.... sorry, I almost forgot... the amount of tonewood removed from the core path of the strings? It's almost as if they don't care 😢

Had a 4003 for many years. I loved the sound, loved the look, hated the ergonomics. Now I miss the sound, miss the look, but don't miss the ergonomics. I just found it very uncomfortable for my style of playing. I'd love to try a 4004 with a forearm contour.

In the last year there were a couple of DeGier Origin basses, one a green 6 string and, the other, a blonde fretless 4 string, which gave me multiple impure thoughts. Luckily, I wanted neither a six string nor a fretless so was able to resist but the thoughts of a fretted four string in either guise still gives me palpitations.

1 hour ago, Nail Soup said:

Another chance to share this then:

 

Two out of three... not bad 😁

Thumb in attack position and mouth wide open/stupid face pulled. Two of the Tier 1 "Don't click play" flags, right there. All it needed was a "Top 10..." caption to go along with it and you'd have had the holy trinity of videos-to-avoid signals 😁

23 hours ago, Nail Soup said:

I get what you are saying.

It often annoys me when people say they listen to "anything". It's ambiguous... could mean they are a music enthusiast with a thirst for different styles, or it could mean they are indifferent to music.

I think it's usually used as a means to say "I'm not confined to specific genres". Should someone really have to append "...but only the good stuff"?

Listening to a broad range of musical styles does not indicate the inability to discern quality, just that there is a lot out there to be enjoyed and they have the mindset to be open enough to enjoy it. Is music the only artform where people get so caught up in such narrow pigeonholing?

"Do you like art?"

"Yeah, I love art but only Impressionism and Art Deco. People who like too many art movements have no taste!"

That is so annoying alright. Play from the wrist, you clown, not the elbow!

I'd say quite varied, for sure. I primarily listen to electric guitar-based music but it can be metal, rock, blues, indie, alternative, etc. Even as a teen who listened primarily to metal (and was a devotee of thrash and death as they came along) I still listened to the likes of Chic at the time, getting into hip-hop at the tail end of the 80's. From there, I got into fusion and then more regular jazz and have a soft spot for a good trio. I quite liked a lot of the big-beat electronic music of the 90's and dig a bit of techno every now and then. A bit of folk and Americana is no harm either. You can't go wrong with old Motown and Stax, particularly the raw early stages of funk. I got into classical over the last decade and my good lady is quite partial to opera so I'm giving that a go, though it can be hard going at times. 
 

I've reached the age where a lot of modern pop music sounds like utter shite to me and I've never had time for that soulless, corporate pop particularly prevalent through the last 20 years.

I don't get the snarkiness towards them, the hipster jibes. Dart is an exceptional bassist and they're a band who have found success on what appears to be their own terms, without any support from The Biz. It's natural the music is not to everyone's taste and I can understand not being a fan of how they promote themselves but one must surely doff a cap in their direction for showing it's possible for a skilled and creative independent band to make a successful dent in an industry absolutely weighted against them? The guy now has two signature basses with a company who traditionally have not exactly previously warmed to the idea of signature basses. They should not be anywhere as big as they are, by any logic, but here we are. There is a lot more substance to them than being something for hipsters to stroke their beards to before heading to the pop-up gin bar. I think it's gas. Fair play to them.

48 minutes ago, MHMSWC#03 said:

Meh. There's always going to be a place in my heart for Papa Het (who let's face it is going to end checking out on us in a rehab facility at some point in the next two decades). But I cannot stand anything that comes out of the Danish midgets mouth, especially after he did a no-show at Download 2004 which I am still marginally annoyed about...

Time has shown Lars to be the sound one of the group. Amazing 😂

On topic...

Kreator - Renewal

Mindfunk - Dropped

Living Colour - Stain

Motley Crue - s/t

Prong - Prove You Wrong

I love that. I think it's brilliant. It's Spinal Tap in the real world. How a band who were so, so good could become so utterly inept, it's fascinating. 

Middle age millionaires, completely disassociated from that which made them great in the first place, struggle and fail to capture anything of merit while unable to relate to each other or their music, incapable of critiquing or being critiqued, then subtly blame the whole mess on Bob Rock who, wisely or unwisely and under great pressure from management, went shoulder deep to extract turgid offerings from far, far up their rectal passages and piece it all together in some sort of cohesive and musical way. What more is there to understand? It was embraced all the way to the charity shops.

The documentary is wonderful, as is Berlinger's book about the experience, but the soundtrack should be buried under lava 😁

22 minutes ago, Doddy said:

I think it's interesting (strange) that they have been making signature guitars since the late 80s/early 90s, but refused to make signature basses. I can understand them not wanting to rename the Stingray for Flea ( which is basically what Modulus did with the Sonic Hammer), but if they had made a tweaked model for him I think they would have sold very well.

I don't think they had an anti-bass agenda, as such, and given the developed the Bongo and Big Al it's not like they were against trying new things in bass world. It's an interesting one, alright. If anyone is brave enough it would be worth seeing if Sterling would open up about it on their forum 🙂

8 minutes ago, Doctor J said:

They've had Steve Lukather and Steve Morse models since the mid-90's at least, definitely before 95, and the Albert Lee model even pre-dates those, I think. As I recall, I read Flea wanted the Stingray renamed after him and got the PFO. At least, I read that somewhere shortly after he started his relationship with Modulus. 
 

Only recently have they adopted the more scattergun signature model approach though, to be fair, their signature models usually are something quite different from standard stock. Certainly, they tend to go further than stock-with-a-particular-colour-of-paint you see elsewhere offered as "signature" models.

Of course, I forgot the EVH guitars which came out in 90 or 91 - now called the Axis after his defection to Peavey, I believe.

51 minutes ago, FDC484950 said:

Ironically MM didn’t “do” endorsee models a while back and was proud of the fact. Tony Levin, one of the biggest proponents of the MM basses and particularly adoption of the SR5, only got a cheap OLP as a signature instrument (although to be fair they did make him a 3-string bass that was destroyed in a fire IIRC). 

They've had Steve Lukather and Steve Morse models since the mid-90's at least, definitely before 95, and the Albert Lee model even pre-dates those, I think. As I recall, I read Flea wanted the Stingray renamed after him and got the PFO. At least, I read that somewhere shortly after he started his relationship with Modulus. 
 

Only recently have they adopted the more scattergun signature model approach though, to be fair, their signature models usually are something quite different from standard stock. Certainly, they tend to go further than stock-with-a-particular-colour-of-paint you see elsewhere offered as "signature" models.

Geezer says "yes"