Doctor J

No, not the same analogy for solidbody instruments, that is the entire point.

The working title of the movie was "Who the F*@% is Frank Zappa?", it was always intended to be an exploration of the man, not the music. There's lots of talk about his music out there but not so much about what made him tick. To his eternal credit, Alex Winter was behind the whole idea from day one, he put it all together from scratch.

He was very much not from drug culture but I can see why he'd be lumped in with it. He was operating at a very different level😁

If you're unfamiliar with him but vaguely familiar with his music I think you'll enjoy it a lot. He had a lot of strings to his bow, so to speak, a really fascinating character. My earliest memory is actually listening to my Mother's Mothers of Invention records, so Zappa was my musical starting point but, even for me, his music ranges from sublime to unlistenable. There is a bit of both in the movie 🙂

But they're quite commonly all used in instruments. 
 

Pine

https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Fender-American-Pro-II-Telecaster-MN-Roasted-Pine/3IYJ?origin=product-ads&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6qPq4tOo7wIVBLTtCh3s8g4eEAQYAiABEgKq5fD_BwE
 

Basswood

https://m.thomann.de/gb/ibanez_ehb1500_def.htm?o=8&search=1615480565

Padauk

https://m.thomann.de/gb/le_fay_herr_black_5_xs_semi_wn.htm?o=64&search=1615480614

Oak

https://m.thomann.de/gb/fodera_imperial_elite_5_select_beb.htm?o=32&search=1615480754

Yeah,I participated in the crowdfunding for this over 6 years ago 😂

Actually, the funding was to digitise the material in the vault and the documentary was a parallel project utilising the vault material. We got the doc a few weeks ago, I thought it was well worth the wait, there's a lot of stuff in there I had never seen before. If you're a Zappa fan, there's probably not a lot you didn't know already but it's a great overview of the man and his music.

I got slightly damp just reading that 😁

Ahem... tonebreadboard, surely?

Brah, don't deny the tonemammoth.

In acoustic instruments the wood directly vibrates the air generating the soundwaves you hear. In a solidbody electric instrument, not quite.

Is a maple neck and rosewood fretboard one? 😁

Surely it's tonewoods, not tonewood?

I'm very exciting, personally, but I play boring basses.

1 hour ago, tegs07 said:

Edit: I have yet to find a bass that is 100% ply body. Usually they are a front and back ply over a frame of wood ... often multiple pieces of wood. 
 

Here

1 hour ago, OliverBlackman said:

Saying that only the good ones are now beaten up is utter bull. What if someone bought it who didn’t gig but wanted something to cherish at home? Doesn’t mean it’s bad. I’ve got some great basses, One I have gigged with and is 14 years old barely has a mark on it.

Have a read of what I said without defaulting to petty outrage and trying to put words in my mouth which I didn't say. I did not state that "only the good ones are now beaten up", merely advised caution that there could be more to it looking pristine than meets the eye.

It looks like it's from that era, but bear in mind that the S7 serial numbers were used well past 77 and the S8 serial numbers were used up to the early 80's, so it's probably not strictly from 1978. That battery box gouge would irritate me every single day. As for why it looks in pristine condition? Maybe it's crap and not good to play? It's certainly heavy. Old doesn't necessarily equal good.

Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing

Ozzy Osbourne.

The galah has never put a shrimp on the barbie in his life.

Yep, there's a spoke wheel, a la EBMM, under there. This is a B4, I believe. The B3 has solid colours. Wonderful, wonderful instruments.

That album was such a disappointment. The live band - Jerry, Ralph, Kimberly, Folami, etc are absolutely phenomenal and they barely get a look in, in favour of big names which makes it really sonically disjointed to my ears. This is one of the few tracks where you get Jerry and Ralph, at least, and it's probably the highlight of the album because of it.

Alembic were in cahoots with the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, CSNY, etc, building them custom PA rigs before moving onto instruments with them.

Was Pete Townshend not a force behind Marshall making amps which clipped? As I recall, Jim Marshall was trying to make a clean and loud amp and Pete insisted he wanted it to break up and be loud.

I've never had a subscription to have the satisfaction of cancelling 😪

Metallica lost me the day Load came out. As I listened to the tape, I had to take the inlay out of my pocket to check the lyrics corresponded to what my ears were hearing. That being said, I still find myself picking up the albums as they come out, sometimes sooner, sometimes later. Somewhere in there is still the band which captivated me as a kid with Master of Puppets and AJFA... but that band remains well hidden.

I even have Lulu, saw it in a charity shop for a couple of quid and thought "How bad can it be?"  The answer is very bad.

When I was playing in a mate's blues band, I used to drop it into the middle of Going Down

I saw her play with Triumph of Death (i.e. Tom Warrior playing Hellhammer) a couple of years ago and she was playing a short-scale white SG bass. She gives it full beans.