Doctor J

Top job as always, everyone.

Thanks. There's probably bear of some sort 😁

I'm in. I'm not sure this is really what I was aiming for when I started but... ehhh... there you go. I saw this as a doorway to the darker side of restaurant eating, where items not fit for any printed menu wait within for the more adventurous gastronaut. You takes your unlabelled grey meat and go where it takes you, with more than just the taste of regret in your mouth. The technical stuff - my lovely new Yamaha kit into the cheapest Thomann and Behringer mics and preamps. Bass is a Yamaha BB1100s into an Avid Eleven. Guitar is a Bacchus strat for the twang and a Tokai 335 for the bop, also into the Eleven. All recorded into Protools with additional noises from Reason.

Plywood? Looks like pine. I'd say it's passive, 2 vols, 2 tones and a switch like a Les Paul. It reminds me of some Ekos from that era. Nice catch.

If you're the same person you were as an 18 year old, there's something fundamentally flawed with you. Embrace change, it's part of being alive and life stays interesting by having different perspectives to the ones you had as a kid who thought he knew everything 🙂

Do you hook it onto the vegan or how does it attach?

Cynic - Kindly Bent to Free Us Massively overlooked, in my opinion. It's no Traced In Air, no, but still quite wonderful. It's horrible to think two of the three of them are dead now, such rarely gifted musicians.

It annoyed me because it's not great at all, but I'll probably end up buying the CD 😂

Very sad to hear this

I'm another in the love it camp. It's an amazing looking thing with a Jazz sized nut. What's not to like?

That's the Geezer signature model, also available in blacker than black.

The point being it's not 34" scale and, therefore any correlation to a traditional Jazz is relative, not absolute.

Totally, but then again, it's better to be looking at them than looking for them. Since it's combo, it's probably running at 8 ohms and needs an extension cab to bring it down to 4 ohms and extract the full capability out of it. I've used an ABM 300 for the last 20 years with a 1x15 and 2x10 and have never needed more than that but, as we all know, not all amps are equal when it comes to projecting their wattage. Some are better at generating heat than sound.

Because wattage and loudness\volume are not the same thing and some people think the more watts, the better?

Mezzos are short scale, no?

No, I thought they just don't pay you until you get enough followers to monetise the channel. You need 1000 followers, something like that?

If it's not a canary yellow BC Rich Ironbird, it's not the right bass.

With some Shampoo for an encore?

I made it 4 seconds into his introduction. It might be the best plugin in the world, but I just can't handle forced wackiness on youtube.

Although the quality has dipped with each new album, Feel the Steel is, and always will be, an absolute banger.

After careful consideration, Ronnie James Dio counsels caution when considering purchasing this particular instrument.

Holst was 40 before he started on The Planets, 44 when he finished it. R.E.M. were in their 30's before they created Out Of Time and Automatic For The People. Foo Fighters released only two albums before Grohl turned 30. Gold Mother came out when Tim Booth was 30. Laid, Seven, Whiplash, Millionaires, these wonderful albums all came after. The B-52's peak came well into their 30's. Doug Pinnick was 30 before King's X ever formed. He's still putting out great albums with KXM with George Lynch, who's in his 60's. It's not impossible for older musicians to excel after they turn 30. If they don't, it's nothing to do with what the calendar says.

Mick would have been about 50? 😁

Metallica are a poor example, having tightly embraced mediocrity for 30 years. How about Sepultura, Voivod or Anthrax who continue to put out creative and interesting music well past thirty years into their careers?