Doctor J

Ah here, since everybody is adding loads, I'll stick with Chamberlin and add: Sean Reinert - the finest drummer I was ever privileged to see perform and young Eloy from Sepultura, who is redefining drumming in Metal music

With metal hips and knees like the Terminator

Ricky is 50 now, an old man, that's if he survived prison.

Once you get into the oul doom, you'll also need one in BEAD and, if you don't have a drop-tuner on it, another one in ADGC. It's a slippery slope, I tell ya.

It's only a wee bass, maybe visualise Dave Elf-son instead 😁

I Don't Like Mondays, said Bob.

Imagine My Sharona being released in 2020. The cancellation would have its own gravitational pull.

I know it's just me, but 4 string SRs which aren't PJ just look odd 😂

Doug Wimbish does that a lot, doesn't not do him no harm.

Nice bass. They intrigue me. I'd love to spend some time with one but there's something about paying a grand blind for a Cort which doesn't compute in my head. Silly, I know, but opportunities to try them first are practically non-existant.

I've gigged on bass, drums and guitar over the years. I dabble in keyboardness when needed but wouldn't come close to calling myself competent. Genuine question, does each component of the drum kit count as a separate instrument? Asking for a friend.

We are encouraged to Buy More once we escape the womb and are bombarded with the message until we expire, not just in online communities. This is how the wheels of our societies keep turning. I can recall, more than once, suggesting someone should have a think about what it is they really want when someone posts one of those baffling "Tell me what I should buy" threads. If you don't know what it is you want, keep the cash in your pocket.

Vicarious is interesting without being terrifyingly complex.

Jimmy Chamberlin. If Corgan was there, too, with the Marshalls cranked to 11, that would be ok.

They've gone so commercial, I much preferred the demo.

Wow, talk about 8 words making me want to check out an album 😂

***flashback*** I used to have Trouble - s/t and Masters Of Reality's debut on either side of a C90 back in the day, which was never far from my walkman, what a tape 😂 ***flashback***

My favourite album of all time, that one. Flawless. It and Manic Frustration were recently reissued, at long last. If you haven't heard it, do yourself a massive favour... https://troubleofficial.bandcamp.com/album/trouble

Whatever they end up being, they're in here. The ESP 400 Series Jazz is one, I suppose... https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/444938-for-all-the-basses-i-have-loved/?do=findComment&comment=4360298

I'd love to know where you're finding them, any ones I see are in the 600+ club.

My first ever gig was Megadeth supported by Sanctuary in 1988. Up until he played an extended intro to These Boots... I had never even considered playing an instrument but, right then, I knew I need to be a bass player. The silver PJ with sharkfins and binding is the one for me, I still love that bass. The new ones with the EMG soapbars, oddly enough, do nothing for me.

Desertfest was the major gig casualty of last year for me. I'm still fighting Ryanair to get a refund for my cancelled flights 😂

How many lovely Charvels do you have now?

I love stoner, doom and all things Sabbath influenced. I'm currently (as in right this very minute) writing and recording new stuff with a guy I was in a doom band with in the mid-90's. We could never find a singer at the time, nobody wanted to play doom, so we feel like we have unfinished business to address. Our premise is to be 30 years slower and sludgier than we were back then. Here's the last thing I did, with the singer of another former band - not the one from the 90's. http://witheredfist.bandcamp.com