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I've been really enjoying this album, a good solid modern  ( dare I say, mostly happy??) hard rocking album. Somewhere, Eddie is smiling. I mean, he was always smiling, right 👍🤘🎸

Not especially "difficult " but I bet a tidy proportion of the public can hum this bassline, which should qualify it as "good" in my books 👍👍

If you get a 'normal' 5 string then you only have to down tune by a semitone to get to A# right...? So any 5 string would be good, the mid price ~£500 Ibanez ones are very well regarded in the metal world as I recall. If you want a fan fret they make them too....??

https://www.andertons.co.uk/bass-dept/bass-guitars/ibanez-sr-multiscale-5-string-34-355-scale-bartolini-bh-2-p-u-deep-twilight

I would start by looking in the for sale ads on basschat

Technically, as this is, by definition, the greatest song in the world, and Kyle Glass plays guitar on it, Kyle Glass must be the greatest guitarist in the world. Sorted.

1 minute ago, Ricky Rioli said:

I'm holding that photo up to my sunburst 424 and asking it, wouldn't you much rather look like that?!

I do love the white, but my absolute favourites were the red sunburst type one and the orange sparkle, of which there are two for sale and I'm soooooo tempted!!!!

2 minutes ago, EJWW said:

Looks like a BB414 if I'm not mistaken?

Indeed. Got it from  basschat , gigged at pub level for 3 or 4 years most weekends, and to be honest I don't think I'd gig any other type of bass now, ( if I ever were to gig again), it's just so solid and sounds great.

My BB has been packed away for a while, been playing on my 'little' Ibanez mezzo which is a nice enough instrument, however got it out this weekend and am in love with it all over again. Was still in tune too. 

My two.

The Yamaha has been packed away until I got it out for a blast today, what a fantastic instrument.

39 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

My traditional Powerhouse PH212 Mesa cab has exceptional HD castors on bottom and your description is exactly how i move my gear at moment but having gone down the lightweight road with new Mesa Subway cabs the weight isn't an issue as such. The 210 cab is slightly larger in size and its more bulky than heavy. Its more about saving extra trips in and out of the venue when loading etc. I was able to lift my PH212 cab on my own and did regularly do my own lifting. 

I dont want to be fitting castors or wheels to bottom of cabs that have just cost me a lot of money but to be honest its solely down to laziness in walking in and out of venues. Ok if i can park directly at a venue and straight into stage area but some clubs you have to walk all the way thru corridors, bar and even lounge areas to get to the main venue area.

Because of the bulk of carrying 2 lightweight cabs for any distance and thru varying types of doors it can be quite challenging. I used to do it with my Berg AE112 cabs and my MB rig altho they were pretty small 12" cabs.

Dave

Agreed, castors not an option here. I did have two smaller 2x10 TC cabinets at one point, but because of the awkwardness of moving them, despite their relatively light weight, I found I always defaulted to the wheelable 4x10. Bad backs are a proper curse. Especially as my initial injury was caused lifting an old Peavy 4x10 as a teenager, man that thing was heavy.

As a slightly different option ( my back is shot to pieces so I've tried a few options, this worked best for me) , depending on what gear you have, when I used a TC 4x10, I got some really good casters for the bottom of the cab, (think they were about 5/6 inch diameter),  put it in-car last so that it could be slid out onto ground first, then put amp head in it's bag on top of that,rucksack with leads etc on top of that, then carefully wheel that lot into venue, then bass in case on it's own.
I believe the casters were locking too so your rig didn't glide across the pub when you leaned on it while the guitar solos went on, and on, and on.....

16 hours ago, BassApprentice said:

Still not a huge fan of the SR shape, but I'm really enjoying my Bronco mod and my Kingston 35" 5er just feels a bit cumbersome. How do owners find the bridge pickup? It looks a bit far from the bridge for my liking, does it still do the bridge J noise reasonably well? 

I only use mine at home through a Fender Rumble 40 practice amp, so bear that in mind, but to be honest I find it useful as a thumb rest and that's about it. The P style pup is pretty good, and occasionally I mix in a bit of the J to change the tone a bit, but nearly always go back to the P solo-ed. Others may have different experiences of course. 👍

1 hour ago, lemmywinks said:

 

A pal of mine had one of those, in a fancy wine red finish. Weighed a ton and I hated the preamp but it was built to withstand some serious abuse. They were Samicks I think.

The preamp was a bit all or nothing, I always left it in the centre positions. This one's not that heavy to be honest, it's just unbalanced. The bridge position is somewhat strange, a long way from edge of bass.

My only bass through the 90's was this one, an MB5. This has seen some serious hours of playing/gigging. Massive sound, very tight and focused too. It was active but years ago a problem occurred ( can't remember what!!) and it was repaired, badly as it turned out, so I stripped out all the electronics and wired it direct to the volume /jack so its passive now. Still sounds huge!!!!

The neck is sublime, if heavy, with very dark rosewood and super jumbo frets. The one bad thing is it neck dives, not so much of a problem when younger, but now....no. This bass means so much to me. I remember playing it in Monkey Business music Southend, 1992, went in to try another 5 string butbthe guy in the shop said, try one of these, they just come in, and this blew away the others I'd tried. Ahhh, memories..!!!

Have to be this one, I was 13, obsessed with reading horror fiction ( King, Barker, Herbert etc) and saw this in the local record shop. ❤️❤️
 

Tesla, at the Marquee club in Wardour st on their first UK tour ('86/'87) , hot, sweaty, outrageously loud, and when the guitar solos hit the high notes my sight started to black at the edges.

bad loud, Iron Maiden on the Book of Souls tour, I think I read the guy on the sound desk got fired, usually they're loud but clear, this was a wall of noise.

2 hours ago, 4000 said:

I got one off Joey DeMaio of Manowar in 1984. It was yellow with his name on it. I used it for at least 10 years before I lost it. Still cheesed off I lost it now, there was easily another 10 years of wear left in it! 😂

This wins. 🤘🤘🤘
Please don't shatter my illusions as I'm imagining it being forged from the same gold as the one true ring in the Tolkein trilogy.  

I got Steve Vai's, caught it at the Astoria at the gig filmed for the  DVD in 2001.

It was mid set and he flicked it into the crowd and my hand just went up and came down full of Vai magic. 99 times out of 100 I would have dropped/missed it. So stuck it in a frame.

My originals band ( back in the day, as they say...) supported Girlschool at the Chelmsford Army and Navy pub, must have been '93, '94 (?).. I don't know if they had any original members from the 80's version of the band. We were terrified. Luckily, due to grunge being the flavour of the day, virtually noone turned up so it was like all our other gigs 😆😆

I used to get a lot of Tygers albums out from our local record library because the covers were so awesome ( to a 13 year old male!!). 🤘🤘

12 hours ago, Geek99 said:

I forget his name, but he is a vegan 

edit: Phil collen 

 

bag lady is exactly the word for joe Elliot, he looks like my gran, without makeup 

 

Ha ha 😆😆

I think Def Leppard were ( Image wise) a victim of timing, the music they made on Pyromania was better received in the US and it was just as the BIG hair bands were breaking out there too and they kind of went along with that ( and lets face it their career went stratospheric so fair play to them) . I've seen them live a good few times over the years, the guys are all decent singers in their own right so doubt there's any shenanigans going on, they still tour almost endlessly in US so they should be good.

Joe has IMO never had a brilliant singing voice, back in the day he sounded a little bit AC/DC ish which is what rock bands needed, but having said that compared to J Bon Jovi he's not aged too badly!!!!

I am a living cliché, I'm 51, my favourite ( though not exclusively) music is rock/metal, I still buy and prefer CDs ( though do have spotify for research purposes) as I find the sound is more to my liking, I value sound quality, also my car has a CD player so it's great to 'grab and go' whatever I'm in the mood for. My son is 20 and majors on streaming and, yes, has started a vinyl collection too 😆😆😆. 
Hopefully between us we can keep recording artists in business for a few more years.

Wanted to fly in the Red Arrows. Actually drive RM van. I mean it's red, and has a stripe so......

I'm predominantly a rock/metal guy, and as such I am very easily pleased, I'd say 90% of (signed) bands I've seen over the years have impressed me, but a couple have stuck in my mind as leaving me slack jaw smitten by the performance, here's two from different ends of the rock spectrum,

1. Faith No More, at the London Astoria, just after The Real Thing album came out (so '91..???) , simply the most powerful, energetic live performance I've ever seen. They had to leave the stage after 10 minutes because the crowd had collapsed the barrier. Pure, unadulterated power and joy!!!

2. Marillion with friends from the orchestra, 2019, I've always preferred their more melancholy songs, and although many rock bands have played with strings/orchestra, to my ears this is the best, most perfectly integrated attempt and it works wonderfully. I saw them in Southend, and was so impressed I immediately sourced some tickets for the following weeks RAH gigs. Sublime,

13 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

Mark of Booze & Glory’s Polish accent is quite strong on some of their songs.

Lozz, that reminds me, Mariusz Duda from Polish modern prog rockers Riverside sings in English with a distinctive lilt that works very well 👍🤘👍