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Thoroughly enjoyed that! Great fun song & video and the very obvious professionalism (bet you had storyboards & everything! ) certainly shows! Thanks Paul! I'll take that! I always consided BC to be a post-punk/celtic rock band with a prog rhythm section - in their early days they even had a tendency for 8-minute multi-part epics.

Unfortunately no longer in stock but as the seller presumably is Guyker, probably worth hanging onto the link - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/203735338271 I think I remember seeing these on AliExpress so probably worth having a dig around there. If you go ahead with the project, do post a thread here!

Mods - I should say I have already posted this in the 'Share Your Music' sub-sub board of the Recording sub-board, where unfortunately no-one much goes or seems interested - so if this post qualifies as spam, please delete the earlier one! This represents my first go at a 'proper' music vid - I've done lyric videos and slideshow-y montages before, but this is the first time I've used green screen, recorded performance & outdoor footage/still images & tried to make something coherent out of it. Disclaimer - the drone footage isn't mine (free-to use stock from the excellent pexels.com site) so any occasional illusion of professionalism would be that of the talented videographers whose work it is, not me! Video was recorded using my little Canon SX720 compact on its HD setting, all the bits & pieces were bunged together with Shotcut, which (as someone whose previous video editing experience was limited to Windows Movie Maker) was easy to get started with & pretty intuitive to work with, and let me do pretty much anything my limited imagination came up with. Anyway - I think I'm pleased with the result, given the obstacles of poor equipment, dubious aesthetic sensibilities and general ineptitude I have tried to overcome. It was fun & stressful in equal measure and I'm not even too horrified at my own ugly mug gurning away while I pretend to play bass! A bit about the song. This is a bit of a musical departure for us, and despite playing/programming the instruments on the song I consider myself a distant second-fiddle as far as writing it is concerned. Basically my partner-in-crimes against music sang it to me, & said "can you make the guitars sound like Stuart Adamson?" Doing so was an absolute pleasure as Stuart was a huge influence when I was learning guitar & starting to write songs back in the early 80s. For that reason the Yamaha SG and the Strat in the video are what I used in the song - however the bass you hear is an Ibanez RS924 Roadster, not the silly thing I'm waving around on screen! I also used a Riverhead Unicorn headless (with flats) for the chordal intro. Song was recorded using Reaper & mainly Reaper plugins, guitar sounds courtesy of ToneLib GFX, bass through a Behringer Bass V-Amp Pro, & drums are the MT Power Drumkit plugin. Hope you like it!

Looks like it's the latest instalment in that long-running occasional series, Curious First Posts On A Bass Players' Forum.

Carnivore were great fun. All the time you appreciate Peter's tongue was wedged firmly in his cheek. In fairness the same is true of a lot of Type O material.

I was a big Peter Steele/Type O fan, absolutely gutted when he died. Fantastic band, saw them a good few times & they were a big influence on the gothy aspect of the band I was in in the early '00s. IMO Peter's huge overdriven tone defined their sound as much as his vocals did. And they wrote the best Christmas song:

Good deal, apart from the tuners being replaced with nasty cheap pressed tin Chinese rubbish.

I think he'd approve but it's not a route he would go down - he's all about the sausage fingered royalty of guitar playing. In fact I'm sure the only thing that's restrained him from doing the exact opposite, and modifying a 5 or 6 string bass into a guitar is the unavailability of 35" scale .009 guitar strings!

Dunno how I missed this thread - +1 for the Danish oil which was exactly what my SR500 refin got! It did get a few more coats though, 10 or so, iirc.

New song & video from my current musical endeavour. Hopefully won't be removed for political content - but you can sing along & dance to it (although possibly not the 10/8 bits) whether you empathise with the separatist sentiments or not! Wilfully a bit more celtic rock than my usual prog nonsense, and it was good to indulge some of my early musical influences - Stuart Adamson was a huge inspiration when I first picked up a guitar and I enjoyed unashamedly channeling that influence throughout this piece! Recorded with Reaper using a Behringer UMD404 interface, guitar noises all courtesy of the freebie version of ToneLib GFX, bass went through a Behringer Bass V-Amp Pro, & drums courtesy of the MT Power Drumkit plugin. Some of you might be unsurprised by the vintage MIJ guitars involved - '84 Yamaha SG1500, '86-ish E-serial Squier Strat, and bass-wise (despite the silly headless Rickenfaker in the vid) an '82 Ibanez RS924 Roadster for everything bar the intro chordal parts. Those were done with a mid 80s Riverhead Unicorn strung with flats. I have a tendency to get bored & wander off once a composition gets to the 'that doesn't sound bad' point of mixing, and this song's no exception - in fact my production skills are sufficiently limited that continued meddling has been known to make things worse. Still, very happy with the clarity & definition of everything & it sounds pretty decent on a variety of different setups. It's sort-of mastered using Izotope Ozone Elements, using whichever preset it was that made it sound loud... Vid was cobbled together on Shotcut from a variety of sort-of appropriate royalty-free content & stuff we recorded/photographed ourselves. Having started out with the idea being a simple slideshow/lyric video, it did reach the point of almost collapsing under the weight of its/our ambition. But I feel that is the appropriate prog path.

This seller's entire Items For Sale list looks like his plan to make a million overnight involved going to the local car boot with £40 and a wheelbarrow: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/imola1994/m.html?item=364067011254

Laptop/PC + Reaper + MT Power Drumkit (or similar inexpensive DAW/plugin pairing) should do what you want.

Rare stealth ad for a rare & (debatably) cool old headless bass, currently £90 with two days to go. Collection-only from Nottingham otherwise I'd be telling no-one & getting ready to snipe. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185673840815

I think an immaculate, virtually unplayed one might justify £250+, but like you say, the 1 & 1As haven't appreciated like other MIJs have. It's interesting that the through-neck Thunder II & IIIs do go for quite serious money. That said, I think this one might stick around for a while!

Always worth looking at the sold items to get an idea of price - still lots of Thunders around, a few go for around that sort of money, but they still seem to be mostly in the £100-£200 bracket. This one looks OK, well-played but not abused & could do with a good hosing-down. Looks all original but I'd say a bit over the odds.

I don't know much about 60s stuff (or the many holdover 60s designs that were sold as beginner guitars in the 70s & early 80s) but I doubt this is Teisco. There were literally hundreds of little manufacturers knocking out this sort of stuff in the 60s and it could have come from any of them. That said, I've seen this type of pickup on Kawai guitars. So it might be a Kawai. Maybe.

I believe the owner of that particular imitation has it up for sale on the Rickenfakers FB group.

Didn't expect much, didn't get much. I'm broadly of the opinion they've not done anything worth getting excited over since Justice For All, and Metallica were always at their best when they sounded bleak, hostile or both. This is just safe, tame and a bit dated, and probably the best thing I can say is it sounds quite sprightly for a band in their late 50s/60s. Better than the turgid Load/Reload era (I remember a pal who'd been a fan since Kill 'Em All commenting "They should change their name to Licker, 'cos they're not f**ing metal any more!") but I don't think I'll be rushing out to buy the album.

Never had an FGN but have owned many, many Fujigen Gakki - built basses & guitars. My current faviourite recording bass is my recently rediscovered Ibanez RS924 Roadster, which has the punchiest, best-balanced PJ growl of any bass I've ever played, and if I need a Strat my £70 car-boot E-serial MIJ Squier remains the go-to. Apropos of nothing, Fujigen was the factory originally contracted to produce MIJ Fenders & Squiers when Fender Japan was established. Fender Japan was a collaboration between Kanda Shokai (owner of the Greco brand) and Yamano Gakki, and Fujigen was used because of the existing relationship with Kanda to produce Greco guitars - which were the instruments that sufficiently impressed FMIC to want to manufacture in Japan in the first place. The contract lasted until the mid 90s, after which most Japanese Fenders were made by Tokai Gakki & Dyna Gakki, labelled as CIJ to differentiate them from MIJ Fujigens.

My partner's away at the moment so not available for consultation - but she is at the same time the best and the worst person in the world about this sort of thing because I know for a fact she'd say BUY IT!!! ...And I probably will...

Struggling with my trigger-finger over a Shimano 105 7020 hydraulic groupset for £499 over at Wiggle/Chain Reaction. About half what it was 18 months ago... Bugger, for a moment I though this was BikeChat.

Hard to tell much from the pics, but based on the bridge (screw in each corner) & the domed string retainer, I'd say it's Korean. I've never seen these components on an MIJ bass but most late 70s/80s MIK Fender types have them.

J'arrive! I've actually got the guitar version of this, which means I've ended up finding out quite a bit of info about these. These are among the earliest Japanese copies and probably first appeared around 1969-70, and were likely available for three or four years around that time. As was mentioned upthread, they're quite common in the UK branded as Jedson, also sold as Vox, plus numerous other names. Like many old MIJ instruments, plenty were sold unbranded. Most names on instruments like these are just brands, not manufacturers, but these also come up labelled Sakai, which was a 60s/early 70s Japanese manufacturer.

HW builds some incredible basses.

Ric was Rick until Rick became RIC. See?