Newfoundfreedom

To me music should always have something to say. It should always be an expression of the creator(s) It should always stir some kind of emotional response. When it became more about the money than personal expression, mainstream music became stale and none descript. I remember some great tunes coming out of the 2000's American punk / numetal scene. But they were all sing along ditties which could have come from any one of 20 identical sounding bands. None of them had any real presence, individuality, or anything important to say, and all of the bands were interchangable with no real identity or individual sound. Also when people call computer generated noise "music" you know something's gone wrong with the human race. Anyone that listens to rave / acid house / dubstep, or anything of that ilk should never be allowed any kind of opinion on music, EVER! 😂 Then ........ John Lydon advertising butter. R.I.P musical integrity.

Harley Benton

Yup, me too. I had a boss multi effects pedal a few years ago and couldn't make hide nor hair of it, and everything I've ever tried with amp modelling just sounds awful. That's why I went with the line 6 M13, basically every foot switch is an individual and stand alone pedal, just like haven't a separate effects board.

SQUIRREL!!! I have the same problem. Highly unmotivated and easily distracted. Probably why I'm not a professional musician, or professional anything for that matter.

Sorry? Colour me stupid. What's a slot port?

Yeah, that wouldn't worry me too much as I wouldn't be lugging it around much.

Yup. Therein lies the problem. 😏

Ooh noice! I likes em short and pointy. 😮

Anybody heard of them? Are they any good? This 4x10 cab just popped up one of my local buy sell groups. Decent second hand gear is a bit thin on the ground here in Bulgaria 600w at 4ohms. With the current conversation rate it comes in at about £220. Is it worth the money?

Sadly it appears to be true. 😞 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/sep/22/chas-hodges-chas-and-dave-dies

A guitarist friend of mine told me when he was younger and couldn't afford to buy new strings he used to put his old ones in boiling water and they were good as new. I'd never heard of this before. Anyone else?

Can't speak for the Boss, but I have a line 6 M13, and I find it great for the bass. In fact it's the only effects I use or need.

Plenty of demo videos on YouTube. P

It's definitely Tonic (Tonika). One wonders what the designer was mixing with said tonic when he came up with the design, but I'm guessing it came from a still at the bottom of the garden.

Aha! So it is a stylised "T" as opposed to a "M" Well done that mam. Tonika it is.

Drive, by Joe Bonamassa. A member of my band wanted to play it a couple of weeks ago so we learned it and I absolutely hated it. It bored the sh#t out of me. Now a couple of weeks later I can't get it out of my head.

Hello there in the flatlands. I lived in Skeggy for about 15 years before leaving the UK 3 years ago.

I'm currently using the strings that came with my bass. I'm really thinking that the NYXL strings may be for me because I'm from Yorkshire and they're free!

Not quite. In Cyrillic what we with the Roman alphabet would perceive as an "H" is actually pronounced "n", and what we see as "u" is actually a lower case "i". Therefore MOHuKa would actually be Monika (assuming the first letter is M which is the same in both the Roman and Cyrillic alphabet, as is the o, the k, and the a.) I live in Bulgaria and they invented the Cyrillic alphabet. 😉

I see this all the time with general sales, not just bass guitars. It's like people are so lazy they figure if someone is interested then they will ask loads of questions, rather than going to the trouble of actually posting things properly in the first place. On a local buy and sell site where I used to live every other advert used to say "need gone", like that was actually some incentive for people to buy.

Beauty. I wish I'd bought it first. I can read Cyrillic but I'm still trying to figure out the first letter as it's highly stylised. It's either called Tonica (i.e "Tonic) Or Monika, take your pick, although best guess from the pictures of go with Monika. 😉

I would agree pretty much 100% with everything he says. Yes I listen to different music now than I did as a teenager, but if I were to list my top 10 albums of all time, every single one of them without exception would be albums I listened to in my teens. While listening to music has always been enjoyable, I've never heard a single album or even artist that's had anything like the impact of the bands I listened to back then.

The best one I ever saw was at an Iron Maiden gig. They were being supported by a then (and probably still) little known band called Funeral for a Friend (catchy huh). They were a bunch of fresh faced young lads about 18 or 19 playing to an arena full of Maiden fans who just wanted to see the main act, and they were being heckled mercilessly and having things thrown at them by a couple of hundred hard core Maiden fans right at the front of the stage. Three or four songs in and they were going down like a turd sandwich at a buffet. At which point the singer who was about as old as my favourite socks, walked to the front of the stage, stared straight at the offending crowd, lifted the mic, and in a level voice said "F#ck you! I'm 19 years old and I'm up here supporting Iron Maiden, and any one of you f#ckers would give your right arm to be where I am now", at which point an almighty cheer erupted across the whole arena, the band started playing the next song and all the offending Maiden fans started moshing along. The rest of their set was absolutely brilliant! I've never before or since seen anyone turn a crowd like that. Absolutely legendary!

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I'm reading, lead singer/ guitarist rock God wannabe and only female member of the band are an item and an absolute nightmare to work with. Other members are expendable.