PaulWarning

TOTP did got through a period when everybody had to play live, I think it was so bad the soon abandoned the idea, shame they never show those performances, the story I heard was the band were required to record the backing track during the day (union rules) so they could mime to it on the show, the Beeb turned a blind eye so management could swap the tapes for the recorded versions afterwards, I think some bands took the fosters because they objected to miming, certainly Jimmy Pursey (Sham 69) insisted on singing live to a backing track, hence the intro "look who's on top of the pops mum"

five pages of pontificating, and you know what? I couldn't give a fcuk how many notes make a chord

I suspect we may talking about different types of muting here, muted all the time or muting to stop strings being played by accident or cut off the note to stop it sustaining too long

I can't ever recall dropping a pick while playing, they've sometimes slipped round, I use Dunlop Nylons 94mm luminous ones they're easier to find in the dark, not very luminous though

I mute mostly with my freting hand, the bottom E ( and A sometimes) by hooking my thumb over the neck or if playing a note on the A string just touch the E string with the freting finger, if playing an open string with the side of my picking hand, hope that makes sense

yes, it's pointless paying out for extra insurance until you've read the small print

most courier insurance excludes musical instruments, I wonder why?

power chords are great, you don't have to bother with all this major minor malarkey, just turn the overdrive up to 11 and thrash away, thirds sound rubbish anyway with distortion

there are bargains in the collection only market, picked up a Trace SMX GP12 head for £120 and a pair of Mission 760i's for £1.37 which is why I always courier if possible

it is, sorry Lefty J for doubting you, bit naughty of the seller to describe it as an Precision Standard and leaving Squier out of the title and description, apparently they're nothing special (ply body?)

done a bit of research, like I should have done first , apparently Fender did make these basses in the early 90's, bit naughty of the seller to try and make out it's a Standard Precision though

posted this on the Southpaw spotted thread, someone has said they think it's genuine, I didn't know Fender made basses in Korea, I would have thought it's a Squier with a Fender decal at best, I'm no expert though, oh yeah, the seller has no feedback https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/132466934492?ul_noapp=true edit, just had another look, it says Squier series in smaller letters, so has someone put a Fender decal on it?

are you saying it's a genuine Fender then? and not a Squier with a Fender decal just seen the seller has no feedback, which sets alarm bells ringing in me

Some sellers will courier if you ask them, I think it's paypal that's putting sellers off (does me) of course the buyer takes all the risk by using bank transfer, but the pendulum does seem to have swung to far in favour of the buyer with paypal

Fake? precision, says made in Korea on the headstock https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/132466934492?ul_noapp=true

you see, me being old school, if you can't do it live I'm not really interested, to me it's a bit like going down the local pub and finding a singer singing along to a backing tape, it's just cheating as far as I'm concerned, loopers are the same, but I do realise I'm just an old fart from a bygone age, oh yeah, don't like rap either, or all the many genres of it, you see I quite like a melody line to hook up too, told you I was old school

very clever I'm sure, not really my cup of tea, I'm more of a Rock and Roll sort of guy, I'm probably showing my complete ignorance here but you say invite him to one of our pub gigs, how would it be done it live?

yep, live hard die (relatively) young, they haven't all got the constitution of Keef unfortunately, that's them all gone now, along with The Ramones, got me wondering how many other bands have none of the original line up left alive

he certainly was unlucky, having to play bass in a band with Mitch Mitchell on drums, one story was they need someone to keep it simple just to hold the whole thing together

I think if anybody is uncomfortable wearing headphones they've got the wrong type of headphones, personally I like in ear ones, I forget I've got them in till I walk off with them still plugged in but everybody is different, but certainly those that squeeze you head too tight are not very good

I live in a detached house and always use headphones for practicing, I really don't see the problem, does it really make that much difference than practicing through an amp at low volume? and it keeps the peace

isn't sampling a way of copying someone else's idea when you aren't good enough to play it yourself? I copy other people's ideas when songwriting, but at least I play them myself thereby put my on interpretation, style, on it

I use a 2 x 8 and a 1 x 12, aways have the 1 x 12 on the bottom, don't really know why though

I'm a fan of the Trace Elliot sound but not the weight, so I use a TE head with light weight cabs, agree with everything Discreet says, Trace watts are a lot louder the D class watts and the preshape buttons are seductive when playing on you own but in a band situation a no no, I just cut the 50 and 60Hz sliders (GP12) to get rid of boom, but I do use a bass drive sim which does take out some mid range honk and have the input on full, the red light might flash very occasionally but that's it

apparently not, https://www.recode.net/2017/9/20/16339484/music-streaming-riaa-spotify-apple-music-youtube-2017-revenue-subscription sales but not as we know it