SteveXFR

Core strength is the way to go. Get your core muscles built up through gentle exercise and your back will be doing so much less work. Its made a huge difference to me in everything I do. Pilates may not seem like a very manly exercise but it really works well.

Money - Pink Floyd

My back is a bit of a mess after falling off a cliff (a bad day rock climbing). Pilates is seriously helpful. Building core strength really helps take the load off of your spine.

Thanks for that. It seems odd then that Orange made them relatively recently.

I started on Megalomaniac by Incubus this afternoon. A nice bit of funky heavy rock, great bass line and fun to play. I've got most of it worked out, just a section towards the end to learn now.

I've had an Orange 2x12 isobar cab for a couple years now but never really understood the point of it. It's compact but heavy for a 2x12 and doesn't sound like a 2x12. What waste reason for the design?

Even if you don't like his music, James Blunt is one of the most entertaining people on twitter. There are comedians who don't deal with hecklers as well as he does.

He's not joking. It's a serious threat and he will do it.

None of the big couriers will insure musical instruments. I just pack it to survive a direct hit from a nuke and clearly write the address on in a few places and hope for the best.

Just be grateful you aren't a lefty as well, then your choices will be even more limited. I guess the problem is a lack of demand.

Gold Lion - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

My daughter plays hysteria spot on. 16 years old, only playing two years and it makes me sick!! 😫 She was annoying me one day repeatedly saying "I don't know what song to learn " so I said go and learn Hysteria. She did, I didn’t expect that!

I haven't been playing long enough and I'm not consistent enough to have really old bad habits!

Thanks. Some good tips. I do hit the strings fairly hard. Geezer Butler is a bit of a bass hero so I've tried to copy his style of picking hard but then Geezer doesn't play fast. I'll work on getting a much lighter touch on the strings. It's going to take some time I think.

I wasn't familiar with Panic Attack so I just had a listen. It sounds bloody hard. I see why it took two years

That's exactly where I'm failing. Play it slow and it's really easy but build up the speed and I'm tying my picking hand in knots trying to keep up and eventually it all goes wrong.

I'm hitting a dead end with my latest cover project and I don't understand why. I'm trying to learn Blood and Thunder by Mastadon. It's a fairly simple tune and if I was using a pick, I'd have it done pretty easily but Troy plays with fingers and that's what sounds best so that's what I'm doing. The first riff with the droning low D is really hard (for me) to play at full speed (93bpm). I've put it in my DAW and slowed it down and I'm dead at 82bpm, any faster and I'm trying my fingers in knots. I keep going at it and keep hitting a brick wall at 82bpm. Could there be some sort of technique I'm missing? Or am I just crap?

I first came across Future Islands at Glastonbury Festival. We were just getting some grub near by and I heard them start and thought it was worth further investigation. Not something I'd usually listen to but they were absolutely brilliant. Every member of the band was absolutely giving it everything. The singer is great at working the crowd and somehow he makes death metal style growling sound good in a pop song. Best band of the weekend for me in 2017.

Mutter - Rammstein Mother in German innit

Moron Brothers - NOFX

I've seen them. Extremely entertaining. It shouldn't work but it does.

My plan was to invest in my own ability rather than gear this year because a good player with limited gear sounds better than a crap player with great gear. I do fancy a better amp and a Justin Chancellor signature wah so b*****s to all that good intention.

I knew someone who played a Rickenbacker once then six months later, boom.... herpes. I wouldn't risk it although the great Al Cisneros makes his sound incredible.

Stripped - Rammstein

Anti Pope - The Damned