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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

Iron Man After Midnight I Can Be That Dirty Women

To replicate it you'll need a multi million dollar recording studio. There's probably $10,000 dollar compressors and even more expensive preamp. Its probably multi tracked and multi amped and the bassist was probably trying to drown out Chad's awful, droning vocals.

50 Million Year Trip - Kyuss

This weekend I started on Blood And Thunder by Mastadon. Not a complex song but the main riff is very fast. Maybe I underestimated it, maybe I'm just rubbish, maybe both but this one will take me some time. What an absolutely killer tune though. https://youtu.be/labytsb3gfI

I don't really like the Hoffner but I like that it's not the standard choice. McCartney sounds like McCartney because he doesn't use the usual instrument and amp choice. I know Fenders are popular because they sound great but the whole P bass in to an Ampeg thing is a bit unimaginative and always sounds pretty much the same. The Hoffner has never been a common choice so it stands out visually and sonically.

I'm always surprised when musicians have such appreciation for music which is so far from their own genre but I'm starting to think it's quite common among a lot of most creative musicians.

I think every Monday he does a metal video.