SteveXFR

Snakes for the divine - High On Fire

Eyes of the South - Down Beaten to it by the honorable member above

I bought a pickguard from the US recently. Taxes were included in the purchase price. As far as I know it was just VAT. 2 weeks later it arrived and I didn't get any extra charges. The negative point was it came with some free chocolate which was bloody awful.

Real eyes realise real lies - Machine Head

I don't know how much he was exaggerating but Reef's sound tech told me their bassist ties new basses to the back of his land rover and drives down country lanes to relic his new basses.

Aren't most horses fairly mobile?

According to Monty Burns, radiation gives you a healthy glow.

The Americans swear by the Jack Daniels technique but the Highland Park method is definitely more effective. I guess its a better tone spirit.

If anyone is interested, the T Cut did an excellent job. It took a couple hours and four glasses of Highland Park.

I think the sentence he says most often is "he's a great guitarist, he played with us for a short time"

No mention of Fea so far? Or Thundercat? Surely they both count as pretty funky

A bit of Josh Hommes finest work this morning

Is there any argument to be had there? P bass with flats and a tort pickguard.

It's probably shortened their lives no more than if they spent the same time smoking. Especially if it was good communist cigarettes

Ed Sheeran is approaching similar levels of unpopularity to Coldplay, Maroon 5 and Nickelback

Check out Billy Gould from Faith No More. I think he's one of the greats. What makes him particularly great to me is his judgement for when to keep it really simple but absolutely solid. His use of slap to accent parts and never get carried away with it is excellent. His pick tone is superb as well. Check out Midlife Crisis and From Out Of Nowhere Tim Commerford of Rage's ability to provide a funky groove behind rather chaotic guitar and vocals is excellent, he just brings the band together. Check out Renegades of Funk and Bulls on Parade Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath is just genius. His parts are often more complex than the guitar part. Check our NIB and Iron Man Cliff Burton of Metallica (up to Master of Puppets) was the master of making the bass the lead instrument. Check out Orion and Anesthesia (pulling teeth)

I'd like the option to downgrade or remove my badge. I have too much free time, not knowledge or talent.

Give it away - RHCP

Digging the Grave - Faith No More Twist the knife slowly - Nspalm Death Psalm 69 - Ministry Kill you tonight - Type O Negative

God is a DJ - Faithless

I, The Witchfinder - Electric Wizard

I really didn't get on with SBL. It's OK for the very basic stuff but after that I very quickly got very bored with the lack of variety in musical styles. Any video featuring Scott you can skip the first half of the video because it'll just be jazz noodling or talking about his morning. I preferred the Talking Bass lessons, great teachers and more musical variety.

Tokyo - White Lies

I've just stolen a bottle of T cut from my dad's garage. I'll report back with results (possibly a thick ear)

At that price range, I think I'd go used. In a years time you'll quite possibly either want to upgrade or maybe give up either way you'll probably lose half the cost of it. I'd look for a used Squier Jazz, Ibanez SR300, Sterling SUB Ray or Yamaha TRBX. I found a Jazz style (narrow) neck easier when starting out but now prefer something wider.