SteveXFR

This discussion about Gibson/Epiphone has gone all wrong and its all Mel Gibsons fault.

That's true, they were all at it. Difference is most other countries who did it have changed their name since.

Mel Gibsons hatred of the English comes from his father who is a very right wing conservative Catholic. Let's be honest though, most of the world (including most of the British) hate the English. They just refuse to let all that colonising and stealing of historical artifacts go.

That explains this Edit; On second thoughts I probably shouldn't share the t shirt by Glenn Fricker which claims that Your Bass Player Is A Useless lady garden

Grrrrrrrrrreeereaaaat

How in the name of Satan's derrière crack does that violate a child safety policy?

It's not rock and roll if you're not in pain playing it.

He is, I met him years ago in Bristol after a Sleep show. Nice bloke. He's quite similar to Geezer I think, most of his bass lines are just lots of variations on a core riff with pretty simple fills. Nothing complicated or fancy. Just nice grooves and solid timing.

Alice Cooper's bassist uses an Epiphone Vintage Pro Thunderbird live. I'm sure he's in a position to buy any bass he wants.

I'm currently sat in the sun enjoying some Shrinebuilder. It's a bold claim but I think Al Cisneros is the second best metal bassist right behind Geezer Butler

Today's target is a bit of Shrinebuilder. I really like this song. There's basically just four riffs but lots of variations on them. https://youtu.be/0MOvk-dNLRY

I've just finished Funeralopolis by Electric Wizard. I'm thinking of starting State of Non Return by Om next. I'm also trying to get Journey To The End Of East Bay by Rancid perfect at full speed.

I don't think I could honestly say the Epi is better. The USA Thunderbird is finished a bit nicer. I just don't think there's £1000 of difference. If it was £300 difference I'd probably go for the USA version. Having said that, I would do unspeakable things to own a bicentennial Thunderbird.

We've been lucky with our chickens. At night they're in their sheds and during the day our dogs keep foxes away. We probably lose 2 or 3 a year. What surprised me was when a fox took our geese.

There is a very big difference between animals reared on a traditional farm with a caring farmer and meat produced on a high volume farm which is more like a factory. I've spent time around both and I only buy meat which I know has come from good, local farms. I've seen what a domestic dog can do, I saw an Irish wolf hound attack a two day old miniature pony foal. It went straight for the throat. Fortunately the stallion kicked the dog and it ran off before it killed the foal but it went on to kill two goats before a farmer shot it. The dogs owner paid for the horses vet fees and the dead goats under threat of prosecution.

I've got a vegan strap from Heavy Leather, the Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein signature strap. It's not as nice as leather and it doesn't seem very durable. Very comfortable though

That was the first and probably last time I've used the word dang

A ridiculous idea but dang it sounds amazing. There is definitely a place for harp in doom metal.

Isn't Epiphone owned by Gibson? Or at least part of the same group of companies? The Gibson will always sell just because it's a Gibson. Maybe they can make more profit on a mass produced Epiphone than a had built Gibson so it makes better business to have a really good Epiphone and not spend on any R&D for the Gibson because improving it may not mean more sales.

Listening to some Om this morning on the way to the amp repair dude. Anything with Al Cisneros on bass is pretty awesome.

They may not have had the technical skill of the current top riders but they had balls the size of water melons, endless determination and heaps of personality. We snuck in to the paddock at Brands once, I shouted something (nothing intentionally rude) at Pierre Chilli and he threw a knee slider at me. Top result!

I've been enjoying a bit of Mutoid Man this afternoon. The bass tone on the intro to this song is absolutely disgusting 🤘👌🤘

I've bought a couple beringer pedals for my daughter. The Super Fuzz is superb, really decent on guitar or bass. The chromatic tuner is OK but struggles with low tunings, anything below a low D is hit and miss. My Boss TU3 is quite a lot better. My Behringer monitor headphones work well but the design of the body looks like they've tried to make them appear complicated and high tech, just like how you never see on high end monitor headphones. I might try a pair of Behringer monitor speakers.

My daughter started guitar lessons at school last year and the teacher only did classical guitar while she wanted to play Misfits and Hives. She got bored and didn't practice enough. She's moving up to the next school after the holidays and they have a really good guitar teacher who will teach the fundamental skills to be a great guitarist but apply them to music the kids enjoy. He taught my older daughter bass a few years ago and I remember he taught arpeggios through ska and used Megadeath to teach timing exercises.