SteveXFR

The grapes of wrath - Weezer

Two cups of tea - Star F***ing Hipsters

I gave up with Facebook and Instagram. They seem to prioritise showing you some butt-wagon ranting about politics over the stuff you actually want to see. I couldn't care less what Juan thinks about Bernie Sanders, I want to see my favourite bands tour announcements but no, Facebook wants me to see Juan. If its not Juan then it's Esmarelda with her proof that the earth is flat.

It's definitely a distinctive sound. I'd suggest looking up some shoegaze playlists on the streaming service of your choice.

That's true. I think they're possibly a bit more post rock

Didn't the name originally refer to guitarists always looking down at their pedal boards because they were constantly changing effects? Always going from heavily distorted with a ton of delay to slightly different heavily distorted with a ton of delay.

The man likes a bit of mast. Is that a pirate euphemism?

Scurvy dog Ulrich should walk the plank.

I've been listening to a lot of 90's shoegaze bands this week (Swervedriver, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine etc) but I'm not finding any new shoegaze bands. Do they exist?

I'd like to go to pirate metal gigs but I get sea sick

Got it. I loaded the track in to Reaper, set up a loop on the riff and slowed it to 75% and stuck with it. The rest of the song was a doddle after that. I still don't get why that was the bit that tripped me up. Great song though and really fun to play. Makes me want to start a stoner metal covers band but that seems like a band no one would ever book!

I'm enjoying Slift this morning. A French prog band with some really awesome bass.

Yep, that's exactly where I trip up

Unlikely, I'm not in a band at the moment. I'd like to though

I don't think so. I play riffs like this all the time but this one is causing me trouble it shouldn't.

I really don't understand why I can't get this riff right. It should be dead simple. I'm even messing it up at half speed. I'll keep at it until I get it but is there something tricky? There can't be surely. it's from Freya by The Sword and played in C standard tuning

Ross Kemp on gang bangs - Raised By Owls

American Warewolf in Bognor Regis - Raised By Owls

Mrs Robinson - The Lemonheads

The Polyphony of Animals - Earthtone9

Secret Canine Agent - Viagra Boys

Yes, absolutely. To become that good requires a certain level of nerdyness to put in the thousands of hours of practice.

I played a multiscale. Not sure I'm good enough to be nerdy but the prog metal bassists who normally play them definitely are. I'd recommend trying one though, utterly pointless unless you use the low B string a lot, then it really makes sense

Anything to change tone is not an upgrade. There is no better or worse tone, only different tone. We all have different tonal requirements to fit with our band and the genre we play. A funk bassist would hate my super bright sounding strings and high output pickups but for me, they're great.

I almost forgot, I bought my daughter a MIN Jazz bass for Christmas. As a music student she should be nerdy BUT she doesn't even like prog or jazz. She's in alt rock, shoegaze and punk bands but I think only uses the jazz bass for the shoegaze band and that's definitely neither cool or nerdy.