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2 minutes ago, Doctor J said:

It's a machine which fits into the criteria of the game.

The possibility of someone changing two letters is mentioned in the OP: change two letters and get a Paddington Hard Stare. I changed two letters, I got a Paddington Hard Stare, and I didn't have to write Carter The Unstoppable Sax Machine. It's been worth it.

AC / DP

52 minutes ago, Geek99 said:

sax machine would have worked 

What's a sax machine? 

I thought it was worthy of being quoted too, cheers

1 hour ago, Bolo said:

How do you break a pick?

I've been playing for about 30 years, mostly with a pick. Couldn't break it if I tried!

Stevie Young's tech says he gets through 30+ picks per show

Carter The Unstoppable Fax Machine

"Early in ZZ Top's career, Billy [Gibbons] and I drove up from Houston to Dallas - this is one of those stories you always hear, but this really happened, and we went to a pawn shop called Rocky's Pawn shop and on the wall was a Fender bass guitar and this guy truly had no idea what he had, and I get Billy to make the deal because he's better at that than I am. Anyway, he worked him and worked him and I got the bass for $70.  We're leaving and Billy goes 'Nope, wait a minute, no deal. You have to throw in the case.'  So he actually threw the case in, and it was close to an original case, for $70"

For an all original 1953 P, serial 970.

The concept of an online Motley Crue fanbase is deliciously full of contradiction.

Bassassin once wrote:

"..... Ibanez didn't use DiMarzios. It was their own 'Super P-4' - a very good DiMarzio clone, probably made by Maxon."

Mr @Bassassin will be happy to explain exactly what they are. Well, not happy exactly, but incapable of letting the educational moment pass by.

I put Dimarzios onto a P just to try to make it sound like an Ibanez Blazer 🙃

3 hours ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

Making them a quite unique and new fusion/crossover/combination between/of stainless steel and nickel-plated roundwound strings.

Does that mean the qualifying note in the small print saying something like "weights are given for entertainment purposes" has been deleted? 

PS two years ago I sold a 2+2 Yamaha through Bass Direct strung with a barely-played balanced tension 45-60-80-105 set of Chromes .... surely that would be too much of a coincidence? 😄

Weirdly, Daddario don't do a 45-105 set of Chromes, there's only 40-100, 45-100 and 50-105.

If you want 45-65-85-105 you have to make it up from singles. Strings Direct charged me £79 for that!

This explains why he talks like does on this videos. 

Whose fault is it that Phil Collins was playing with LZ and not some other excellent drummer who had beem given time to work with the other musicians? Yeah, Jimmy Page, that's you. 

And this mid-80s junk is also you, too.

Review/demo of this deeeply tempting bass. 

If my knackered left shoulder wasn't demanding only ultralight basses, I'd be trying to buy this right this second. Ahhhhh.

I've a set of 760FL 43-60-82-104, which I've put on my LB-100 twice.

The first time they replaced a 50-65-85-110 set of Pro Steels, which are total tension 180 lbs. They were a bit higher tension.

The second time, one change of pickup later, they replaced a 45-65-85-105 set of Chromes, which are total tension 196 lbs. They were a bit lower tension.

So they're somewhere in the middle between 180 and 196lbs.

Some other sets around there:

45-65-80-105 Swing Bass 182 lbs

45-105 GHS Boomers 184 lbs
45-105 Roto Bass 185 lbs

45-65-85-105 GHS Precision Flats 185 lbs

I found that under my fingers, the 760FL sounded a bit boring — the Chromes are far more responsive to my gentle tickling.

I've also previously tried the 49-69-89-109 760FM. They sounded even more boring played by me. I guesstimated them to be a bit over 200 lbs

I once gave the 40-100 set of Rotosound Monel Flats a go. Total tension is only 179 lbs, but the strings felt much stiffer than steel strings, and my dainty fingers said enough after only half a hour. I did like their consistency of character from one string to the next.

The 45-105 set of Monel Flats is much higher tension. In demos they sound great, but I would never dare try them! Even the double bassist sounding wonderful in this clip says the tension is a bit too much.

3 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

There’s no accounting for taste is there, I can’t imagine why anyone would take out the stock pickups from the MF Sig, those basses are just about perfect as they are.

They're not perfect at sounding like they've got a Dimarzio pickup, which is why I replaced the stock pickup with a Dimarzio. Someone else whose MF was missing its stock pickup was very glad to be sold mine.

I think it would be impossible for that shop to make money, given the location, the size, and the fact that it's a musical instruments shop, so I'm certain you're right, it's part of their overall marketing strategy, a cost rather than an income stream.

I bought a bass from them online in 2020, a very pleasant experience. 

My TRBX604 taught me that I don't like humbuckers, D'Addario XL Nickels, 38mm nuts, shallow neck profiles or active electronics.

I cant decide if that means I should regret buying it, or quite the opposite — all four of the basses which followed it have made me very content, so I guess it was a useful lesson worth paying for?

21 hours ago, Cliff Edge said:

it was fu#&%ing awful. It may have been the BBC’s sound mix at fault, or possibly Collins himself but I couldn’t understand most of the lyrics and overall it was just a god awful barrage of noise

Are you sure you weren't accidentally watching the Jesus and Mary Chain's Old Grey Whistle Test performance?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9f3oRzz8lbk