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Munurmunuh

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  1. Hardwired: nothing compared to Dyers Eve The four of these six I've listened to so far: ditto So I'm not yet convinced that you've proved your thesis that I chose "a poor example". But I do still have two to go..... 😋
  2. A band... equipment... space to rehearse... looks like heaven... 😊
  3. What I find fascinating is the case of those examples of rock music which have clear roots in rock and roll, but which aren't light or fun or simple and definitely aren't easy to play, but which are – it seems – still dependent on youthful energy and naivety to come into existence. Metallica might have put a lot of deliberate effort into recreating their early style in the title track from Hardwired.... ....but does it get anywhere close to, say, Dyers Eve?
  4. If I had those three basses, I wouldn't be playing it at all
  5. The upside is that you will never have to fear that most devoted fans are desperately hoping for a return to the form of your early 20s, you can enjoy knowing that they will be simply appreciative of the consistency of your output over the years.
  6. I'm thinking again what I said elsewhere yesterday, we can tell that your hands have an instinctive understanding of the sound of the SB-1 – there's no sense of your consciousness having to tell them how to produce what you're wanting, the colouring and the articulation feel natural and uninhibited, so the line is both smooth and characterful.
  7. Jimmy Page, Houses of the Holy, 30th birthday, Physical Graffiti
  8. How many bands filling stadiums get the crowd bouncing when they play the music they wrote after 30? I love that video of ACDC playing River Plate in 2009, the crowd a massive sea of life, everyone having a great time to music Malcolm Young when he was in his twenties
  9. January Cocker turned thirty before he hit his peak. Turned 30 in 1993, His'n'Hers in 1994, Different Class in 1995
  10. Some rebuttals: David Bowie, turned 30 in Jan 1977, with Low, Heroes, Lodger, Scary Monsters and Let's Dance ahead of him Bon Scott turned 30 in July 1976, before Powerage, Let There Be Rock and Highway To Hell Back on point: Be Here Now was released 3 months after Noel Gallagher's 30th birthday
  11. How many of your truly great albums did you write after turning thirty?
  12. Wasted Years, Sea of Madness and Stranger in a Strange Land are all excellent songs, and all written by someone who hadn't yet turned thirty.
  13. "Robert Smith's depression prior to the recording of Disintegration gave way to the realization on his 29th birthday that he would turn 30 in one year. This was frightening to him, as he felt all the masterpieces in rock and roll had been completed well before the band members reached such an age." Robert Smith was born in April 1959, finished recording Disintegration before he turned 30, and next produced Wish, which kind of proved his point. Here are four more songwriters of the 80s, and what they produced either side of their 30th birthdays: Steve Harris – Mar '56 – Powerslave – Somewhere In Time Andrew Eldritch – May '59 – Floodland – Vision Thing Dave Mustaine – Sep '61– Rust in Peace – Countdown To Extinction James Hetfield – Aug '63 – The Black Album – Load I had the idea of looking up every songwriter I could think of but seem to have run out of energy. Plenty of songwriters seem to fall off their creative plateau well before 30 - Black Francis, Paul McCartney, erm Simon Le Bon. You get the gist.
  14. I filled this in in a minute or two on Sunday and it arrived in the post today 👍
  15. False relations, an important part of the English style once upon a time, very delicious 😊
  16. PS love the unexpected major third at 1'14" 😃
  17. My wretched opinon: favourite would probably be no.1 were it strung with rounds, but as things are I'll say, aren't Stingrays wonderful for music like this? ps After more listens back and forth, no.1 is my favourite, despite the flats Love the depth of the tone.
  18. Thank you for overcoming your powers of perception, and choosing not to take on board the tongue in cheek nature of my comment. Firstly, your concern that I'm too tight to cough up £7 to BassChat – you'll be pleased to hear that in lieu of purchasing access to the Marketplace I bought a pack of BC straplocks. Secondly, the bass I'm selling is not the kind of thing that sells on BC – I have kept a very close eye on what's offered here, and what actually sells, and have seen no evidence to suggest that listing the bass would be anything but a waste of time. Thirdly, something that doesn't sell here isn't going to be bought from Bass Direct by a BCer – my comment wasn't at all an attempt to help it shift. But you already knew that, and just used my post as excuse for you to show off that rich EBMM fans have no problem passing around their glossy objets d'arts. Fourthly, I'd rather pay 20% to a specialist retailer* than join Facebook *or receive a Domestos enema
  19. If someone could please buy the bass I'm selling through them, then I will be able to add my comments on how smoothly or otherwise receiving my money was 😁
  20. He wanted to pretend to play the sax but the MU rules wouldn't let him, hence the candelabra
  21. This is now 1.60 – 1.90 mm, and my weedy fingers are very pleased. I've noticed that I find fretting on a glossy maple board more effortful than on a nice matte rosewood board. I've never read anyone saying anything like this before, so I'm hoping to have opened up a whole new seam of whining complaint.
  22. The bassist has one of the finest stage names of all time
  23. Munurmunuh

    Weight

    I've just been searching for reports on the later white over maple version and found someone on TB saying, "When I bought mine from Sweetwater, they had 6 in stock. All 6 of them weighed between 11.5 – 12.5 lbs."
  24. Munurmunuh

    Weight

    " 🎵 ... How strange the change To Maple from Alder ... 🎶 "
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