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Munurmunuh

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  1. Jimmy Page, Houses of the Holy, 30th birthday, Physical Graffiti
  2. 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
  3. January Cocker turned thirty before he hit his peak. Turned 30 in 1993, His'n'Hers in 1994, Different Class in 1995
  4. 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
  5. How many of your truly great albums did you write after turning thirty?
  6. 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.
  7. "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.
  8. I filled this in in a minute or two on Sunday and it arrived in the post today 👍
  9. False relations, an important part of the English style once upon a time, very delicious 😊
  10. PS love the unexpected major third at 1'14" 😃
  11. 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.
  12. 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
  13. 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 😁
  14. He wanted to pretend to play the sax but the MU rules wouldn't let him, hence the candelabra
  15. 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.
  16. The bassist has one of the finest stage names of all time
  17. 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."
  18. Munurmunuh

    Weight

    " 🎵 ... How strange the change To Maple from Alder ... 🎶 "
  19. I had a couple of their albums when I was 13 and enjoyed them. I've always been a very long way away from any position of power, you'll be pleased to hear. Like Clockwork seems to me to have aged better than some of their others: I've not got any metrics by which to judge whether something is punk or not, but it would be quite an achievement for a band formed in Dublin in 1975 to be Hochpunk.
  20. When new my Yamaha had the EXL170 set (45•65•80•100) as stock. I found there was too much of a break in character between the mellow E–A and the lively D–G for me I changed them for a EXL165 set (45•65•85•105) which I much preferred: the A and the D now seemed to have more in common Both times the strings started off with a very bright top and mellowed out before long, losing the jangle without becoming characterless.
  21. Munurmunuh

    Weight

    You've the older MIJ blue sparkle Steve Harris, yes? I wonder how much on top of your 10.6 lbs the current white-painted maple model would weigh.
  22. On my TRBX, going from the one really good sound to the other required: flicking from passive to active, turning the blend from all neck to slightly favouring bridge, and turning the dual purpose knob from Tone 10 to Treble -4. In reality, not something possible mid performance. The alternative though would have been three EQ knobs and a blend knob for the active and then another blend knob and a tone knob for the passive. Seven knobs and one switch.... 😕 Perhaps mid EQ and bass EQ could be one stacked pair, and treble EQ and tone another?
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