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In 1985, there were available a handful of recent releases which I could have bought then, had I known what I would like, but which I overlooked, and only came to know and love later on: Powerslave - Iron Maiden (Sep 84) Ride The Lightning - Metallica (Jul 84) Killing Is My Business - Megadeth (Jun 85) Cyclone - Vow Wow (sometime 85) Head on the Door - The Cure (Aug 85) Meat Is Murder - The Smiths (Feb 85) First and Last and Always - The Sisters of Mercy (Mar 85) Psychocandy - The Jesus and Mary Chain (Nov 85) But this is what, in 1985, I actually spent my money on: Dream Into Action - Howard Jones

I'm worried that anyone could be training anyone else that its perfectly acceptable to tell people what to do with their own lives. If someone gets more pleasure tinkering with a unnecessarily large collection of instruments than they would struggling to turn themselves from a third rate player into a second rate player, so what? For all we know, the pleasure of thinking about lovely stuff helps sweeten the pill of their indifferent ability. Who are we to be poking our noses in? Who are we to say that we've worked out the best way to live? It's all very impertinent.

Shall I trust (a) Greg at Rocket Music in Blacksburg, Virginia (b) Opinionated Internet Guy? 🙄

I wish you had told me earlier that you were offering to pay the extra £235 so I could upgrade from USPS/Parcelforce. Bit late now.

I know.... I was just pretending to take your choice of insulting terminology to heart....

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He knew his voice was totally shot, but still gave a committed performance. Bravo!

Yet another irregular verb: I have carefully selected the right tools for my art, You like to indulge yourself in nice kit, He / she / it is undeserving fool wasting money to try to cover over their inability to practise.

I found the best way to think of that bass was that half the price went on the instrument and the other half went on the portrait of CW's bass that some artists lovingly placed over it.

I was expecting the comments to go mostly like that

It's currently very slow too, USA to UK using USPS. Something of mine was sent 17 March, and going by the tracking it's been waiting for space on a plane for most that time.

A pictorial representation of the inside of my head when I attempt to think of all the possible options available for all the factors affecting the vibration of a bass guitar string:

Is one cause of the perceived difference between maple and rosewood fretboards how securely the wood anchors the frets? One end of the vibrating metal is held by a nice big bit of metal, the other end by a fleshy finger pressing it against a thin strip of metal. Does all fretwire go the same distance into the fretboard? Does harder fretwire make a difference to the crispness of the attack? At the other end of the string, what are the factors affecting how well the string is anchored to the body? The softness of the wood, how the bridge is seated into it? (Does G&L's bridge, which has a broad foot that sits in the body, mitigate the effects of using softer woods?) If you seated both the bolt on neck and the bridge into a single piece of steel, what would that do to the vibrancy of the string? And how many 10s of 1,000s of instruments would you have to test in laboratory conditions before you were able to put all these factors into an order of importance? I'm very happy for absolutely none of these questions to be answered

"Unfortunately, the truss rod nut has failed out of warranty, having either come unthreaded or broken, and just spins freely in its collar. The hex socket isn’t stripped and the nut is captive, so can’t be repaired or replaced by itself. Yamaha say they don’t supply replacement necks and that to replace the truss rod will need the fingerboard to be removed, a job that’s beyond my skill level and my pocket. Although technically “playable”, the neck relief can’t be altered as the rod cannot be tensioned"

I rather like the third album, but I can't help calling it No Gar, No Good

Zazdrość by Hey, from the early 90s, lovely song, amazing voice, great harmonies in the second verse.

The 90" from 0'55"

1.2mm

The instrument they're on - very definitely not a P bass - needed flats to give the sound some depth - only once they were on did it sound like a bass. What I really need is to be shot of that instrument 🙄 Live and learn.

That mention of a P3 sent me on a wild google chase...took a while before the penny dropped

Shame I've got a £60 custom set of Chromes on one of my two basses 😐

Fair enough

A performance of The Rite Of Spring - a ballet which ends with one character dancing themselves to death - should be as exciting as this

Do you think that all the differences I'm hearing are simply to do with strings / player, with the instruments themselves being otherwise much of a muchness? (I wondered if the pickups might have noticeably different characters?) For what it's worth, I like both to listen to, but its the second sound (the one coming out of the P with the lighter fretboard) that I would like to be making