Beedster

..............might need a second bottle soon

Stick a tonerider in there for a few quid outlay and it'll sound as good as the day it left the factory

Have to say that as the result I now like Yes more than was the case at about 2.00pm last Saturday. I think i need to pull together a good playlist to be honest. Also, playing the parts has always worked for me, I've had to play music by several bands that I really didn't like at the time, only to find that, as if by magic, they've grown on me. Might get to grips with some of CS's lines, many of which are stunning

No I don't think you did mate

Care to explain that Chris (pulls up comfy chair, opens bottle of red, cancels appointments for rest of day)

Absolutely, I love early Miles by the way, the later stuff makes more sense to me, but I like it less. Topical, but Van Halen without Dave Lee Roth were not, to my mind anything like as good as the real Van Halen. Others will disagree

Not sure why he needs a reserve, there's two days to go and shed loads of watchers, very few serious bids go on until quite late in the day anyway. It'll go for a decent price, perhaps higher than had he put on a reserve and put off all the early small bidders, many of whom have now got their hearts set on it. And yes, that was autobiographical

Odd post Mikel, it's exactly because people (like you) say things like the first paragraph above that I made what you clearly see as the error you describe in the second. If it is the ultimate prog album, I want to understand why. And to clarify, I came at it with exactly the right attitude, and given that like so many people in this thread I love the music of Rush, it's certainly not a genre issue. I didn't like Miles Davis at all (did everyone sense Bilbo's attention being drawn back in just then?), I seriously had to try to like his music. Reading about it, listening to it with people who love it and could describe why in emotional and not mechanistic terms, and trying to overcome prejudice (musical, not colour I hasten to add) based on my musical experience and preferences to that point, all mean that much to my daughters' annoyance, Sunday PM in the kitchen tends to be Miles Davis time for Daddy, replacing Sunday morning which tends to be Taylor Swift. So, I reserve the right to try and like something that previously I didn't.

I've watched that about 10 times now and find it funnier each time. I laughed so much the first few times that I completely missed the parrots, in fact each time I watch it there's something new. And no joke, the keys are EXACTLY the same as a keys player we had in the 80's, who would not only suddenly swamp the entire stage with unexpected and entirely unnecessary orchestral hits, but would do so with the most extraordinary flounce of his hand as if to say "hey everybody, look at me, I'm a virtuoso". He also accidentally set fire to my hair mid-gig at City of London Polytechnic but that's another story. Mr Smalls, thanks mate, I owe you one

Which, one way or another, is why we post a vid of ourselves playing EVH, why we start a thread about people who post vids of themselves playing EVH, if why we disagree with someone else who posts in that thread

This is a nice clip

You might want to put a link in a sticky

Yep, reminds me of Michael Douglas and his alleged carcinogenic activities

People just want to feel part of it mate, in the pre-internet/pre-covid days, everyone would gather outside the house or record company or studio, it's just people's way of managing their own stinky poo. I find the easiest way of not getting annoyed by it is to never look at social media, and by the way, I include BBC News 24 in that category, they increasingly report this sort of thing as if it's news "Person does something on internet that annoyed other person"

Absolutely, larger than life, great music, and mostly smiling all the way, they appeared to be both totally in love with the genre whilst often parodying it at the same time. DLR (and we're not talking train lines) was possibly the best front man ever, and EVH was likely the single most heard guitarist of the 80's - Jump, Beat It etc - up against some pretty stiff opposition that decade.

Unless your name was Mr Rubbish Nut

Awful, slots not straight, blank too wide for neck so all slots shifted towards treble side with nut overhanging, G and D slots close to same width.

Mesa Boogie 1516EV Broke my car with one in 2011, lost one to a courier in 2013. Love the hifi tone from a big back ugly box that's only marginally smaller than Luxembourg and has the aesthetics of a Soviet tank regiment

Why are bassists so obsessed with compression?

Exactly my point (more flawed physics I'm sure, there's never a physicist around when you need one is there)

Agree, that was in part the basis of my comment re my old Wal. It's all about energy, the world's most resonant bass can only do so in response to the energy put into it, it's not creating it's own. I get the argument that some instruments might simply soak up that energy resulting in no sustain but also no discernible improvement in other parameters, but is it possible that some basses transfer that energy in a different way, less sustain but a more pronounced envelope?

Well as the OP (A) I’ve found it useful, and without the tendency towards the above format we’d have no need for a bass forum really

But few who have done it as reliably as Eurosender

Did someone say Goblins?

Part of my reason for posting this thread was this: Whether we agree that sustain is desirable in bass playing or not - and I agree that all other things being equal it's better to have it and not use it than vice versa, as long as all other things are indeed equal - there's a definitive sense of 'better instruments sustain more' that posits sustain as a de facto desirable thing. I'm not convinced. There's an argument that better engineered systems (instruments) resonate more in a previous post, but that's perhaps a by-product of some instruments and not a design feature of all; it is an argument that seems to have become widely accepted however. But you could equally argue that better engineered systems should resonate less; most engineers would prefer the latter, especially those that build bridges :) My second Wal fretless, a MK1, was, like all Wals, a wonderfully engineered and crafted instrument, it was a joy to play and had the most amazingly evocative and nasal tone. But it did not sustain at all, it was articulate as flip, really spoke when I played it, and I loved it, because frankly I found it so much easier to play because it didn't sustain. I also wonder - and this is the 'all other things being equal above - whether the absence of sustain added something to the tone and articulateness, and to the amazing ability that bass had to put what I played straight out of my speaker (it was the first bass on which I was ever able to play Rhythm Stick, and it was fretless!). I have a mandolin that doesn't sustain at all, a US made Breedlove, so again a very well built instrument, and one that I love; my previous mandolin would ring out for several seconds comfortably but again was harder to play. I get that in some situations sustain is desirable and in others it's not, but this isn't about that. I've just never bought the idea that sustain is a de facto indicator of quality in the way some people argue it is. Thoughts?