Beedster

I did try a few posts above mate

Apparently not

Yes, very good, but I didn't know that at the time, and going on price assumed them to be not very good. In the context of this thread, I was simply saying "Don't assume the PUPs are not good just because they're not what you expected"

I tend to struggle with the word 'trajectory', scuppered my career in ballistics.

100%, you'll probably spend a while finding and installing the 'original' PUP only to find you preferred the imposter. I bought a bass with a dirt cheap (to my mind) pair of PUPs a couple of years back, I looked at them in disgust, played the bass for a while, was impressed, but wondered just how much better it would sound with some Nordstrands. Two days later, courtesy of Bass Direct, a pair of Nordstrands were in the bass and, f**k me sideways if I didn't prefer the cheapies (Toneriders by the way). So I thought I'd check, reinstalled the Toneriders and yes, for that bass, with those strings, the lovely vintage feel of the Toneriders knocked the socks off their 400% more expensive Scandinavian counterparts, which came across as a little sterile by comparison. Assumption, as they say, is the mother of all pink torpedo-ups

He had it going on, it's easy top praise the Jacos and Stanleys, but Sir Horace's style of tight, precise and 100% necessary bass playing is the bed rock of good live music

For songs with stinky poo loads of repetitive 8ves I alternate in no particular order. Works for me Root Index - 8ve Middle Root Thumb - 8ve Index Root Thumb - 8ve Middle Root Index - 8ve Ring Root Thumb - 8ve Ring

I think we need a thread intermission

If we're going down the B-52s route we're going to be here a while

Legally, if he was not prosecuted, Billy is correct, 'we' didn't, 'they' did?

But whilst we're on science, I doubt Thomas Dolby was ever actually blinded by it, in part because a concept cannot materially affect the function of a sense organ, but also when I met him two years after that song charted it was pretty clear that his vision was fine

You need to read my thesis to realise that it probably would

45 seconds with my 6-year old daughter and her yellow tambourine will suffice

You cannot therefore question it, it is true by definition. Please go to the 'Factually Correct Lyrics' thread.

Not in 1968 it wasn't

Bono, you can't live with me, you can't live without me, and yet you're still alive?

You are actually factually incorrect Skank. Vending machine plum merchandising was a short-lived initiative by the BPGA (British Plum Growers Association, who for legal reasons must not be confused with the Plum Growers Association of Britain), who in 1979, and demonstrating a complete failure to understand the then emergent research into the neuroscience of addiction combined with extraordinarily flawed logic - specifically if addictions to chocolate and nicotine are both widely recognised, and if both are widely sold in vending machines at transport hubs, then the mechanisms of addiction was the location of the machine itself - sought to get the entire nation addicted to plums. Even if the idea itself was daft, any chances of success were of course completely washed away by the great plum crop failure of Spring 1980

The ******** in Canterbury certainly has a smell, my amp picked it up last time we played there, could smell the pub for about a week afterwards

Yes, but the level of scrutiny of Down in the Tube Station simply wasn't there then mate. This thread is in a different league, and will likely lead to revised thinking as to the (supposed) authenticity of Weller's lyrics; the in-depth scrutiny of inconsistencies between his lyrics and the realities of the London Underground at the time of writing presented here suggests the possibility that, at the very same time he was adopting a 'man of the people' stance in his lyrics, he might well have been luxuriating in chauffeur driven limos between Boney-M gigs at Hammersmith Palais and Weller Towers?

Clearly not

Best thread ever

Your drummist must love you Steve

Yep

Ouch

Ha ha, which is why I changed it