Beedster

Al's an absolute star, great to finally meet, sorry it wasn't for a more substantial period of time. Next time mate 👍

And I'm so sorry to have had so little time Al, would have loved to have shared a bite and a beer mate, perhaps next time. Hope you enjoy that bass and that especially lovely neck 👍

I think a BC Bash at Duxford and Cosford in in order? We tend to hit the Folkestone show each year as my wife's Mum live's right under it, and two or three years back they had a Victor. Man, it was impressive, not Vulcan impressive, but up there. Those Cold War designs were extraordinary

I'm more interested in the fact that a performer is suing his own record company for the fact that he doesn't sell as much as one of his rivals. Whether we like the music in question or not, it strikes me as another nail in the coffin of the music industry. Each new nail results in an increasingly risk-averse music industry, and an increase in the promotion of safe, generic, offend nobody & please everybody, dull music (more Ed Sheeran essentially)

Depending on when the audition is I'll do you one at cost, and it really won't be much, certainly less than a new Squier 👍

Do a bitsa version of the one in the photo, easy and cheap to do, it's a PBass so all you need for it to sound decent is a decent PUP and tuners that hold. Most of my bitsas - and FFS I have made a lot of the bloody things - were cheap and pretty decent by comparison with even used prices for equivalent quality instruments 👍

It's why I didn't get famous, zero sum game between me and bloody Pastorius

Exactly..... In the old days they used to write (often quite clever) diss tracks that made them both shitloads of cash. Fast forwards and Drake's suing his own record company - essentially because his diss tracks sold less well than Lamar's diss tracks - so he (Drake), and possibly both, are about to lose shitloads of cash? But interesting that the allaged slander/libel (never sure which is which), isn;t the subject of the case......?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cje08q8qnzqo I have my own theory as to the why and the what here but it potentially sets an interesting precedent?

When in the US I rhyme it with manger, as in ‘away in a….’ In France I rhyme it with manger as in ‘Pret a…’ In the UK I rhyme it with hanger as do all proper English speakingers 👍

He was a man of his time 👍

Yep, they were designed to intimidate as much as to operate. It works. When we saw the final flight, the image that came to mind as I watched it bank towards the shoreline was of the battle dragons in the Lord of the Rings movies, it really is a very ominous shape in flight, and provokes some fairly primeval emotions 🦅

...and I have to say big thanks to Rob at Status, who's helping my identify what might, or might not be, a very slight issue with the electrics on this

Yep, this is a very large instrument, and yes, I get the draw of physicality, it's in part why I love to play upright 👍 And the new-year sale? Who knows, if I like it it'll stay, if I don't, or I can't tame it, it might go. It's certainly going to be around for the duration of the current project. Time will tell........... 🤔

Agree with all of that 👍 First thing I noticed was the PUP cover also. I wonder if - given the physicality of JE's playing - it simply reduced the chances of him damaging the PUP during a set. This would be kinda ironic given that the rest of the rhythm section were doing just the opposite at many gigs, but then JE was of a very different type to Moon and Townsend...... 🤔

I wonder what the dudes over at Talkbass are making of this thread 😁

There's a lot of truth there also, was certainly the case when I had a P-Retro, just allowed me to always have the core Precision tone that was in my head, with small tweaks - usually in the mids - for the environment 👍

I've always assumed that's the case 👍

Passive sometimes, active others, depends on the music, and just occasionally the band/venue. But mostly the music 👍

......well, it's an extremely good instrument for Jazz, extremely low action allowing greater technical ambition (for me anyway), huge tonal variety, and an audio range more associated with ERBs. Just not what I bought it for

I did a trial of bows valued up to around £1500 with Caswells and ended up buying a £300 model that felt best of them all to me

We saw the final flight of the Vulcan a few years back. Several thousand people rammed onto a cold beach in north Kent. People were tracking the flight on their phones, and it suddenly went quiet. Everyone looked left to see an ominous - almost buzzard like - shape baking over the Thames estuary. It flew towards us and banked left showing the crowd the awesome silhouette/profile (and bomb doors). The entire crowd was silent, still, and tense until it had flown another 20 second or so, allowing us to experience the blast of the engines. At that moment, no joke or exaggeration, several thousand people were struggling to hold it together, there were Dad's trying to pretend not to cry to their kids, kids screaming with excitement at each other, and a few older folks for whom this was the end of an era proudly letting the tears fall. It was a pretty unexpected and powerful moment. You can even see the Vulcan/Buzzard similarity....