Musicman666

for me it's justin chancellor .. don't get me wrong, i love the sounds he produces but i look at what he's playing and it doesn't seem to look all that challenging in contrast to his fan base which seem to think it is.

terrible news RIP Steve ..!! ...and RIP Karl Wallinger two of the best singer song writers gone in the space of a few days.

well my bass history is a series of regrets ..started off by selling a beautiful Olympic white musicmaster in the early 80s to get a squire first edition Olympic white precision ..then on to a westone thunder iii followed by a wal pro traded in for the stingray that i still have today ..but i would honestly welcome any of those ex basses back into my fold in a heartbeat. Was it love?..no it was necessity on account of me being a tad poor in my youth.

front block bass player side .. i think right at the back is 150 ish.

well i have been watching closely but totally open to having my mind changed on this. Not being a drummer yes he seem very able but so do many others in many other what people might consider less technical bands. Definitely think this is a sum of the parts type deal.

just watching some tool on yt ..quite impressive but what came out of this was a realisation that these guys are just normal guys not playing what i would say is outrageously difficult stuff ...but somehow through coordinated focus they rise above it all and produce something quite extraordinary ... so when on an interview justin seems to come across as a fairly regular guy ..well no surprises there. I was in fact going to go for a ticket at their upcoming london show till i saw the price ...300 quid a ticket ..jeez.

i have a few killer basses and some just stay in their cases unplayed for yonks ...then suddenly i will get one out and fall in love with it all over again not being able to put it down.

yep..in the late 90s i part exchanged a wal for a stingray thinking they are so cheap now that i can pick up another whenever ..boy did i get that one wrong.

thanks guys ...my curiosity has now been satisfied!

just curious..googled it but couldn't see the answer.

quite a generalisation i know but i always considered the brits trying to be a bit different whereas the yanks try to conform, and i don't think country music has ever really been as widely accepted in the uk although i can see there has recently been a push to promote it..yikes.

no but the luthiers Rolex's are.

i started to get various aches and pains with old age ...after dosing up on across the board supplements including collagen the pains abated. Not sure what i was lacking exactly but levels in your body do start to wain as you get older so maybe try this.

couldn't help thinking that maybe it was over tightened ..does happen but for that to happen you need to be as dumb as me.

i have rung up a vendor about a faulty keyboard ...after some investigation it embarrassingly turned out to be some low profile packaging left under the keys that i didn't know was there ..sometimes videos are exchanged just in order to see if its something daft ..no point in returning something that might be ok ..the vendor assumes everyone is a potential idiot which i can well understand.

i suspect it depends on the humidity when it was manufactured relative to your controlled environment...in my experience mm is the biggest offender by far.

whenever I wander around a music shop I often just grab basses and guitars off the wall to play ..sometimes I get one that's a real player.. then I look at the price ..and then I quickly put it back on the wall.

I have seen this exact same problem on a few of my thick poly finish guitars in south east Asia.. most notable on a stingray ..in fact its quite common to witness others with the same exact issues on the local guitar forums down there. The culprit I suspect is the high peak humidity's in that area of the world ..if the bass is manufactured in a dry environment or country abroad, sealed up in a poly finish and then exported to a humid country..as the solid body takes in water it expands.. I have even had neck plates crack with this force of nature.. if I hadn't see this with one my own eyes I wouldn't have believed it.

ever considered drop d standard?

boomer pension funds are scewing the bass market right now ..

they may have done once but not anymore according to a chat i and last week with them ...apparently their jig has busted?

they may have done once but not anymore according to a chat i and last week with them ...apparently their jig has busted?

yeah ..i will investigate ..thanks.

just looking at the hooky headstock ..cant see any tapering going on so i think these strings wont fit.

is there are large markup for handwound custom sets?