EssentialTension

Some basses look better in the dark.

Much better on the eyes, thank you.

I had an Epiphone Embassy in ivory finish, which I liked a lot but I had to give up long scales due to health issue. ..... but I can't find a picture of it.

Interesting, thanks for posting.

In Birmingham, as a teenager in the late sixties, I too recollect it as 'heavy rock' which in effect meant 'serious rock' as opposed to 'popular rock'. 'Heavy' as opposed to 'light' in seriousness. And 'heavy' was not limited to rock. You could be a singer-songwriter and be 'heavy', if you were serious enough e.g. Dylan. So to call something 'heavy' was to call it serious, with the implication that it was 'better'. There was no mention of metal. There was a Birmingham record shop called Heavyhead; a 'head' being someone who was into 'heavy' i.e. serious music. Owned if I recall correctly by Bev Bevan. 'Man, that's really serious man'. Your mileage may vary.

I had a Bass VI tuned in fourths - EADGCF - for a while, but soon went back to B and E on the high strings.

Were The Heavy Metal Kids .. er ... heavy metal kids? Just asking for a friend, obvs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_music#Etymology

Why Black Sabbath hated being a 'heavy metal band'

What about the halfway house of the beat group, or, daringly, the beat combo?

I had no idea of the death, due to I never heard of the band before.

It is great but it's also indebted to the history of rock and roll ...

If I were going to do that, which I never would, I'd get a luthier (or at least a guitar tech) to preprepare a bass for easy smashing. Maybe even with a few hinges so it's not really broke but just unhinged and easily folds back together like a Transformer.

That's all very well and good luck with it, but what about the tambourine?

https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/jack-ashford

... and golf.

Judging by the trousers, he liked a round of golf in the afternoon.

I'd say that the problem is not the tambourine. The problem is people have no idea how to play it, but think it must be easy, which it's not.

Jack Ashford on tambourine at 1.45 ...

Lots of Motown tracks

They were wrong wrong wrong but still never more than half a tone away from a right note.

Play the root notes with solid timing = get hired. Over playing = get fired.

Trust me, I have tried but it really doesn't work.

Very nice, although I can't say I like the pickguard.

My 2008 Precision American Vintage Reissue had a V serial number. You need to see the neck heel for an actual date but it looks more 2000s and very little 'original 50s'.