Grassie
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Those 5 string players are weird though, am I right?
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I agree. The headstock is slightly "metal", but it's the body shape that I really like. I quite like the inlays and I'm a total sucker for anything with binding. IMO Schecter should make it with their 4 in a row headstock that adorns their P and J models.
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Evening all, Anyone own or had experience playing one of these, either the standard model or the “extreme” version? They look like a decent bit of kit for the money and my head has been turned… 😊
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This thread got legs… Thanks for your input guys. 😊
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I find Lewis Capaldi and his awful, self-indulgent, bland, boring, depressing bellowing offensive.
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Don't you have Sleaford Mods currently flying the Nottingham flag?
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Morning! Exciting times here on the little ol' Isle of Wight - local heroes Wet Leg are currently smashing it, with one or two others bubbling under. Got me thinking about our musical heritage, and how many great musicians and bands managed to get on the ferry and live the dream. So, who are your hometown heroes? Obviously the London/Liverpool/Manchester contingents are going to be strong, but what about the small towns, or villages even? Here are the IOW's finest: Wet Leg Coach Party Snowy White David Steele (The Beat / Fine Young Cannibals) Jet Harris Richard Taylor Grade 2 The Bees Jon Thorne Stu Fisher (Ozric Tentacles / Hole) Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley (Hanoi Rocks) Mark King Phil and Boon Gould Delta T Go! PS: love the fact that BC autocorrects "D1ck Taylor" to "Richard Taylor"..... Good job F@nny Craddock wasn't from the island....
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Nope... Have a handful of projects on the go, one almost ready but we've had delays due to illness/covid/bereavements, a couple of others just starting. Did an open mic last night, first time in front of a (small) crowd for three years... How about you?
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Good day, fellow island dweller.
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Mine is fine.
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Infinity vibes...
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Thanks for all the comments, I am still going to mod it, but have scaled down my plans somewhat. Now looking at some passive pups (either Wilkinson or Toneriders) and a Ki0gon loom. I might still strip the paint off....
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But they don't do one in candy orange....
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IN: Epiphone EB3, Gear4Music acoustic bass (Ovation look-a-like) OUT: Nowt, although I have been trying to sell a Hohner Countryman acoustic guitar.....
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I had an Ibanez ATK 310 (the mint green one). Not a particularly good looking bass, but that pickup did a fine impression of a Stingray, and was easily the nicest neck I have ever played. Not that common right now, and Ibanez would do well to reintroduce it into their range. The only one I've ever really regretted selling.
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I've modded a VM Squier P bass before - new pups, Ki0gon loom, but the loom was probably the most expensive part of the mod. Ended up moving it on purely because my head had been turned by something else. Can't say it won't happen again, but GAS is a terrible thing...
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Afternoon all, I have a Squire Affinity jazz bass that I'm thinking of modding, but would like some opinions on whether you lovely people think it's worth spending money on (as it's an Affinity) I have a shopping list in my head: John East pre-amp (J Tone model) Compatible pickups (EMG/Barts/Nords) Headstock re-shape Paint strip and re-finish (with matching headstock) Eventual replacement of bridge and machineheads. The paint job and re-shape will have to be done professionally, as I don't have the tools/room to do it. The body and neck are all good and straight, although I won't know if the body is a 1/2/3 piece job until I strip it. Thoughts..?
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I'd be more interested in buying just the pickup/electrics on their own.
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Got to be this one. You could say you did it as a tribute…
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AC is right though - we are the men of the band, especially if your band is full of men. I'm in three men bands, but we're all as menly as each other. We strike our strings and hit our skins with such menly force, sometimes other men are scared of our power. And occasionally the non-men who see us wield our menly instruments pass comments such as "why has your guitar only got 4 strings?", or "my other half plays guitar, his is blue". Grrrrrr......
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His playing on Achtung Baby is great. Some lovely little grooves. 😊
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3-point bridges - why in God's name.....just why???
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I know I'm probably a bit of an outlier here, and I completely understand that folks have issues with these, but I've had the same three pointer on my 1987 TBird since...well, 1987. I've never had to do much to it. The action was low in 1987, it's still low now. On the other hand, I tried a hipshot on my NR bird a few years ago, and that was awful. Bloody great clunky thing that would have needed countersinking to get the action to the height it was with the original three pointer. I now have a Babicz on there which is a very nice piece of metalwork, but still quite idiosyncratic in its own way. Anyway, just my experience, completely accept that people might think I'm talking out of my hat.
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Watched this the other night, really enjoyed it. One thing that struck me though was Eddie Vedder's interview where he says part of the reason he felt guilty about Pearl Jam's success was that there were many other bands from Seattle that should've had the same amount of exposure as his band. Having watched the film I feel that the reason PJ, Soundgarden, Nirvana, and AIC were massive was because they were great bands with great songs. A lot of the bands featured in the documentary were actually pretty uninteresting and not that great.
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If you can find one, the Tokai Rockinbetters are supposed to be pretty decent. A friend of mine plays an Ibanez copy and that sounds great. There is a facebook page called Rickenfakers, there's loads of resource on there.
