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  1. On 17/06/2020 at 12:28, Iacopo San said:

    I just quoted exactly what you wrote, so I don't know how you can say that you didn't say it.

    I understand your point, but if I judge him as an alcoholic, for me he is a tool. If I judge him as a person, he's a racist sad man. If I judge him as a musician, it doesn't do anything for me.

    If you like him, man, musician or alcoholic, that's good man. I don't want to argue. I was just expressing my view.

    He was on a mission of self-harm fuelled by decades of substance abuse and self-lothing. He was drunkenly trying to destroy everything that defined him... everything he identified with. And the thing that was most dear to him was inherently racialised... black American music and the people who invented it.

    I dunno... 44 years of contrition... is that enough?

  2. 4 hours ago, CameronJ said:

    Just had a thought. I love the idea of Luminlay fret markers but am not a fan of them only coming in blue or green. Come to think of it, most things that “glow in the dark” tend to be blue, green or yellow. Think party glowsticks or even the arms on an analogue wristwatch. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a “glow” product in white - is there a scientific reason for this? Hmmm...

    Yes... basically (ignoring the quantum mechanics) glow in the dark materials absorb photons and re-emit them slowly in a very narrow bandwith. Strontium aluminate emits at 520 nm, which is green. White light is a mixture of light at all different wavelengths of the visible spectrum. You just don't get materials that will do that. It might be possible to produce a material that holds red, blue and green phosphorescent materials in such a way that the emitted light appears white, but it probably wouldn't be anywhere near as strong as the plain green variety.

     

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  3. Zooming in on the headstock, the patent numbers are visible:

    2960900: Filed in 1958, that's for the body contours

    2972923: That's for the tremolo system you find on offset Fender guitars... on a P bass????????????? LOLOLOLOL!!!

    3143028: Is for the adjustable bolt on neck

     

    I reckon the decals have been pieced together from a replacement Jazzmaster decal (minus 2573254) or from a generalised decal set that were never meant to fool an expert.

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  4. 1 hour ago, Paul S said:

    I'd be interested to hear if there is anyone who HAS seen the new documentary and feels the allegations have been made up.  A lot of people who haven't watched it are quick to dismiss it, it seems.

    I've watched the first half. I don't think for one minute that the allegations are made up. It was harrowing.

  5. He has nice technique. Using rest strokes and a floating anchor. I'd also say he is using quite a light touch and letting his amp do the work.

    As to "sustainable"... absolutely, as long as you've built the calluses up. If, like me, you're lazy when it comes to practicing when you don't have a gig, you need to build back up to being able to play fingerstyle for any length of time.

  6. 12 hours ago, bubinga5 said:

    Absolutely absurd parallel.Shrewd and Savvy are not words I would use to describe Micheal Jackson in these years.The guy was a wreck.  Its well documented (although Adolph never wrote anything down) that Adolf Hitler was responsible for ordering through his henchmen the deaths of millions of Jews. There is no evidence that Micheal Jackson molested children. Pure conjecture.  He was still a child mentally himself, especially as his mental health deteriorated . This was normal behaviour for him, to have a sleep over with kids, and there is no evidence that the sleepovers were of a sexual nature.

    Trying to say some bloke down the road who slept with young boys compared to a very unstable man who was lets face it, was mentally destroyed by his father and the media and cocooned into a whole different world of total fantasy is equally absurd. Im no MJ super fan, but its not hard to see what he was and what happened to him over 20+ years. . He was innocent, but not in the same way the law sees it. He shouldn't have put himself in that situation, but he wasn't a so called evil molester of children. imo

    Have you watched the documentary? The guy was a monster.

  7. There are a lot of uncomfortable examples of musicians behaving in ways that are deplorable. One of the stranger ones that I have trouble getting to grips with is Eric Clapton's drunken, racist rant at a gig in Birmingham in 1976. He's talked about it many times since and while he seemed to be trying to explain it away in interviews at the time, he has since said that he is disgusted by his behaviour, that it didn't make sense and has apologised. He was, by all accounts, on a spiral of self-hatred and self-destruction that most people don't survive. Should he be forgiven for it?

    Note: there are articles out there that purport to have transcripts of the outburst... they don't really tally with reports of the show where he was supposed to be mostly incoherent and slurring. I have looked for bootlegs of the show but none appear to exist.

     

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  8. Kingston town by UB40... I prefer the original by Lord Creator, but it was relatively unknown... There's a heart-warming story about the effect that UB40 had on him...

    "In 1989, the British group UB40 recorded Kingston Town. There is a story that after this, Eccles saw Creator, who had become homeless and destitute, on a Kingston street. When Eccles called out to him, Creator fled thinking Eccles had come to collect $30 he owed him. Eccles chased him down and told him UB40 had recorded Kingston Town and that Creator had earned substantial royalties. With the money he earned in royalties, Creator revitalized his life and career. He appeared in oldies shows in Jamaica, and even toured Japan." https://www.westburymusic.net/ArtistDetails?Aid=WBM_AR_274

     

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  9. 6 minutes ago, lemmywinks said:

     

    I think paedos and nazis is probably a good place to draw the line personally.

    Quite. I won't listen to Lost Prophets, Gary Glitter or Michael Jackson. I won't listen to Wagner, Skrewdriver or English Rose.

    There are grey areas when you get into historical figures. Wagner was overtly antisemitic and wrote a rather nasty article on the subject which, while antisemitism was not unusual in Germany at the time, does show he had a special interest in it...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Judenthum_in_der_Musik

    Others who are associated with nazism like Carl Orff (Carmina Burana), are less cut and dried... he had friends/associates in the White Rose resistance against the third reich and may have been a member. I'm not sure I can fault him for keeping his head down when his friends were being executed and it's clear that the general population were not aware of the extent of the horrors being perpetrated by their government.

     

     

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