Marvin

I do apologise if my comment put you off your dinner 🙂

Open to any 'heavy' music...right up to the point where the vocalist sounds like they're clearing a fur ball from their throat, retching, sounding like they're almost about to vomit, clearing mucus from the throat or any other similar noises.

I've still got mine. I probably won't sell as it's one with a signed neck plate. The 2nd generation seem quite popular now as well to be fair.

Has you Father in Law's band played at the Palladium in Bideford?

@Mace has a band called Fighters Foo I believe.

I don't think there is an answer to this. I owned a Fender Rumble 500 210 combo. They are loud and the sound for me was just lovely. However, it wasn't loud enough for the indie punk band I joined. I swapped the Fender for an Aguilar TH350 and Schroeder 1212L ( a 2x12). The latter was just stupid loud for it's size. It had no problems with two knuckle draggers using 2x12 cabs with 100w valve heads and a drummer who sat on his brain. It also managed quite a decent sized village hall not going through the PA with a 6 piece blues band. Apart from the noticeable difference in driver size between the 2 there were a lot of other reasons why the Aggie and Schroeder were louder. That said, I never really liked the Aggie and Schroeder, which is odd because in the last 10years it's the set up I've owned the longest and done most gigs with. Because I don't want the next band I'm in to be particularly loud I've gone for a Fender 210 cab and Peavey Minimax 500w head. It'll be more than enough for the places I'd likely be playing. That's no help is it...

My mum's never played a p bass, then again she's never played any instrument.

With the advent of streaming I'd have to say there is virtually no artist or band that I always buy. Having the opportunity to test drive it saves a few quid. For example, I would have said I always bought Richie Kotzen, but I didn't buy his last solo album 50 for 50. I listened to it on Spotify and there were some good songs, but much of it was a bit meh to me. Same for Radiohead. I've got up to King Of Limbs (which was a bit crap to be fair) but haven't bothered with the last effort. At the moment I know Rival Sons and Editors are recording new albums and in looking forward to having a listen, but that doesn't mean I'll buy them.

2 regrets @discreet 's 76 Fender P bass. Should have bought that one. A Warwick Corvette @xilddx offered. But there you go.

Put up with it or walk away. I have found that, even when trying to be a tactful as possible, bringing up the short comings of other band members is just not worth the hassle. Life is too short and there are other bands out there.

No Country & Western, complete fail.

I don't really know if my taste is diverse. Most of what I listen is quite melodic, which I always think is a throwback to my Mum always having Radio 1 on when I was young and she used to listen to things like ABBA. I tend to focus in on bands or artists rather than genres. That's why Spotify suggestions are a total waste of time for me. Just because I like artist A doesn't mean (and rarely does) mean I'll like artist B just because they supposedly play similar material. The vast bulk of my listening is rock or pop, but there's also blues, metal, soul/R&B, edm... I'm not keen on hip hop, rap, grime or jazz. Most other stuff is ok...I think. If I've eaten some vegetables I've been known to listen to folk music.

Rolling Stones or TTD?

I'm not even in a band so it's inactivity as usual for me 😁

I'd have more fishing gear

That looks disgusting...ly lovely. If I had the £s that's what I'd buy. Congratulations

Can't abide it. It's a complete anathema to what music is, or should be.

My bass sits high solely for my fretting hand. Any lower and I wouldn't have the reach to fret, and I'm very conscious of the strain I can feel if my wrist is at too much of an angle from playing low. Although this means that the bass is at the same height whether I'm sat or standing, it still feels completely different between the two. I don't have the same upper body posture, however much I try, sitting as I do standing. I feel cramped when playing sat down. Stood up I don't feel the same.

High, I suppose. A similar height to where Billy Sheehan has his bass. Any lower and my fretting hand really struggles. The downside is that my other arm can ache playing so high. It's a bit of a compromise.

Ibanez, in my experience, are a right royal pain in the A when it comes to getting spares. A few years back all I wanted was a battery compartment, as mine had snapped on my SR300. It took 5 months. My old SR300 started having issues with the tone/eq and pots. I tried Ibanez for parts, no joy. Look at alternatives. The alternatives were incredibly expensive. My SR300 pups worked in passive so I asked @KiOgon to make a passive wiring loom. I had 2 vol, 2 tone and one of the tone knobs was push/pull to go from series to parallel. It was brilliant. Just keep badgering Ibanez.

I'm a similar age. Britpop was everywhere in my 20s and I hated all of it. I really can't stand Blur. I turned to electronic music, trip hop, acid jazz...anything as long as it wasn't Britpop. Perhaps it's a regional thing as Britpop didn't seem to take off as such in the part of the south west I live in. Everyone turned to raves and dance music. There's always been a strong punk/indie scene where I live, and moving on to electronic music seemed to be the thing. I know lots of old punks who turned to electronic music rather than Britpop back in the 90s

I too hated the whole Britpop 'scene'. The music was just stuff recycled from the 60s/70s and the attitude that somehow they 'spoke' to British yuuf better than American bands I found utter crap. Gallagher was on Absolute Radio* this morning. He's going down the road of British, white, male, over 50s pop music icon, who spouts utter drivel and only proving how cringingly thick he is. No Noel, wearing a mask and having a covid vaccine is not virtue signalling. Perhaps read a book, something we all know you pride yourself on not doing, but maybe just once. *I don't normally listen to the radio, but I do have Absolute on in my work van. I can be bothered changing the station.

I was in a band several years ago and the guitarist suggested I give Rival Sons a listen, I too dismissed them as Led Zep wannabes. Last year, during lockdown, I just happened to listen to them on shuffle on Spotify and was hooked. They're excellent, I particularly like their last album. Unfortunately I've not got to see them live, maybe in the future.

Was that intended to come out as sneering snobbery, because that's how it reads?

Second hand, Squier Classic Vibe, and if it's a Jazz then the Vintage Modified from about 2010 seem to sell for your budget (considering they were about £230 new they've maintained their value) SX come sometimes A second hand Sire V7, but they don't come up very often it seems. New, Sire V3 is £260ish from Andertons. Squier Affinity or VM maybe ? There's hardly a badly made instrument out there anymore...not like my Westone Spectrum II I bought in 1990 which was utter rubbish