Rich

Precisely. I've seen no "hate" here, just differences of opinion. 'Not to my taste' is a million miles from 'hate', and as for "especially on BC", that sound you can hear is me laughing.

Grandad - Clive (been and gone and) Dunn (it)

Damn, you beat me to it. He could have been in a thrash band.

Oh that's a bit harsh, Joe seems like a nice enough bloke.

2400 bucks and this is the best they could do. That's somewhere between a joke and an insult. Ah well, I'm sure it won't bother the dentists and lawyers who will be the ones buying it to hang on their walls or stick in their vaults.

Well you know what they say about a fool and his money.

@toneknob, is this your band?

Bloody hell. This is stunning. https://fb.watch/pEGsneG2Qd/

I saw a touring Italian Rush trib called 'La Villa Strangiato' last year, they were excellent right up until the guitarist's rig completely went on the fritz. These guys are just as good in every way. If they come to my neck of the woods, I'd definitely go check them out. Hopefully by then the vocalist won't need to crib the lyrics off a tablet. That bass tone is absolutely spot on. As an aside, my first band at school was called 'Emotional Feedback'. We weren't a Rush trib, we just liked the name. I suspect this bunch are rather better than we were.

Oh god, it keeps doing that. Hope you manage to get back to it at some point.

To me also.

People who have inspired or made an impact on me over the years... Horace Panter Mark King Tony Butler John Taylor Nick Beggs Geddy Jaco Jamerson Pino Marcus Miller Jonas Hellborg John Giblin Mo Foster Michael Manring

Oh good choice, sir. What a superb album. Bass tones to die for.

My band's Farcebook page is being inundated with things like this... The scammers get a temporary guest account from FB (Guest 4756 in this case); the temp account lasts for 24 hours, then disappears. If you click on the link, they gain access to control your FB account. Not much you can do about it as the guest account, now with access to your account, has gone. It's happening to loads of bands that we know, apparently it has been relentless this whole weekend. There are some absolute wucking fankers out there.

Having read this, I've realised that my signature is/was possibly a bijou bit on the, errm shall we say substantial side, so I've truncated it a bit.

Song of Blood - Linton Kwesi Johnson

Oh blige, those string angles are making me itch. I bet it gets through a lot of G strings.

And the reason for that is that he knows he'd have the devil's own job selling that cab. People generally just aren't buying huge heavy cabs any more, not like they used to. In terms of your actual query, yes, maHOOsive overkill. You can get perfectly good recorded results using amp and cab modelling.

I would far, far rather do three properly than 10 in a slapdash fashion. Obvs a lot depends on what the songs are, how familiar with them you all are, etc. I'm in a fledgling prog project, we've agreed to work on 3 songs with the first rehearsal two weeks from today, one of the songs is ten minutes long.

Gimme Some Money - Spinal Tap

Get thee to a prog band!

We all have favourite albums and favourites tracks from them. But what is your favourite sequence of 3 songs from an album? Not just your favourite 3 from an album, but 3 consecutive songs. Mine are Manhattan Project -> Marathon -> Territories, from Rush's 'Power Windows'. They're great songs anyway, but the three together are just a stunning combination. Over to you, BC Massive.

I meant, why is it turned facing the audience.

The only basses of mine that have anything approaching names are Jayray (because that's what it is... a 'Ray with a fretless Jaydee neck) and Skabass (because, errm, that's what it is... a 2-tone themed thing). All the others have names like 'the Spector' and 'the Shuke' and 'the Wal'.