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Trying to make up for lack of bass with a Hammerhead song called "Brest", the drums and the bass groove are ace. Last one I promise, feck I'm trying to make thing more normal as if I want them to be, enjoy - it's a good exercise.

Whoops. Nearly forgot. You need som Assfactor 4 after all of that. 

Sorry for spamming. Over to Dorothy: well, that didn't work but it's around 11:50. 

I've gone to far, timestamp failure. Jesus I'm aging. 

Dorothy lyrics:

To be ok with it any more, and not hopelessly clicking heels is alright.

not wondering in and out of bars with f***ers saying I'm confused.

I don't have to f***ign account for more than one thing on my mind and someone elses idea of being "confused" made me the luckiest kid in the god damn state

Dear Grandpa is a lyrical favourite: "What they told me in their smoke signals - I just coughed" and "My mind's made up, I can't decide." 

"f*** hate breeders" is an absolute marvel:

How can you live your life with hate as its base with silly anthems of the numb? your existence is spineless your heart is pathetic, your nothing without love. You knew for all this shit about responsibility that you float. above on bubbles made of cellophane you deserve all of the boredom you can spread on a bagel and shove it up your ass.

❤️

Yes, I'm fifteen one when I listen to the music that will be with me all my life. Not sorry for that. But I apologise for spamming. Especially if no-one doesn't find a trace of something that made something tingle and got them to search for more. 

Slightly weird and brilliant hardcore punk from Morgantown, West Virginia. Year 1986. They could play.  

An old favourite I'll always come back to. Italian anarcho punk from '92. 
The best two best female hardcore/punk vocals I've heard. 

(I only listen to the first two songs though. Not that the other two aren't any good, I'd just rather listen to the first two again.)

Play it loud!

I don't really want a funeral. I'd rather have people I love have a party. 

But if there was to be a funeral I'd like Jugband Blues as the last and maybe only song. I'd be wearing a Liverpool shirt.

I'd need to hire six strong men to lift the coffin at the right time (when the jug band starts playing) and skip happily towards the exit with my remains bashing around inside it.

Then stop as Barrett starts to sing again. And walk in a who cares manner to the car that will take me to the cremation. 

I want my ashes spread in the river that runs through my city and into the sea. That's the only thing that is important to me. It's probably not legal which is a plus. Anyone attending should have plenty of drinks.

Edit:

Walk in music: Neurosis, "Lost". Find the first samples fitting and love the song.

and I'd have this one as well:

6 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

I saw them in Bristol several years ago. That's kind of their thing. Loads of smoke and even less chords than Status Quo.

I'm not sure they're really doom, it's more like experimental soundscape type stuff.

Worked on a metal festival in 2005 lasting three or four days - they played on the last day. Drunk and wrecked people were lying everywhere so we thought excessive use of smoke cannons was a bad idea and turned them off to prevent people get trampled over. The room was filled with smoke when the decision was made and it made for an interesting half hour at work.

To their credit they were loud enough to make most people pinch their eyes anyway so no smoke was really needed .

Man they were loud.

Which reminds me of an anekdote: A friend did lights at a Motorhead show and asked their sound engineer if they were always this loud and got told they used to be way louder in a manner that made me laugh:

"It wasn't LOUD, it was like -squints eyes and shouts desperatly- YOU COULDN'T SEE!!".

For further interesting info , look up the Tensor Tympani muscle which is usually coming into work when people squint their eyes because of noise. I can control it without squinting and probably many here can out of necessity for blocking loud noise/music. It produces a "distant thunder like" sound. 

double post. -sigh-

1 hour ago, Buddster said:

Oh i hate that song as well

😁

I thought for the better of mankind I'd remove it, but I am now forced to release it. 😁

The "song" got stuck in my brain for more than a month, every silent moment it appeared, and I had to actively think of other crap songs to replace it. 

I hope my vaccination from being exposed to it keeps it out, and I hope this Russian weapon of madness inducing pain doesn't leave a wake of mad people here.

It's on YouTube and it's called "Trololo". 

If you find it fascinating and amusing you are standing too close to the hellfire.

please ignore. 

One of my favourite albums and I hope someone here loves it.

ps. it likes being played loud and probably your preferred streaming service will sound better. 

Complete stranger here, and I don't know the situation but I'm sorry to hear it's come to this for you.

I maybe speaking out of place, feels like it and I hope you do not take offence of a stranger butting in.., but I think you should keep a your favourite bass or a bass you love the sound of as I think you're going to miss it.

I mostly play guitar these days. No band. Sold my bass/es once. Missed it and I bought another and blew a lot of money on it. When making music and recording at home a guitar with an octaver soon becomes a reminder of..no bass. Ended up buying a new more expensive bass to rectify. Still miss the Sabre and will "never" buy another one.

I wish you the best no matter what you do. Keep making music and enjoying it.

Revisiting "A Journey Into Fresh Diggin : Quasimoto Meets Himself" by Dj Troubl for the first time in years.

Very not me at the time I heard it being into punk at the time (and still am) but still caught me by doing something that shook things up. I haven't a clue or any interest in who DJ Trouble is, but he did give me a treat of jazz music and cool samples. I don't know where they're from but "Come on feet, cruise for me (do your thang!) - trouble is nowhere to be!" made sense and made me smile and still does. 

Here's a link to the album on. Soundcloud, give it a whirl if you're into som freshness of the 90's or naughts I can't remember:

https://soundcloud.com/djtroubl/a-journey-into-fresh-diggin-quasimoto-meets-himself 

My best friend used to listen to him when we were in our teens, more than 30 years ago.

I loved Sebastian but hadn't listened to It since until now.

It really is a beautiful song.

The power music has to evoke memories, takes me back in a flash.

I brushed with Steve Earl a bit more than intended when I accidentally locked him and myself in in a tiny space between two sets of sliding glass doors.

His security entourage's hurried movements outside of the building told a tale of stress and worry.

I'd intentionally locked them out of the building so that part went right whether they were happy about it at that point in time or not.

We had a brief chat Steve and I. I said "I'm sorry about this". He said "Its ok". 

Didn't feel quite as good at the time as it may sound tbh. Time really stands still sometimes when in the presence of great artists.

Halla @Rolf! Welcome!

Nice basses! 7 is a healthy number. 

We seem to share the same approach of lurking/reading/learning. I'm mainly doing that and have added the skill of releasing those emoticons.

Lots of good people here. Enjoy!

5 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said:

They're playing at Rebellion 3rd August...

Ah, I missed that (and probably more), thanks, just saw they were apparently going back to the states again soon.

Seeing them at Rebellion would be cool. 

Dead Boys a few days ago.

Having seen videos of shows at the start of their tour my expectations were quite low, but being on tour for some time has done them a world of good - I thought they were excellent.

A few new songs that were fillers/time to buy another beer/chat with people I hadn't seen for a long time.

Loved hearing the best songs from Young, Loud and Snotty live. Never thought I'd get the opportunity.

One of the best nights out for years for me.

Looks like their last gig is in Leeds in a couple of days. If you're thinking of maybe going, I'd recommend you go. 

NT. please ignore. 

Just now, Grooverjr said:

Haha! So it does! Honestly looking at it straight, even with my glasses on, it looked for all the world like a P but now you say that and I look at the photo it is an F! Just looked it up online and it is Fujigen 1995 but no other information. And then I looked at the stamp and it still looks like a P 🙈

I had to magnify it thrice to be able to see clearly so you're not alone👀 

It seems you may have got the answer from @2pods

The serial number appears to start with an F, not a P. I'm pretty sure F means Fujigen factory in Japan. 

I'm sure you'll get detailed info on the bass from more knowledgeable folks. It's a nice looking bass!

And thanks for your effort to make sense of my previous post @Grooverjr ! 

Edit: Having a closer but still quick look it seems like https://ibanez.fandom.com/ may only contains info on guitars(?). I didn't look too hard but took it for granted it would have info on basses too. Not sure they don't though. Sorry for the confusion caused. Insomnia makes the world go huh?

---So this may only be relevant for guitars, I don't know, sorry:

I'm not knowledgable on this but https://ibanez.fandom.com/wiki/Ibanez_serial_numbers was a good place to start when I searched for serial numbers to make sure of what I was buying. 

Scrolling down it appears that: "P = manufactured by Peerless Korea Co., Ltd. (owned by Iida Gakki of Japan) in Pusan (1987–1991?)".

Found it under "1987–1995; 7 characters".

It may well mean something else as well but I thought it made sense to mention it in the off chance it led your search somewhere.

I held on to my first bass for years thinking I couldn't just throw it away. 

There was nothing to like about it, no parts to salvage to give away that would be usable for the task they were supposed to do. But there really was a lot to hate about it so it went in a skip after I took an axe to it to make sure no-one else suffered what it offered.

I'd have preferred to ritually burn it but as it was lacquered it was not an option so even that was a disappointment. 

Hello Shiggs.

I've never tried a short scale so I can't give any advice on that, so, this may be a bit on the side but I thought body posture and how relaxed one is bodily (strange choice of word maybe) was worth a mention. My experience is it can make a big difference no matter what scale is being played. I don't know how experienced you are so I hope you are not offended by this in any way, I would have liked someone to point this out to me when I was starting.

When I took up playing bass/guitar I struggled a bit unnecessarily because I wasn't aware of the fact my shoulder crept up, my back bowed sideways and my whole left arm was too tense. (As was the rest of me and I'm pretty sure I was holding my breath). 

I was only focusing on "pressing" down in the right place and found the fretting hand position very strange (I still don't think I do anything else in life where my left hand is in a "fretting position" (rubs chin). I think I'd have done that on a short scale too that's why I mention it. 

Being as relaxed as you can does help. I also find it easier to fret just behind the fret with is a hopeless sentence and may be a personal preference. (What I'm trying to say is if I play a B on the A string I fret quite close to the C, seems to take less effort). 

If you can, try both the 30" and the 34" and make sure the strap is nice and the basses are well positioned. Good luck and have fun!

There is this little caveat from K&M though:

However with nitro lacquers which are not fully hardened it can happen in some cases that the colors of the guitars “bleed”, that means that the colors blur or fade, and can cause dents.

König & Meyer is not liable for such damages!

I missed that. Still think it's as good as it gets and lacquer from the 70s better be hardened by now. 

Thank you @walshy for sharing. 

It looks like they have several stands and wall mounts that are nitro safe.

I never knew as Thomann don't seem to mention it on a few of the models that I could use. 

Here is a list of the nitro safe stands and hangers:

https://www.k-m.de/brand/en/nitro-lacquer-info-sheet/

Thank you @Jean-Luc Pickguard for making this thread. I'd given up finding something and was never going to get a custom one made.