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Just received a shiny Badass II bridge from Mike. great to deal with, highly recommended!!! Thanks! \m/

I also swapped the valves and bought a 5 quid attenuator. no more soundman complaints

i played a gig with my 2nd band (which I've now left) and broke a string during the early part of the tune. Whipped out the dead string, jumped off stage like a trooper, restrung it on the fly, tuned up and came back in for the last 1/4... something wasn't right though and I was getting stern looks from the band... I couldn't tell (I'm a bit thick when it comes to fine tuning with everyone playing) after nearly a minute I realised I'd tuned it to a drop tuning which I use in my other band, but this one is standard . got it back in for about 1 minute of tune. I nearly sacked myself!

I today received a Geddy Lee Fender Jazz from George which was well packed and got to me in less than 2 days after agreeing a sale. Surely a record?! Excellent communication and dealt with my inexperience with gentlemanly patience! Thanks George!

who do I give my address to?

sounds like a Stevie Wonder covers band dropped through a lounge bland filter. like a lotta widdle-widdle bassists, very clever but boring to listen to. but then I do listen exclusively to AC/DC's Back In Black

This must have been tackled before but I cant find anything... just wondered if anyone does lo-fi band recordings and how? Back in the day it was just a tape recorder, a few years ago I used to use a sony ericsson c905 phone and that was good... but my last HTC was rubbish so I gave up. Now have a galaxy S5 and I'm thinking of buying a microphone to plug into it to pick up the blasting noise and reduce it so that I can get a listenable recording. Any thoughts/ideas? I'm really not looking to buy mixing desks or get complicated, I dont need perfect recordings, just a balance of live drums, bass and two guitars, so that it's listenable and mp3's can be sent to the band members. cheers!!

when I saw 'angry dog' vocals I thought it was more about the last ten years of these caustic metal-core singers. The guy from Converge is possibly the first most OTT singer I'd heard. Awesome as they are live (and their You Fail Me album is great for calming down to!) I cannot stand that vocal style. Luckily that kinda 'Metal' is more about fashion and posturing than music, and so it will end, cyclically. If you're talking about Death Metal vocals I guess the band Death and Venom were the originators. UKHC/Punk took punk to the next level. Everything is influenced by what went before. For me it would help to clarify what 'barking dog' vocals are? Thrash bands were rarely vocally aggressive in a growly fashion, it was Death Metal that was more growly. and I'd agree with Phil/Pantera bringing the 'aggro' but that was also more image and posture as well as vocal style. Sadly that macho BS is still hanging around.

Hey all, For the Metallers and those who like stoner/doom/sludgey type instrumental music... [quote] After 3 years, Thorun finally sets free its third album, Festival at Fires Peak. Clocking in at a palatable 37 minutes it features 5 full tracks and one of our trademark ambient tunes to break it up. Once again the mighty Luke Oram has allowed us to use one of his great pieces for the artwork. The music is available for download from bandcamp for the princely sum of £5 (UK) , we’ve also thrown in the artwork, some pictures and a bio. We’ve put two tracks up for your listening pleasure… [url="http://thorun.bandcamp.com/album/2014-festival-at-fires-peak"]http://thorun.bandcamp.com/album/2014-festival-at-fires-peak[/url] We will have CD’s available shortly, also from bandcamp. [/quote] [url="http://www.thorunband.com/"]http://www.thorunband.com/[/url] cheers!!

here's my FB update on the subject... "Jules Holland mildly entertaining; the usual coiffured and fashionable indie rock chumps 'smashing' out tepid, over-emotive dribble, uninventing the MC5 through a U2 filter. Boy George did a cool non-standard pop tune and wiped the floor with em. look boyos, if yer gonna plug your guitars in, play em properly eh?"

[quote name='Dave Vader' timestamp='1380280280' post='2223149'] [url="http://www.amazon.com/Decline-Western-Civilization-II-The-Metal/dp/6302725623"]http://www.amazon.co...l/dp/6302725623[/url] Or buy this, and obviously a VHS player, unless yours hasn't packed up yet. [/quote] I also still have that, AND a VHS player I see that most of you guys are all ex-Glammies, so you'll be unimpressed with my latest ebay purchases... old thrash metal compilations on cassette, plus a bunch of early Whitesnake's and this... [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/161130402498?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/161130402498?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649[/url]

Seeing as I play in a stoner rock (layman's terms : Black Sabbath) band, Im holding out for one day picking up one of those planks that aren't allowed on here. Ebayers have em going for less than a grand, although there's plenty new ones priced higher. the prices there seem to be a lot less and people are prepared to gamble on start prices of £500 or less. Only trouble is I'm technically clueless and couldnt tell a dink in the headstock from a bass put together with pieces from a scrap yard... so I'm loathe to try for the 2nd hands ones that aren't sold as near mint. I did pick up my mint (before i dinged it ) Geddy Jap though for £400 a few years ago, and for my purposes it's still utterly awesome. If I could find one in the same nick and price that's a 'burst, I'd probably buy it too, just to have both! Even though Im only really interested in Jazz's and the other one, prices seem to range a great deal.

[quote name='paul h' timestamp='1380182830' post='2221830'] Nothing wrong with Come out and Play. I had the pop up cover version [/quote] I still have it [quote name='randythoades' timestamp='1380183564' post='2221839'] More candidates for worst heavy metal album: Manowar (Fighting the World), [s]Tankard (The Morning After),[/s] Judas Priest (Ram It Down). All albums which I adored at the time but were pretty terrible when you look back on them! [/quote] and I have those too, all on CD and vinyl! \m/ \m/

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1379966144' post='2218925'] Potentially even more disturbing than Vince Neil and Motley Crue is my vivid and traumatic memory of Biff Byford and Saxon trying to crack the American market in the mid-80's with their own Hair Metal makeover . The image of those Barnsley' boys in skintight spandex with big poofs of tousled bleach blonde hair still gives me chills whenever I think about it . Take a look at the official video for " Ride Like The Wind" by Saxon on You Tube and I promise you , Biff's personal style in it will live with you for a long time to come . [/quote] I spotted a recent Classic Rock (or Metal Hammer) review of a new Saxon album which, seeing as they've been back to doing 'Metal' they last decade or two, complimented them on always sticking to their guns. I was like 'eh? did they f00k!' and began talking to the magazine about that very video! annoys me when journos reinvent history because they either don't know or don't remember. I do respect Saxon n Biff mind, I bought the old classics on vinyl recently and they're still great. They also still know how to rock a show too... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4b91QeXGIA

another vote for SatD! \m/ I'm more of a trad/frash/death/doom/stoner Metallist type, but I've always liked this album, IMHO it's a corker. definitely they're heaviest album. For a bunch of glam rock posers, they knew how to write a good heavy rock tune.

I get the impression that that's what 'bass playing' is all about. kinda why i'm really not too bothered that i'm so utterly unable to do it. I can (or did) however stand in a room with a few rock musicians and create a tune from thin air, then play it live (with mistakes) and get a full room of people banging their heads and cheering at the end. All these whizz-warble bass players all over the web and not a tune between 'em. Sing me a song by a great bassist that didn't have someone else's band name on the cover. Dave Lee Roth can't even sing but those were still Sheehan's best moments. controversial?