Chris2112

Best: Seeing Steve Vai live with Billy Sheehan and Tony MacAlpine must surely top it. Steve Vai again on the Passion and Warfare 25th Anniversary tour was also amazing. Notable mentions also go to Rush on the Snakes and Arrows tour and Rammstein on the Reise Reise tour. Worst by a long shot was Big Country at the O2 Academy in Newcastle with Mike Peters of The Alarm on vocals. The main issue was the sound, it was just an utter mess of mud and uncontrolled bass frequencies. Mike Peters was never a great vocalist anyway but he really struggled in this setting, it was obvious he was struggling to find the notes as he was constantly coming in high or low and then having to adjust to pitch mid-lyric. When he tried to add a bit more power or passion to his vocals he just ended up blaring out something out of tune. It wouldn't have been so bad if the rest of the band had been better. Mark Brzezicki was on fire on the kit and played well but Tony Butler looked utterly bored and seemed like he couldn't wait to get out of there. As it happened, he packed in soon afterwards. My wife had got us tickets as she knew I loved the band so I felt worse for her having to stand through that shite.

Jesus wept, what a botch job. That bridge looks ridiculous. Glad you were able to get some sort of result in the end.

@mastodon2 is still a Spector owner, he now has a Euro 4. I know this because I have it on loan for a week and it's sat in my front room.

I thought he had only just got that one with the Sims pickups?

Probably more due to lack of choice than anything. It's not like there were loads of top name rock and metal bands available in the UK to choose from.

Quite disappointing to read this. Whilst everyone can dream beyond their wildest imagination, one does well to remember that not everyone is minted and for some, an Ibanez is a very nice prospect. When you get your head out of the bass world, you realise that we do pay a lot of cash for blocks of wood with some wires strung about them. For a lot of players, an Ibanez is a realistic and attainable dream. For some players, it's even further away. FWIW, my first proper bass was an Ibanez BTB405QM that I bought when I was 14 with a little help from some savings and family giving me an early birthday present. It was a massive step up from the starter bass I had; it was an entirely usable instrument that would have been suited to any setting. It was £400-odd quid even back then, not exactly highly priced but not cheap.

Useless trivia, but the woman from Prefab Sprout lived on my in-laws street for years. I still often see her son around the village.

An interesting analysis! Thanks for sharing.

Back when I started reading about bass guitars on the internet, Nu Metal was just about to start winding down, Warwick had enjoyed a big success off the back of being seen as the aspirational bass of that genre and had expanded their operations in the US through Dana B. Goods. They were still without a proper UK distributor at the time though some Sound Control stores carried them. It seemed like the entire internet was going wild for them and they were definitely the bass to have.

I believe it would be a Chieftain model though I'm not certain. There are other Chieftain models with that same body shape albeit different pickup placements.

I was going to say use it as a door stop but you've covered it. It would make for a novel paperweight.

It's an absolute load of crap that should be left in the dustbin of history and that's about it.

Yes, Shawn Lane is my favourite.

I hope they're going to give Steve a lesson on intonation 😂

I thought the Zombie-Simpsons could do nothing right. It has been dreadfully unfunny, naff woke-preaching nonsense for a long time. Morrissey, however, is a nasty and talentless buffoon who needs to be sent up whenever the opportunity presents, so hats off to them getting something right. What really surprises me is that these days, The Simpsons seems to deify people like Morrissey rather than lampoon them, so I'm surprised they went for this angle.

Yes, it is absolutely dreadful and genuine too. You can see the bongo player and the bassist looking at each other in the first minute with the bassist apparently about to break out laughing. I guess it goes to show that not everyone who takes part in these dreadful performances earnestly believes in them.

Bartolini and Warwick is always a match made in heaven to my ears.

PJ Rubal was told about this before he left (he has left, hasn't he?). There were comments made to the effect that the Spector material would be edited but it looks like that fell by the wayside.

Always loved that shape. If they had swapped the pickup and the inlay around to bring the pickup closer to the bridge I'd want one myself.

😂 So, has anyone come forward to confirm that the government were to blame for this or are the papers still relying on the ever-convenient 'unnamed source close to the negotiations' to push their agenda. So far as I can see, Lord True is the only person on record to make a definitive statement about this issue and he confirms that the EU refused the terms put forward by the UK government. Of course, that has been largely skimmed over by the press who intent on bashing the government without a fair presentation of the facts.

The fretted/fretless hybrid doesn't surprise me too much. I have never seen one of those instruments in person, but they used to be shown on ye olde internet as curiosities. The actual bass in the first post though, good grief, it is vile. Looks like it's had a dip in a bathtub full of faeces.