darkandrew

I have a couple of Cort made Korean Fenders (a Tele and a Showmaster). The Showmaster is great and easily the equal of some of my other, more expensive and more esteemed guitars, however the Tele is fine but not quite as good - the most noticeable difference is the sharpness of the fret ends, which apparently is quite a common complaint with some Korean Fenders.

But then I suppose there's no guarantee with cash either, unless you check every note.

[quote name='Gamble' timestamp='1460319016' post='3024673'] Just looking for opinions, I'm considering fitting flush mount Dunlop straplocks to my Warwick Corvette $$ (I like them, already got them on 3 of my basses) but not sure if they'd put anyone off if I ever came to sell the bass. Ta! [/quote] Don't Warwicks come with Warwick straplocks? My SS1 has them and although I bought it used I am sure it came fitted with them from new.

Just caught Raleigh Ritchie on Graham Norton (to be honest I'd never heard of him before) and was impressed not only by the performance but also the live sound (especially the drums - very dry but at the same time very "live"), worth watching on iplayer.

[quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1458917352' post='3012112'] Any band with a song called 'Sex dwarf' is dodgy! [/quote] Fair point ...

[quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1458773028' post='3010871'] I'm very much into my old school metal, but 'Soft Cell' did one of the best gigs I've ever been to. [/quote] Are Soft Cell dodgy (This Last Night is one of my all time favourite albums)? Seen them a few times too and always enjoyed them.

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' timestamp='1458764742' post='3010721'] That means you dark Andrew [/quote] Not quite but I did go to a Cliff Richard concert with my Mum in the 1980s - from what I remember, it was rather good actually.

Didn't Steps win the Brit Award for best live act back in the day? I wonder if anybody here is prepared to admit to seeing and liking them?

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1458047134' post='3004162'] Dave Gilmour had a good guy at the Albert Hall last year. Everything was clear as a bell the whole night, so it can be done. [/quote] That'll be Andy Jackson (he also produced Fields of the Nephilim's Elizium album).

[quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1458376977' post='3007011'] Beatles - In My Life. [/quote] Oh yes, I'd forgotten about that one (although I should admit that I actually prefer Rod Stewart's cover of it).

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1458379513' post='3007039'] [i][b]Merry Xmas Everybody[/b][/i] (a completely different title, I'm sure you'll agree) was by Slade and largely written by Jim Lea, the bass player, which is why the bass line is so prominent and such fun to play. [/quote] That'll be the one then. Had to play it for four nights on the trot and, like I said, I actually ended up quite liking it.

The Prodigy's bassist / guitarist Rob Holloway is quite an interesting one. He's popped up all over the place (started with Curve in the 90s and has since played guitar and / or bass with Gary Numan, The Mission, Marilyn Manson, The Prodigy and Emma Hewitt as well as fronted his own band, Sulpher).

If we're doing songs that you hate but have had to play then I'm going to throw in "Perfect" by Fairground Attraction. On the flip side, I also once had to play that Slade Christmas song (Merry Christmas Everyone?) and I thought I was going to hate it but actually quite enjoyed it in the end.

Another one for Johnny Cash's version of Hurt (especially with the music video) plus a new nomination for The Power of Love by Frankie Goes To Hollywood - I think it's Anne Dudley's orchestration as much as anything else.

There's a lot of love here for "13" by Black Sabbath - maybe I should check that one out.

Video killed the radio star by The Buggles. If I remember correctly, they had a singing bass player with rather big glasses (Trevor something, I think) - I wonder what happened to him? 😜

[quote name='Graham' timestamp='1457875183' post='3002536'] The new Faith No More record Sol Invictus is great and their first since getting back together. [/quote] Good call, I'd forgotten about that one.

You know how it is - you make a torturous album that turns out to be an amazing masterpiece but the self destructive process of creating it inevitably leads to the band breaking up soon after its release. A decade or so later the band decide they have unfinished business, get back together and release the best album of their career (or not). You see, I've been trying to think if there are any comeback albums by reformed bands that rival their back catalogue but I just can't think of any. Can you?

I used to have one of these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/gds/Yamaha-DX-100-/10000000001861750/g.html

Fender cloverleaf flat paddle tuners - they are just too big and ugly!

Just been listening to Soft Cell's "This last night in Sodom" in my car on the way home from work and was reminded just what an amazing album it is - it's basically the sound of Marc Almond and Dave Ball sticking two fingers up at their record company and making the album that they wanted to make, right down to mixing it in mono, and I wondered whether there are any other modern (ie 80s and onwards) albums that are deliberately mixed in mono.

The 12" mix of Duran Duran's My Own Way features the line "us boys are going to Rio" (or something like that) which was the title of the Album that followed the single.

Derek Forbes' Vigier 5 string. Saw it on eBay a few days before I was due to go on holiday, put in a bid before I went away and was out-bid by a fellow Basschatter while I was sunning myself in Majorca.

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1456607695' post='2990791'] Ashford Middlesex. Supposedly Surrey now, but it will always be Middlesex to me. I went to school there. :-) [/quote] Well I'm certainly not going there every week for a rehearsal - even if I could sing.