amnesia

Guns 'n Roses 2006 aka Axl and friends. Two hours late on stage, acted like a proper primadonna, and who is interested in solos by session musos nobody in the venue had heard of? Left well before the end. Marylin Manson...maybe 7 or 8 years ago? Pretending to cut himself with 'glass' bottles. Terrible. Apparently he's in a much better place now so its a shame we missed out on tickets for this tour.

Always take mine off unless I'm just noodling about at home because it clatters up the G-string. I'm not even going to apologise for saying that. It sits with my car keys at rehearsal, and either with my wife or in my ear plug case which lives in a gig bag pocket at shows.

Indeed. Its a skill unto itself. Slight derail.... I only recently discovered that the electronic "beep beep boop beep" type click is trumped by a real marmite tone...cowbell! It works for me better than an electronic beep because its more percussive. Since to me it doesn't fit, it stands out more. I've also used a mix of click, drums and in one case I needed the vocal too for some odd reason...

I probably know some of the bands you are talking about, but I wouldn't even try to guess from your posts...

Do you have your ridiculously tall flag? If not...are you even doing it right?

Found him! Derek Boyer from Suffocation. Bass is like a stretched Warlock body, five string headless multiscale...

That's the guy! Just got to find his name now...

Nope that's not the guy. The bloke I am looking for has long hair, and the band is heavier than overkill.

Scrolling through the multitude of mind-numbingly pointless videos on Instrgram a while ago I saw a video of a bass player in a pretty heavy metal / thrash band playing something like a stretched Warlock shape bass, with one of the spikey-horn-bits resting on the floor. Can't remember the name of the band or the player. I have 'Decapitated' in my head (see what I did there?) but its not them...and the name 'Derek' for some reason. Anyone know who this is? Fairly sure I didn't dream it...

How do, I am hoping that someone on here currently owns a Sandberg Cali VM5. I need a couple of measurements, if you would be so kind: Distance from 12th fret to centre line of P pickup Distance from 12th fret to centre line of MM pickup. The background - I am in the build queue for a custom-build (not Sandberg) using a 35" scale, with the MM / P pickup arrangement and need some dimensions for pickup placement. Ta kids!

I've recently used these folk a couple of times too. No problems at all

I'm lucky enough to own some really nice basses...so in April I joined the 15+ month long build queue of a one-man-luthier in Finland...because one more can't hurt. Right? RIGHT?!??

Hideous design...but what would I know? Most of my basses don't even have parallel frets...

[cough] Dingwall NG series [cough] All the drop-tune-cool-kids use 'em now

You can argue whether this counts as 'singing' or not...but...Tom Araya from Slayer. Dug P from King's X perhaps?