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I used to earn my living fitting out show homes on new estates. I would have killed for a box of these.

Can't recall who recommended it, but this just arrived

Drummer is amazing!

Thank you, I will sample some of his work.

I know none of the history here. But I didn't think the chap in the video was ranting.

Thanks for sharing this. What a nice guy, and what a great player too. I feel a bit out of the loop not knowing who Steve Wilson is.

Anyway, I'd say Wake Me Up Before You Go Go is a prime example.

I tried to start a thread like this once but just got burned by other people explaining to me that the examples I gave weren't cr*p. Oh and helping me to understand the function of subjectivity and its application in popular music. For which lessons I am eternally grateful.

My regular Harley Benton bass orders have been arriving in reasonable time. Having said that time is a very elastic concept at the moment. I'm totally relaxed about when stuff arrives. After all I won't be gigging with any of it any time soon.

It's all shut away for the night. I'll measure up tomorrow. I just went to the recommended site and chose the shortest of the two.

If you look at the long picture the rod ends exactly where the neck joins the body and the other end just about fills the allen key slot.

Don't think it interfered with the pup at all.

That was the short one

Just watched a youtube video on operating the Behringer. It acrtually made sense to me (in a way) but I got a headache as it became increasingly complex so I'll save the second part until later. Considering I didn't know what a midi cable was a couple of weeks ago, I'm quite enjoying the learning curve

Well, no not really. I don't mean that a goos multi fx cant do amazing things but the FI is different in every way. You create the noises/effects from scratch yourself and the available synth sounds are extraordinary. With something like the Behringer total cost would be in the region of 300. Obviously not saying you can't buy a great multi fx for that, but I bought the FI as a standalone synth, I was surprised to find myself selling of a ton of pedals now made obsolete by it. Another 100 quid to make it fully stage worthy doesn't sound that much considering the pedal sales mor ethan cover that.

Update time. Trussrod arrived, wasn't any good for ice cream so I took it to the shed Softer and much fatter than I expected, no way that lot would fit so I took off the outer layers Ah, that's more like it. As suggested I ran a thin line of superglue along my crack. And actually managed to put the bottle down again. Result. However , Houston, we may have a problem. The rod is too long. I don't mean it sticks out either end of the bass just it sails past where the previos one ends. My guess is I'll be extending my groove, um, man. Intuition suggests I take out the wood from the body not the headstock but hey - what do I know? Maybe I nibble a bit of both. Close up? OK If the rod ends here Then the other end is here

That does look great, however it is very expensive

Yep I've used them before, good solid fixture. Cheap and no moving parts

I only own one Hercules product (because I'm notoriously tight with money) it's a multi instrument stand, sits at the end of my bed with 9 basses in it. Well made and I'm happy with it. When I played a T Bird I very nearly bought the one they make from which the bass hangs. However Thomann produced a near identical one at a favourable price point. It has never let me down. I wouldn't hesitate to hang a bass from the wall, but I don't own the room in which I live. However if I did I'd use a heavy screw in U hook from my local hardware shop.

I agree with you Paul. The first Sabbath album is as batsh*t crazy as it ever was, Purple sounds musical and interesting but Zeppelin (apart from the sublime bass playing) holds my interest less.

sooo close

I did it for a year assuming it would thereafter be a lot cheaper but it was still very expensive. I liked the lessons but got way more from face to face with a tutor. That is nothing whatever to do with SBL and everything to do with the way I prefer to learn. Or as Ped would say, you can't not agree to disagree that it isn't not a good way not to learn to not learn.

While I agree those three were massive, Zep was always seen as not really a heavy metal band, Sabbath's legend was kept alive partly by Ozzie's continued fame. I wonder how much Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow and Whitesnake helped to bury Deep Purple? And then before you knew it metal was redefined and they were just another bunch of old guys past their sell by. Odd how it can happen. They sound more prog than metal to me now.