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The full length version, presumably? Much as I love it in its many incarnations, I have to say that "Freebird" is another one in this category. Quite a few songs by Green Day have an outro that doesn't really follow on from the rest of the song (eg. Boulevard of Broken Dreams). Maybe it's just to make it more difficult for cover bands to learn.

Flanders and Swann (already mentioned above). Fascinating Aida. Doc Cox, aka Ivor Biggun. All musical comedy rather than comedians doing music, but capable musicians and I happen to find them funny.

He opened the new arts centre at my old school (which also happened to be his old school). Seemed quite a nice chap.

Mine has worked well. I've modified a daisy-chain lead so I can use two or three power outputs to power an HX Stomp, just need to actually try it out. However, you can't get them now. There's a selection of allegedly isolated budget PSUs available with assorted different mixes of power output, mostly taking the form of half a dozen or so low current outputs (100mA or 300mA), one or two high current 9V outputs, a dedicated 12V and a dedicated 18V output.

And veering wildly back on-topic, my approach has always been to find a bass which is comfortable and has a neck that I like, and a decent amount of sustain (doesn't have to be till next week, enough so I won't need more because you can always stop a note but without an Ebow you can't extend it), and any deficiency in the pickups or electronics can be subsequently attended to.

In 25 years of email lists, newsgroups, and web forums, I have come to the conclusion that looking at the subject rarely gives an indication of the contents thereof. The more ambitious posters can manage to go off-topic in the first post, let alone the first reply.

As you say, each to their own. After all, some people even like Prince.

You've obviously never heard me play. You really need another theory. And it is a theory, there' no facts in it at all.

Interesting, my high output twin pickup active boutique basses don't sound like that. Perhaps you've fallen a bit too much in love with your own theory.

Bloody hell, Godwin's Law? Really?

On the original topic, I first found my "the One" when I bought an Antoniotsai 5-string fretted bass. I'd been looking for something as playable as my Warwick JD Thumb but in 5 strings, and that turned out to be it. The electrics were adequate but not the best and I later upgraded them. Later, I discovered Seis.

Was that due to the overall rigidity, though, or the fingerboard material? Just thinking back to when I had a Status, which had a rather clattery neck.

That's going to upset all those people who paid for both pickups on a J bass, to discover that they need only have bought one with a bridge pickup. Just about all my basses are twin pickup, and I never play on just the bridge pickup. And I don't use overdrive or distortion. WTF is a Jaco tone? I'm aware of his existence and that he played a fretless J using the bridge pickup but that seems quite a specialist application to describe as a general tone.

I don't understand the hate for this. It's a brilliant cover, full of passion.

Yebbut that's a pretty low bar.

E string looks rather close to the edge, G string runs parallel to the fretboard edge so perhaps it's a replacement bridge with a wider string spacing not properly centred.

Specifically in terms of Japan, the UK managed to agree a free trade deal sometime in 2020 which is roughly equivalent to the EU-Japan one. Liz Truss did insist on getting some specific stuff in there about cheese, of which we export about £100k-worth per annum to the largely lactose-intolerant Japanese.

I would have said it was the opposite of misogynistic, although perhaps chauvinistic or patriarchal would be a reasonable description.

It's got a pretty reasonable editor IIRC.

I've got one, haven't used it for years. I really should get round to selling it, or check what the Antiques Roadshow say it's worth. The problem with these older generation multifx is that there is one signal routing path, on which you can have one of each effect type, unlike the more flexible later generation ones where you put any effect you like anywhere in the signal path. That's not to say it's not good quality and a perfectly capable multifx.

I want to know the diet that bass went on, it's down to 5kg now (whatever that is in quaint).

Just trying to decide if it's throwing its arms up in alarm or doing dad dancing.

My 1987 JD Thumb is a little bit neck-divey - any strap which isn't slippery stops it though. Top horn extends to the 16th fret, it's not an early short horn one. My 2000 NT with a reprofiled neck is similar.

Isn't it a bit awkward having footswitches on the front? I rather like it. It's certainly distinctive.

It has been a while, hasn't it? I had a Jack 5 then, since then the Jack 5 has gone and I've had a B2V (now gone) and a B2AV (handy backup bass), a Status 2 (now gone), a Sei Original 5 fretless (main gigging bass in the days when there were gigs), and a Sei Flamboyant 5. I do have more headed than headless basses, but I also think that headless basses are lighter, better-balanced, and more convenient than headed basses.