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  1. KingBollock
    I hope not… My wife has just told me I can have it! Only now, because, as little as it is, it is still a not insignificant amount of money for me, I am nervous because I have never bought anything from BassChat before. I have only bought anything bass related, used online once before, and that was well dodgy and only really seemed to work out by a fluke!
  2. KingBollock
    All this money people are throwing about and I am gassing really badly for a bass for sale on BassChat that’s less than £300. I don’t know if I am hoping he’ll sell it or if he doesn’t sell it and I can talk myself into it in the new year… And I don’t mean it in a bad way, I just find it quite humorous!
  3. KingBollock
    Seconded. I have used these on a couple of instruments.
  4. KingBollock
    I only have one bass that I bought new and it was only £200. My other three basses were £250(x2) and £225. Should I come into some money and saw the right bass, I think I’d pay up to £600.
  5. KingBollock
    Yup, that’s the one that I use. Does the job nicely.
  6. KingBollock
    I’m not so sure there is. Not official, anyway… I found this: https://www.roland.com/us/support/service_repair/service_centers/ The only one I saw was in America. But I’m finding the map a bit fiddly on my tablet.
  7. KingBollock
    I used to work for a Roland service centre and we often repaired Boss pedals (it was a bunch of Boss PS-2s that got me the sack! Actually, that’s not true, it was the boss not liking being proved wrong that got me the sack…). That place is long gone (this was 1991/2), but I know we were one of five in the UK. There must be some still knocking about.
  8. KingBollock
    Definitely this! Whenever I have taught people, the most difficult thing has always been to get them into a proper position. I think it’s just something that people don’t know to think about when they start playing. I’ve been teaching my mate and it was a joy to see his face light up when I finally got through to him that he needed to be in a more ergonomic position, and he was finally able to get his fingers where he wanted them to go.
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    I stopped listening to anything that man says after seeing his interview with Alex Jones. I don’t normally bother myself with what musicians think/believe/say, but sometimes you can’t avoid it, and he is particularly loathesome. I swore to never buy anything Megadeth after that. The only other musician I have sworn to boycott is Blackie Lawless. There are plenty of tossers about, and no doubt I listen to stuff by some of them, but there’s a mark that is a step too far.
  10. KingBollock
    Really? Oh… I don’t know anymore! I really like those two albums. I used to keep all my metal albums sorted by genre, but now I just keep it all under “Metal”. No more “Is that symphonic, blackened death metal, or is it blackened, melodic death metal?”. If it gets too soft it goes into “Rock”.
  11. KingBollock
    I was surprised to see Megadeth mentioned there. The only time they really softened was Risk, and that was only in an attempt to make a record that would make Metallica money. That was a genuine attempt at selling out (though I still bought and liked it), after that they seemed to go back to being Megadeth. Mustaine might be rich, but he’s still ticked off that he isn’t in Metallica, or, at least, as rich as them!
  12. KingBollock
    No, you didn’t. I was following on my train of thought from arguments that I have been reading for decades, arguments that I have avoided because they’re futile. I like what I like and I don’t care what other people think of that or what they think it should be labelled. Why would I? To be honest, the christmas thread has rather skewed my mood. That and the fact that my wife plied me with too many painkillers, just so I can go and get the christmas decorations down from the attic. Double-bummer.
  13. KingBollock
    I shall give that a listen tomorrow, I’m having an 80’s Iron Maiden afternoon.
  14. KingBollock
    I wonder what the first two Metallica albums would have sounded like, production wise, if they had the money they had by the time they did the black album? I’m a bit of a black metal fan and, while I like early stuff, I actually much prefer later, better produced stuff, by the same bands. I actually like hearing the music. I hate the gatekeeping reverse snobbery about it. Better production doesn’t mean selling out. And selling well isn’t selling out, either.
  15. KingBollock
    That’s a ridiculous thing to say. It might not be a thrash album, but there are plenty of heavy songs on it that are definitely metal.
  16. KingBollock
    I sometimes wish that Master Of Puppets had the quality of production that The Black album or the Loaded albums had. I often used to think that it would be the perfect album, one of the best metal albums ever if it did. But then, I have to wonder if it would ruin it somehow. I love Master Of Puppets, and really like The Black album and Reload. But, when it comes to what I choose to listen to, I most often pick Megadeth over Metallica. They’ve just done more consistently good stuff. Though, to be honest, I don’t often listen to either anymore.
  17. KingBollock
    I recently found a pick that I had forgotten I had. It’s a 1mm Pickboy. It’s, apparently, made with a mix of plastic and ceramic. The raised pattern on it makes it feel a lot thicker than it is, and also makes it very grippy.
  18. KingBollock
    One of these was my first bass. I really, really regret selling it (financial difficulties, that weren’t caused by me, forced me to sell it) I would kill to get my hands in another.
  19. KingBollock
    The first song I ever covered was Motörhead, which was originally a Hawkwind song. But the version I had was the Motörhead version. Though, to be honest, with me on vocals (I was only 12…) it sounded more like the Lawnmower Deth version.
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    Lemmy.
  21. KingBollock
    This was the original version I came up with, but it was a while ago now and I have plans to further modify the pedal before finishing it. If I remember correctly, the photo I took was at the same beach where Dobby (the House Elf) was buried.
  22. KingBollock
    I know what you mean (and I am a massive Motörhead fan) but the vocal does get better as the song progresses. I actually believe that Motörhead’s cover of Enter Sandman is worse.
  23. KingBollock
    I have no specific sci-if pedal projects, but I do plan on building a pedalboard that I want to look like a section of floor grating from the Nostromo, in which I will find a place for a Wayland-Yutani logo. I do have some pedals that I have made myself that are so far unpainted. They tend to have pretentious names, such as: “The Scent Of Red Ruin Borne Upon A Mourning Breeze” (a Body Rot II. Mostly) and “Dank And Fetid Earth Beneath A Doom Coloured Sun” (this has two Big Muffs in it, a Musket and a ‘73 Ram’s Head. Both modified). The latter of which I intend to use a photo on that I took looking out to sea from a Welsh beach. I have inverted the colours and it really does look like an alien landscape. I think some of the other pedals have potential for a splash of sci-if influence. If I do go down that route, they’d almost definitely be Xenomorph based, with maybe a smattering of Predator.
  24. KingBollock
    When I was a kid and started using a pick (I had taken up electronics, too, and my fingers always seemed to be covered in plasters (I am very clumsy and shouldn’t really be allowed near hot or sharp things…), making playing with fingers difficult), the local guitar shop didn’t sell picks thicker than 1mm. I had some rubber feet that I had taken from the bottom of a TV that was being thrown out. They were a couple of mm thick and fitted perfectly on a pick. So I basically had a pick that played and sounded like a 1mm pick, but was 3mm thick, so nicer to hold, and being rubber made them nice and grippy. I got a job in that guitar shop and they all laughed until they had a go for themselves. Then the shop started stocking 3mm Big Stubbys, which I then used for the next 25 years, until I discovered the Primetones. I don’t do this any more, as I say, I use the Dunlop Primetones, but I thought I would mention it just in case it might help someone else.
  25. KingBollock
    I love Elixirs on my basses, but they don’t do 40 - 100, which is all my Warlock gets along with. I love the D’Addario NYXLs on my skinny stringers (really dislike Elixirs on them) and was thinking of trying the D’Addario coated on the Warlock but, again, I couldn’t find the gauge I was after. So I thought about trying them on the basses that usually get Elixirs, but after seeing this thread I don’t think I’ll bother.
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