KingBollock

8/10 I got #2 and #7 wrong. I knew #7 but suddenly doubted myself and buggered up.

There's Sabaton's Carolux Rex. Sabaton are pretty much a concept band, based on war, but Carolus Rex is based specifically on 100 years of Swedish war. And they recorded it in both English and Swedish.

[quote name='rmorris' timestamp='1455037373' post='2975291'] Those type of cable tie bases are good but there's still the issue of the adhesion not always being strong enough. Depends on the surface you're sticking it to but I've experienced them failing over time/temperature on steel and aluminium (vertically mounted so dropping off). But with silicon sealant applied round the edge as adhesive they have performed well. [/quote] I've had the exact opposite problem with them, I keep putting them in the wrong place and they're a right pain to get off again! And then I have to use new sticky pads to put them back on.

W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol.

If I don't want to drill an anchor point, I like these: [Img]http://images2.cableorganizer.com/adhesive-clips-bases/images/01-adhesive-base_red-cable-tie.jpg" class="ipsImage" /> However, I don't know if you can get them with a big enough slot for Velcro. Edit: You can get them large enough to take a variety of Velcro widths. The generic term for them seems to be Grip Tie Mounts. I could do with some myself.

Digitech Bass Driver. They're not expensive and they're really versatile. I love mine.

You can get cordless screwdrivers for free with cordless drill drivers. If you already have one you could get a Planet Waves bit to fit it: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Planet-Waves-Drill-Bit-Winder/dp/B008BPI2OW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1454157443&sr=8-1&keywords=Cordless+string+winder Or, if you don't already have one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/SPARES2GO-Cordless-Rechargeable-Electric-Screwdriver/dp/B01AAMRJVU/ref=sr_1_2?s=diy&ie=UTF8&qid=1454158263&sr=1-2&keywords=Cordless+drill+driver Or: http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/7114683.htm Together that comes to £14.95, so you're not saving much, but you do get the driver bits, too. And if you keep your eyes out, you can find the screwdriver even cheaper, I have seen them for as little as £3. There is the option to go for a drill-driver, but they're larger and more powerful, so you'd need to get one that you can set the torque on. One of my drill-drivers cost me £7.50, but I can't remember where from.

Sort of reminds me of this one: http://www.pouringrain.co.nz/music_2string.htm

My main four string is tuned to C standard. I put the bottom four strings from a five string set on it and tune it up. I worried about damaging something when I first did it, but it hasn't been a problem, and for some stuff I even tune it up to C# standard. I have read that the ideal bottom string for this is .118 but I am using a .130 and it works great. It is nice that the layout is kept the same, as opposed to drop tuning.

People should feel free to do whatever pleases them with their instruments. If you have a bass worth £300 or £3000, whether you choose to smash it to kindling or mount it on a wall behind bulletproof glass, is totally up to you. As I said earlier, people spend a lot more on purely ornamental stuff all the time (and if you think they don't, have a look at some of your neighbours gardens). It's about what you [i]want[/i] to do with it. If you want to play it but end up locking it up in a bank vault, that's a real shame. If you bought it to play it, then play it! Otherwise, in a couple of years, there'll be an ad in the BassChat marketplace with your name at the top. for a beautiful bass being sold because it just isn't being played, and that's a shame because it should be played and you feel guilty for not doing so and it is now time to pass it on to someone who will... Really, how often do you see those ads? Do you [i]own[/i] the bass for playing, or are you just looking after it for someone else? [And isn't it typical? I finally post something that people like enough to quote positively and there's a damned typo in it!]

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1453130255' post='2956636'] Sorry but I'm absolutely anal about trying to preserve my gear and want it all to be as mint as possible. I appreciate that they are for playing which is why I have more than one - this means that most are stored safely leaving only a couple out and at risk. [/quote] There's nothing wrong with doing your absolute best to look after your gear. In fact I would encourage it, it's a great idea. Just so long as you play it. Mind you, even then, lots of people spend an awful lot of money on things just because they look nice, that have no practical purpose, it is entirely up to the owner whether they want to hang a bass up on a wall and never play it, or whatever. But it is a shame to do that if what you really want to do is play it, to restrict one's self through fear that may well be unfounded if you look after it properly.

If you scratch a bass it remains a musical instrument. If you refuse to play it, it becomes an expensive ornament.

[quote name='rmorris' timestamp='1453109606' post='2956321'] I use it at work for overall shielding of cable assemblies. But for your use would it be easier to use flat braid ? [/quote] Why would it be easier? Do you mean to wrap the flat braid around the wire, or just use it to link the cavities? I could just run a wire for linking if that was all I wanted to do. I know shielding the hole probably makes absolutely no difference, but I like the completeness of it. I feed the wire through the braid, then feed that through the hole. Splay the ends of the braid and tape them down (I use aluminium tape for shielding cavities). I only really started using it for that because I had it knocking around. I bought it with wire in it labelled as "Gibson" style wire, when I was rewiring a Les Paul style guitar that has chrome hardware, so it all matches...

I don't often listen to whole albums, I tend to make up playlists that I set to shuffle randomly. For instance. I have quite a few Grateful Dead songs but no albums. Their stuff lives in my Hippy playlist, along with Jefferson Airplane, Sweetwater, Bob Dylan, Canned Heat and a shed load of other stuff from the 60s and 70s. There are between 300 and 400 songs in that playlist. There might only be a handful of songs by a band in the playlist, or there might be a couple of dozen. I have a slightly smaller playlist that covers the same time period, but is made up of pop songs, labelled Oldies. And another one that is bigger than the Hippy one, for Country music, that goes from the 50s up to now. By far my biggest playlist is for rock and metal, which starts in the early 70s. I also have playlists for Folk (mostly Irish, though), Punk, Goth, Hip Hop/Rap, Classical, modern Pop and others. I just play whatever I am in the mood for. I do own several hundred albums, and I do still listen to them. The problem is that I am very indecisive and often struggle to make up my mind which album I want to listen to. So even if I decide I want to listen to one particular band, I will usually end up putting all their albums on shuffle. I was born in 1975 and I listen to lots of stuff from before I was born. Being told what I can and can't like is bullshit and I find it incredibly offensive. I live a very isolated life, so I am genuinely pretty much untouched by fashion, especially in music. I also have real problems remembering names, whether it be people or things. So knowing all the details about the music I listen to is difficult, half the time I can't even remember what songs are on what albums of my very favourite bands, so all I have to go on is what I am listening to, so it is, for me, by default, [i]all[/i] about the music.

I mostly use it for lining the hole between and linking shielded pick-up and control cavities (my basses and guitars don't have scratchplates).

You could always use the four core and solder two of the wires together, so it's not totally wasted? Can't say as I see why it would really be a problem to just cut it off, though. If you wanted to make up your own cable, you could feed it through some braided shielding. Like this stuff: http://www.bitsbox.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=200_207 I have done exactly that with that stuff in guitars myself.

Would this be any good? http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/audiovisual-single-individually-screened-four-core-grey-priced-per-metre-xr23a Or this: http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/audiovisual-single-sheathed-four-core-grey-priced-per-metre-xr92a

I used to volunteer at a band venue that didn't serve alcohol, and many of the bands that played there would tell us how it was their favourite place to play. There was never any trouble or drama. Just lots of fun and lots of enthusiasm for the bands playing.

This wasn't a band gig, it was a New Year's Eve disco. Bill, the owner, had set the pyros up. Three of them across the front of the stage (two streamers and a flash-bang), which was a bloody stupid idea. He also set the switch up under a table at the back of the stage behind all the gear, because he was an idiot and a dick. Guess where I was when midnight hit... Anyway, before I crawled off under the table to celebrate the coming of the new year, I was keeping an eye on people getting too close to the pyros. And there was one bloke desperately try to impress a woman by dancing right in front of the disco with the lights (and the pyro) behind him. I kept asking him to move and explaining why he shouldn't stand there, to start with he would move but come straight back, but then he just started ignoring me. So, the countdown begins and I scuttle off. I can't see anything, but midnight comes and I press the button. Que ohhhs and ahhhs and then the screaming... I had set fire to the arsehole's jumper! Oh how I laughed!

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1452889006' post='2954559'] BTW, me, I quite like not being called uninformed or ignorant just because I don't know some three chord wonder. [/grumpy] [/quote] Bloody heretic!

I found a video of them on YouTube and I really like what they play. If they were in Carmarthen or even Swansea I'd bloomin' give it a go, as unsuitable as I believe they'd find me...

[quote name='interpol52' timestamp='1452786382' post='2953513'] I was born in 1975. I know exactly who David Bowie was (is? I don't know which to say and be respectful) and I know some of his songs. I meant that the majority of his music I don't know, like album tracks and those songs or performances that mean you feel you really know an artist. I haven't avoided his music, I don't dislike what I know of his songs. It's just that I have never dug deeper into his musical output for whatever reason. [/quote] Exactly the same here. Even down to being born in 1975. I am always finding new music that I enjoy, whether it's new-new or new-old. Perhaps this has made me lazy but I just don't feel the need to work hard at listening to music just because other people say it is/was important. Maybe I end up missing out on stuff? But so what? Does is really matter as long as I am enjoying what I do listen to? Isn't that the point of music? If no new music was made from this day onward, there would still be far more music in the world than any one person could ever listen to, even if each person was to discover ten new bands, that they hadn't heard of, every day. And how much could one really take in if you're just trying to listen to as much as you can? How can someone really absorb it that way? The sosososososo guy I mentioned earlier (whose name I can't remember. I could have a guess but I'd be very embarrassed if I got it wrong) insisted that music wasn't entertainment and that if you enjoy it you're doing it wrong. He was very quickly told just how far up his arse his head was...

We just need the sosososososo guy to turn up...

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1452741640' post='2953076'] I know nothing about those bands, so I can't intelligently say if I like them or not. Key phrase, " I know nothing about them" Blue [/quote] I'm not sure what you mean by that. Would you say you liked a band purely on their influence on music, the impact they have had, even if you didn't enjoy their music? To you, is enjoying a band's music not enough for you to like them? Do you have to know more about them? Obviously enjoying a band's music would probably lead to deeper investigation of their history, but can you like them before that? These questions are meant to help me clear things up about your view on the subject, as I am curious. They are not meant to pick at you or cause offence, if they have then I have presented them poorly and I apologise, it is not my intent. I can like a band's music and listen to them all day long, without knowing anything about them, or knowing about them and not liking them otherwise. Coincidentally, one of those bands is Megadeth (I have talked about this and used the same band as a reference on BassChat before) and another is W.A.S.P. I adore the music of both, but despise the heads of both (Dave Mustaine and Blackie Lawless, respectively). They both come across as bigoted and vile, but they have made some incredible music. To me, enjoying the music is the most important thing. As a concession, I shan't be going to see them live again (actually I haven't seen Megadeth live, and W.A.S.P. only four times). I listen to bands that I don't even know the names of the members of (this is actually more of a neurological thing for me, I have great difficulty remembering names. This can be rather frustrating) and it doesn't stop me from enjoying them one tiny bit.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1452687764' post='2952382'] I don't know everyone's age. Even 50 is too young to understand the 60s and the greats from that era. I'm sure there's still great material being written today. But IMO not as great as The 60s and 70s. Blue [/quote] So you're demanding that everyone should know about bands from the sixties, but also claim that unless you're old enough to have been there then it's not possible? You basically want to be considered superior because of your age. You also show a huge, gaping ignorance of modern music. But that's ok, we can't expect you to know everything about modern music, especially at your age. It's perfectly OK for you to have a favourite musical era, and play music from whenever you like. But if everyone was how you seem to expect them to be, music would never evolve. If you say that we wouldn't have modern music without such and such a band, but then claim that modern music isn't nearly as good, what does that really say about that band's influence? No one here knocks you for what you like and play. Please do us the same courtesy.