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[quote name='blue' timestamp='1452685995' post='2952348'] I thought he started the band in 1975. I could be wrong and what if I am? I still like him. Blue [/quote] Started what band? The point is that you lambast others for a lack of knowledge about the musicians that you consider important, yet you can't get your facts straight.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1452685676' post='2952340'] What I wad saying in case it was missed. I like Lemmy. Is there something wrong about that? Blue [/quote] So you like and respect one of the greats. Nothing wrong with that. So, out of respect you should know a bit about him, right? So, what band did Lemmy start in the mid 70s?

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1452685459' post='2952335'] No, just a rant. I've been very disappointed in some of the criticisms and narrow mindedness displayed on bass chat recently. Blue [/quote] Insisting that everyone should think the way you do, is [i]not[/i] being broad minded.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1452685017' post='2952322'] My facts can be challenged, However I think you get my point. Blue [/quote] Oh, I know what you're trying to say, I just think that post shows that you fail to live up to what you preach. It's called hypocrisy.

[quote name='Doctor J' timestamp='1452676242' post='2952206'] I don't believe it's possible to be familiar with all the greats, never mind the minnows . For example,I have an extensive physical music collection, I'm always looking for new music and have sone so since I was a kid but even so I only discovered Steely Dan a few years ago, via this form actually, and now I can't imagine how I got so far in life without latching onto them. Aja is one of the greatest things I've ever heard. I'm conscious, though, that every time I listen to them again is time I could use to explore the Doobie Brothers or Bread or Traffic or Chicago, etc etc etc Time is the enemy. There is more music I want to hear than time left to listen to it. There's no point in not absorbing what you listen to for the sake of ticking a box. You've got to find what you like and, most importantly, enjoy it. Really enjoy it, not just have it on as background music Some people explore more than others and those journeys may never take the on paths to the "greats" but to suggest this is a result of ignorance is wildly arrogant. Each to their own, the most imoortant thing is to really appreciate whatever it is gives you enjoyment. [/quote] This, very much this. I don't care what other people like or don't like. If I enjoy something then I will listen to it, and if I don't, I won't, no matter what it is. I'm not going to beat myself up about it either way.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1452653193' post='2952108'] I couldn't name 1 Megadeath song. But I'm different, I'm evolved. While I don't know Megadeath,I know Lemmy started the band back in the mid 70s. Megadeath didn't mean all that much to me because it didn't matter. The reason it didn't matter was Lemmy had already sold me. The fuss is, Lemmy was the real deal, he wasn't pretentious and had this glorious perspective on rock and roll.He seemed to be a no BS kind of guy. C'Mon guys, get with it. Learn something about and respect history. Blue [/quote] Are you being sarcastic? If you're going to continue with the elitist attitude, you really should get your facts straight. Y'know, out of respect an' all.

[quote name='rockmanrock' timestamp='1452611832' post='2951643'] Looks great, very good job there. I bought a Lidl router to make a scratchplate for a guitar but I've not tried it yet. I was going to get one of those smaller 'trimmer' routers but then I watched this (not for the squeamish!) : [url="https://youtu.be/xseF_8mUIJg?t=262"]https://youtu.be/xseF_8mUIJg?t=262[/url] [/quote] Yup, power tools can be dangerous, and routers are particularly powerful. You can never be too careful. The router I use for free hand stuff has a switch that cannot be locked on, if you let go it cuts the power. The other router doesn't have that, but I have that mounted in a router table. This year, hopefully (I've been meaning to for a while), I will be getting a dead man's footswitch. I can use it for my router, angle grinder, bench grinder and drill press. It's not only safer, but more convenient, not having to let go of what you're doing to turn stuff on and off, which makes it less likely that I will leave something running while I "just do this thing over here real quick...".

That looks ace. Proper job. If it had been me I would have used it as an excuse to buy a router (I have two very cheap routers and both are fine) or a router adapt or for my Dremel. It would have come in a little over the quoted price in total, but then you'd have a router for any future jobs! But it turns out you really didn't need one.

I think the thread has its answer... So is it ok if I kind of hijack it a little bit? I always make my own leads and the ones I have got are perfectly fine, but very boring. What I really want is braided cloth cables. I have seen some lovely tweed ones around but I can't do tweed, it has to be black. The trouble is that my usual places don't sell it. Does anyone know of a uk supplier for it as cut cable? I love how flexible braided cloth cable is, so I am also thinking of replacing my rig's mains leads with it, too, where I can.

You could make a cardboard template of the slider layout. You would cut holes just big enough for the knobs to fit through. Then use the card template to make a plate from Perspex, or 1/4" MDF or something. This plate would then just fit over the top of the knobs, leaving them visible, but unable to move, but is easily reversible. Have I described that properly? I have a feeling I am just picturing it in my head and randomly banging on the keyboard... Edit: Ha! I was too late, AttituteCastle got there just before me. At least I know the idea works! Actually, thinking about his Blu-tac idea, you could use matchsticks. Chop them to size so you'd have two pieces for each slider, wedge them into the grooves, one above and one below each knob.

[quote name='ivansc' timestamp='1452468041' post='2950290'] My first paid gigs were in a Jazz band playing banjo. I borrowed he banjo from the clarinettist. Never have actually owned a banjo, but I am now getting tempted. IF I can find one cheap enough. Depends if I can still play, as I can buy kindling locally quite cheaply and of course I have the obligatory accordion for fanning the flames. [/quote] My Fender five string was only £200 new. I imagine you could get a secondhand one very cheaply.

I have a cheap Fender five string and I love it. I did have one before that, that I sold and regretted selling. That would have been over fifteen years ago. I was/am mostly inspired by Irish stuff, like The Dubliners, The Pogues and stuff like that.

My onyx black BC Rich Warlock is named Ravensfriend (after a sword in one of my very favourite fantasy novels. It's full name is a bit of a mouthful...). My Cort T-35 is named Gloomborn. My PCs have names, too, as do their hard drives. Named after fictional fantasy worlds and places, people and swords (such as Alice in Wonderland or Krynn, the world from the Dragonlance stories, and the Elric books by Michael Moorcroft).

[quote name='ProfFrink' timestamp='1451801297' post='2943486'] The new MXR Iso-Brick is mainly based on the same idea, and I think (but not absolutely sure) that also the GigRig system. [/quote] That's interesting, I could do with having a look at how they have done it. My version has limitations... The main problem is the connecting cable between the two parts. It's quite a thick, 20 core cable. The reason for it is because every pair of outputs is supplied by an isolated half of a transformer, so there are four transformers feeding the board. There is also a blank socket at each end should I ever need to use a wall wart that isn't nine or twelve volts. This cable is rather chunky and was fiddly to make and I have a feeling it is going to be the weak link in the set up. I've been thinking of sleeving it along with the instrument leads to and from my board.

There was an 80s Ibanez pedal, the NB-10, that could pick out and remove specific noise, such as mains hum, and didn't have to kick in and out. Which is what the Decimator does isn't it? I recently got a vero layout for it and the last of the components arrived this morning, so I shall be building it sometime this month. I have built a very, very clean power supply that doesn't require me to have AC anywhere near my pedalboard (the transformers and bridge rectifiers sit in a box at the back of my rack, with the voltage regulators and capacitors and stuff on my board), but my music room is very noisy, with lots of different kinds of lights and computers and stuff. So I think the NB-10 will be ideal for me.

When I was a kid my school's orchestra did a show at a church hall for an old peoples' chicken & chips and dance thing. I was roped into playing bass with a mate on drums and a couple of girls playing the piano and singing as a little extra "entertainment"... I think we learned three songs for it. One of which was The Locomotion, I can't remember the others. They went nuts! They absolutely loved it and wanted us to carry on. So we ended up playing all three songs again. I remember doing a Christmas disco for a boarding school for handicapped kids. They were all quite subdued to start with, but then a group of them approached me, because I had long hair, to ask if I would ask the DJ to play some heavy metal. Turned out that they were all metal heads! And they proper went for it! Everybody danced, wheelchairs and crutches be damned. They were absolutely the best people we ever did a disco for. They told me that, in the past, none of the discos they'd had would play anything rocky, but they got their hopes up when they saw my hair. Everyone was so grateful that you could feel it.

There's no point being so loyal to a company that just considers you a statistic. And the person worth being loyal to would understand that if they don't build or supply what you need then you'd need to look somewhere else, and they'd be happy for you if you find it.

I hope you all 'ave a good'un! Hopefully I will get some sleep between now and when the in-laws turn up...

This one is easier than the glam (hair) v thrash question. Definitely Death Metal for me. The problems, for me, are going to start when a question pops up where I like a lot of bands in one genre, but I absolutely adore just one band in the other genre, more so than any of the bands in the first.

If we're talking 80s hair metal type glam, then I'd struggle to pick, but I would probably still end up at thrash.

I have two main "set lists" that I play through, each between twenty and thirty songs long. One is for my five string, the other for my four string. They include music from the likes of Willie Nelson and Garth Brooks to Amon Amarth and Bolt Thrower, with all sorts in between. I am not in a band and haven't been for a very long time. Of the nearly sixty songs in the lists, I have only ever played two of them (Megadeth - Peace Sells and Metallica - Enter Sandman) in bands.

I've only seen this situation once, and it wasn't a band I was in. They had just taken on a mate of mine as a second guitarist, as it was his first rehearsal and they were rehearsing a hundred yards from my house, he asked if I'd be there, which wasn't a problem because I was mates with them all (and they were thinking of getting rid of their bass player and were going to ask me to join). The new chap was eighteen and had just come into quite a lot of money, so he blew three and a half grand on new gear. This was the first time he'd used it outside his bedroom... "Dude, that sounds like a wasp in a biscuit tin!" His face dropped like a stone. But then the first guitar explained why, even explaining why it sounds better in his bedroom. He accepted this and they got together with the bass player and sorted out where they each needed to be tonally. I don't understand why this doesn't happen everytime a band takes on a new member. It has certainly been a part of each band I have been in, though there were never any insects in confectionary containers, only slight tweaking needed, if anything.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1450476239' post='2933290'] ... and pull your lightweight cab over (or pull the handle off..!). Go wireless..? [/quote] If someone's [i]that[/i] clumsy, perhaps they should invest in one of those padded helmets with the little propeller on top?! When I first started playing in a band I decided it was a good idea to make a lead that could be screwed into place. There was a collet thing on the plug that screwed onto a nut that was threaded on the outside as well as in that you replaced the nut on your jack socket with. But the lead guitarist in that band had the nasty habit of standing on peoples' leads (though never his own...) and he particularly liked to stand right in front of my amp... I soon learned that that arrangement was a silly idea!

[quote name='Dan Dare' timestamp='1450471226' post='2933240'] Absolutely. Wrap it once round the strap. Only problem is you may pull your amp head onto the floor if it's a lightweight one... [/quote] If you're worried about that, wrap the amp end around the handle of your cab before it goes into the amp.

[quote name='mrtcat' timestamp='1450474442' post='2933272'] Because I wasn't allowed to play drums when I was 12. Had absolutely no interest in guitar (and still don't) and my mates dragged me to see The Hamsters in a local pub. The bass player had this massive trace elliot stack and a really scooped sound that shook the foundations. He grooved so hard and I just I just loved the sheer size of the bass sound. Job done. Next week I had my 1St bass. A week later I was in my first band. [/quote] I had the opposite problem, when I was twelve my dad wanted me to play drums. He had decided he wanted to manage a band and forced my three brothers and me to take up instruments. He had decided I was going to be the drummer, but I was feeling rebellious (a dangerous thing against such a bully) and didn't want him to have it all his own way (if it had been up to me I would have had a radio controlled monster truck). I was really into Iron Maiden and Motorhead, so bass made sense to me. I suggested it and, as he hadn't even considered the bass, he agreed. I still want a radio controlled monster truck.