KingBollock

All I mean is that you sometimes don’t get the answers you want, because people may not have understood the way you phrased your question. I mean no offence.

I think the Warlock is the best looking shaped guitar in all of the world. They only made the model that I have between 1999 and 2009 (I think, I should recheck), but I was asked in 1989 what my ultimate guitar would be and I described the Warlock that I have, almost exactly. Granted I was only 14, but 34 years later I still adore it.

I don’t think he’s jumping down anyone’s throat. It seems to me that he is a bit frustrated with not being able to express himself.

One day I am going to get around to putting a proper pedalboard together. In antici………pation of that day, I have built a little switch box. It is basically two loops - A and B - and the switch changes which loop goes first. Because there doesn’t seem to be a definitive order for pedals, I thought such a switch would come in handy for experimenting for myself. It’s just a box, half a dozen sockets, a couple of LEDs, some wire and a footswitch. Very simple to knock up if you can solder.

Leather, Australian style cowboy hat. My main hat is now a red, leather Stetson Newsboy.

Dagnimmit! You’re supposed to say no! I’m this > < close to asking if you’d sell it..!

Is it the silver/grey one?

Yeah, rub it in why don’t ya! Y’lucky bugger!

That’s the only thing that would bother me about buying a replacement Raider (which I will do, given the chance), I really, really miss the smell of the hard case that I had for mine.

If I was ever to come into a lot of money, there are some signature basses that I would like to collect. There’s the Steve Harris blue one, but that’s not pointy. However, I would like the Blackie Lawless BC Rich Widow and a Jo Bench Ironbird.

My headless Flying V is also a very vivid yellow. It was originally a translucent red, so I know that it has a good looking wood under the paint. So I am going to strip it and stain it walnut (hopefully this year, though it has been an ongoing, rolling project since 1995…).

My Raider was my Christmas present for 1987, too. Nothing wrong with naff 80s Hair Metal! With any luck, I have an upcoming project that involves that very genre. A drummer has found me that wants to bring back Hair Metal. I don’t know why that, when he saw a photo of me, he thought Nikki Sixx… I look more like Nikki Sixx ate Vince Neill! Mind you, I’ve bought a Thunderbird now, so I suppose I am committed (or should be…).

If you see one in silver/grey, I’ll fight you for it!

Thanks! It does look cool, but I think I’d struggle to justify even a cheap bass right now. I rather like the idea of building a kit. Maybe one day.

Love that! When you say cheap… How much and where from?

Do you mean Red/Gold or the Raider II with a red body and black headstock? The bass player I replaced in the first proper band ever I joined, had the red/gold version.

My very first bass was a Westone Raider I. One of my biggest regrets is having to sell it and, should I ever find one, I will buy another. My current number one bass is a BC Rich Warlock. I also now own a Thunderbird, but that’s fairly rounded. And a headless Flying V (not a bass, though I did once narrowly miss out on getting its bass twin). Seeing the other posts in this thread reminds me of a guitar (not a bass, sadly) that we had in the guitar shop I worked in when I was a kid. It was a BC Rich Ironbird in black with pink crackle. It was glorious! *Neither of these photos are of my own basses.

Do you know what? I think that, due to this thread, I might well be. My number one is my BC Rich Warlock. I have/had all these plans for it. New tuners, including a drop tuner, new pickups (DiMarzio DP127 because they look cool) and a better, more versatile preamp. But now I really think about it, I don’t really think I’d be making any actual improvements that would make much difference. If I had one niggle, it would be that the centre detente on the pick-up blend knob is difficult to feel. Oh, having just said all that… I still think I am going to replace the control cover plate. I want to make one with a built in battery compartment, so that I don’t have to take all the screws out just to change the battery. So, I suppose, the answer is actually no. Oh well!

I have recently bought my first bass with a front mounted jack socket. I have only ever owned seven basses, though, this being the seventh. I’ve never had a problem, but then I have never known any different. I always remove the plug before putting the bass down anyway, a habit I developed to save on preamp batteries.

I’ve got my entire Hair Metal playlist on shuffle. I’m singing along very, very loudly, and very, very badly. I messaged my wife to tell her not to walk in without warning me. I told her I was watching porn.

One of the strongest memories caused by music also involves a smell. In 1991/2 I worked with a mobile disco. We had a couple of brilliant DJs, and I love all the pop music from then because of it. But the smell of the coconut scented smoke from the smoke machine proper does a number on my feels. I actually own a smoke machine that has coconut scented smoke. It’s left over from when I put my own mobile disco together in 1999. Mainly so I could play with the lights, but also because I loved working on the earlier disco. There are some songs that I can’t listen to because they take me back to another time that hurts to think about. And they’re great songs.

I adore the look of the DP127 in black, I’d love to have them in my Warlock. But my Warlock is a double P, so it gets a bit pricey having to have two sets. Especially as I don’t know how they’d sound in it. I suppose I could buy one set to see how it would sound, and if I wasn’t keen I could put it in my Westfield. But the pick-up would cost more than that bass is worth…

I know this isn’t an expensive bass, but it’s the only experience I have of this sort of thing. I bought my dream bass over EBay, a second hand BC Rich Warlock NT. The action on it was stupidly high, and it had to have been right from the factory because everything was bottomed out. Flat neck and perfectly cut nut, but the bridge saddles were too tall, despite being as low as they would go. My first thought was to replace the bridge, but I couldn’t find one that would be any better. It would have to be very low profile, 10mm maximum. In the end it was either recess the bridge into the body, which I didn’t feel comfortable doing, or grind the bottom off the saddles until they were half their original height, which is what I did. It plays beautifully now.

Thank you. It’s not cheap, but it is very tempting. The one I’ve got is the GS412B Plus, and it’s ace. Apart from not being quite tall enough to take my Warlock. http://herculesstands.com/international/products/fretted-and-bowed-instrument/guitar/single-stands-(1)/gs412b-plus/ It takes my Thunderbird fine, so I think it should be ok for an Explorer.