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Bass: Jamie Stewart - Original Cult bass player Steve Harris Juan Croucier Cliff Burton John Taylor Adam Ant Guitar: Fields of the Nephilim's chaps - love that chiming goth sound Robbin Crosby Dave Mustaine Andy Taylor

Mark Lanegan (RIP)

I bumped into Shane Embury from Napalm Death in a Waitrose a few years ago. Really nice guy who took the time to shake my hand. Poor bloke being bothered by a star struck 40 something while he did his weekly shop.

I doff my cap to you sir! That was most excellent. \m/

In the first band I played in, I never once tuned my bass, or changed the strings. Prior to our first gig I told our guitarist, who was a perfectionist, that I didn't know how to do it properly. For 3 years he kept my bass in perfect tip top shape. I would rock up with a new set of strings every now and again, pass them onto him and leave him to work his magic while I smoked a Marlboro or two and supped on a Newcastle Brown Ale. Happy days!

I always found Peter & The Test Tube Babies pretty funny. Quite self-deprecating and awfully British Punk. I like this particular track as the guitar line in the chorus conjures up the image of a punk lad 'running like bloody hell'.

I have a 2016 version - about 3.2kg. I may have worn it down over the years. I can vouch for them and say that they are very light, comfortable and a joy to play.

He's a recent convert to metal. I've been enjoying his exploration of Iron Maiden and Tool.

Gojira - Fortitude is definitely up there for me in terms of fav. albums of this year. But my favourite so far is Rivers of Nihil - The Work, closely followed by Whitechapel - Kin (which seems to get better and better with each listen)

The truss rod and neck on the SR are pretty responsive. If you make a small tweak - 1/4 turn or less, retune and leave for an hour, I find the neck has shifted sufficiently to resolve the relief issue. I had this on my SR500 when I changed strings. Loosen truss rod a 1/4 turn (left when facing the truss rod) to increase the neck relief and retune. Should be good. PS> Always fancied an sr500 5 string - so if this doesn't work for you - feel free to give it me and I'll look after it - indefinitely! ;0)

Despite being a metalhead - i have a soft spot for anything Roxy and Ferry. Nicely done sir. I enjoyed this a lot. Well done!

It's a weird one the pick. I can play rhythm guitar reasonably well, I use a pick just fine. Holding a pick and playing bass and I am all over the place, can't skip strings, hammer ons etc. are woefully weak and it just feels wrong. I tried to learn to play bass with a pick for faster songs, but gave up and spent some time developing a three finger technique a la Alex Webster from Cannibal Corpse.

Trompe Le Monde - Cracking Album, played that to death. U-Mass, what an awesome song.

Her really bad period pains. 😄

The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland. Changed the way I thought about and wrote music. Prior to this, all I did was listen to heavy metal. To this day, it's still my favourite ever album and still sounds as immense and majestic as it did when I first heard it in 1987.