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What a pub quiz question: What do David Cameron, Curtly Ambrose, Richard Hammond and Hulk Hogan have in common?

We've all done it. In my case frequently. I feel your pain...

I remember the level of fuss when he died and, if memory serves correctly (and it probably doesn't) there was an awful lot of abuse towards the bouncer in the music press.

The Fishman Powerchord does what you are asking for, but it is a tricky little so and so to master. Personally, I use a Darkglass Duality Fuzz and Boss OD3. In both cases I use a very fuzzed /overdriven sound, but with about 75% clean signal so my sound is mostly clean but thickened.

Is the problem that "sloppiness" is a pejorative term?[b] ​[/b]​Santana plays in very free time on occasion, but "sloppiness" would be an excessively harsh judgement.

I'm not sure that any one instrument is easier than any other assuming one aspires to master it.

I heard Mr Holder refer to it as "my pension."

Ha ha ha ha!

[quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1450380878' post='2932292'] I tend to tweak my kids a little to compensate of offending songs. [/quote]

I was keenly feeling my lack of musicality. I had tried piano lessons but felt too inhibited to practice where others could hear me. A friend at school had a bass for sale and I bought it off him and I never looked back.

For people who don't like clicking on links, especially in the working day, it is from a Not the Nine O'clock News sketch, Gerald the Gorilla.

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1450356558' post='2931951'] "The production on that album is amazing..." [/quote] Ha ha ha! I was going to do that reference but you beat me to it! For those who don't know it... [size="2"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beCYGm1vMJ0[/size]

[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1449579974' post='2924793'] I've seen youtube video of an iSeries being driven over by a 4x4 and thrown off a cliff.... [url="http://www.skbcases.com/music/products/proddetail.php?f=&id=647&o=&offset=&c=84&s=75"]http://www.skbcases....fset=&c=84&s=75[/url] [/quote] Just bear in mind that a case only works up to a point. Any movement that involves rapid acceleration and deceleration will shake things loose over time, regardless of what they are packed in. That notwithstanding, you have a super case that could double as a coffin when you are done with it!

I keep my crazy first wife in the attic.

I like The Waitresses Christmas Wrapping because the vocal line keeps it jiggling along and it isn't a really in your face Christmas song. Hotpantz "I'd Like To Give You One For Christmas" is impossible to sing without laughing.

[quote name='timmo' timestamp='1450217257' post='2930729'] Point 4. I still maintain that by the end of 1979 more than 51% of the UK knew who Sid Vicious was, which would be most people. [/quote] While I hesitate to interfere with your maintaining, I feel it behoves me to point out that, in the late 70s, 38.8% of the country were either over 65 or under 10. There was a further 8.7% who were first generation immigrants or the immature children of first generation immigrants. I can't prove it, but I suspect that the Sex Pistols made pretty poor inroads into these demographic groups. If we assume that 10% of pensioners and immigrants knew who Sid Vicious was (and this is a generous assumption) then you need slightly over two thirds of the rest of the country to be able to know who he was and that he played bass. This is improbable in the extreme.

'Monster' by The Automatic always goes down a storm and I find it great fun to play. Not musically sophisticated but is less clichéd than many.

I bought two guitar stools from Thomann for my children to use. They were the only ones with adjustable foot rests as well as stool height that didn't cost hundreds of pounds. Fab company.

Last year I auditioned for a band who were solely 90s Britpop. Before looking at the set I would have said that I really disliked Britpop, but when I saw the songs, it was a brilliant set and they got loads of business off the back of it.

I've been umming and ahhing about buying the AKG twin wireless microphone system for a while. This thread has probably encouraged me to do it.

If there was a bass player whose music was liked by all bass players, I rather think that it would be considered bland and insipid within a few years of his/her death. Inspirational playing, by its nature must be inaccessible/unappreciated to some. Otherwise we would all be heading in the same direction. Therefore, for music to continue to evolve, we must all be influenced by those players who preceded us to different degrees. It doesn't matter by whom you are inspired, as long as you are inspired by someone.

Was his bass any good for metal?

I was tempted to say something indisputably provocative, but bottled it. Nifty fingers.

[quote name='Behlmene' timestamp='1449966122' post='2928494'] Nice, a robot tuner. Next we'll have one to play the intstument for us too. [/quote] We already do. Bones from Compressorhead: [size=2][url="https://vine.co/v/eEOau51jArF"]https://vine.co/v/eEOau51jArF[/url][/size]

Despite scrappy playing from me, a singer recovering from bronchitis who did a sterling job and the odd electronic malfunction the gig rocked. The venue was full, the crowd really got into it and the sound was solid.