Maude

I'm certainly doing less at the moment, and I think those that have heard me would agree with you. 😁

Which actually leads to the next question. How many notes per beat are you talking about? Playing 16ths at 10bpm would require the same dexterity as single notes at 160bpm. Bpm is irrelevant.

Is that just playing 16th notes or more?

I don't think how many notes you can play in a given time is any kind of indication of ability at all. Is a badly timed busy bassist playing a hundred miles an hour all over the fretboard better than one who puts in that perfectly timed single note per bar, whilst locked in with a great drummer to create the heaviest funk groove in town? Sometimes busy is good, sometimes sparse is good. The bassist who knows when to do what will be the most respected. 🙂👍

Safety In Numbers - The Adverts

I've asked them to not to, shhhh. 🤫

I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down - Elvis Costello

Are you all 'awake'? 😆

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Technically there's no reason you can't cut a headstock off and reattach it. Loads of headstocks are glued to the neck with a scarf joint. If you took two inches off the neck, before you glue the head back on you'd need to get a shorter truss rod, which would mean fretboard off. Once the head is glued back on you'd need to reshape the neck all the way along its length to loose the new 'shoulders', then fit a new fretboard and slot it for your new scale. Completely feasible, but ultimately pointless. Edit, I've re-read my post and 'pointless' is the wrong word, especially considering what I'm in the middle of. More an awful lot of work which could go wrong and render the bass unusable, for relatively little gain.

Hellhound On my Trail - Robert Johnson

And if part of punk was about not selling out then Malcom McClaren was never punk. Dressing up as whatever the latest fad was too sell that fashion to to the gullible masses. First a leather clad Rock'n'Roller, then a Teddy Boy, then he saw punk in America and thought I could flog this to Britain. A walking, breathing sellout, yet seen as a central figure in punk. Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? Well not really John, it's just music. 🙂

Talking of Surf. Richard Dale could almost fit in with punk ethics before punk even existed. Ha ha, good old swear filter.

There's just so many offshoots, as with all genres. I seem to remember the Irish tinged punk coming out of Boston such as the Dropkick Murphys being described as Boston Scally Punk. Obviously being punk it has to fit into a neat little pigeonhole. 😄 Perhaps back in the mid/late 70s you could say what was punk or not, but 40 years on it's all too blurred. Saying that, what was punk back when it all started? Were Blondie punk? Talking Heads? They were part of the CBGBs scene and got lumped in with punk. It's all a pointless debate. If it was true punk and played by punks ethics, it couldn't continue, yet it has. So is anything punk now?

Haven't got time to watch it, too busy arguing what's punk and what's not on another thread. 😂😂

I used to do Basket Case and When I Come Around in an old band. WICA has a lovely bouncy, melodic bassline, great to play.

You know what's not punk? Debating what is punk! If I say it's punk, it's punk. Now f**k off!! 😆😆😆

I'd have said Green Day were a pretty key band in the late 80s/early 90s American punk revival scene. That scene was different to the more hardcore scene that was prevalent up to that time, but still very much a punk scene. Some bands bridged the gap, as will always be the case, Operation Ivy were part of the Hardcore scene but slotted into that Revival scene when they morphed into Rancid, Bad Religion were part of both too, along with others. Rancids Hellcat Records and Bad Religions Epitaph launched countless other punk revival bands, along with NOFX's Fat Wreck Chords. Green Day got popular, signed with a major and went for the money, and who can blame them? There's many different areas of punk and little point arguing what's punk or not.

Sleaford Mods. Not Mod music. Apparently before changing their name to Sleaford Mods they were called 'That's Sh!t, Try Harder'. A far more suitable name.

Talking Loud And Clear - OMD

Right Here, Right Now - Jesus Jones

No. I find Reverb is a good tool for judging the value of cheaper basses. You just halve the asking price to find its actual value. The Kay on there has broken that rule by only having a value of a quarter of the advertised price, if you're lucky.

I am devasted reading these comments. I bought my Kay and spent many hours lovingly caressing her back to a pristine playable condition. She had gone through nearly 50 years of being chopped and changed around, but most importantly, being played. Then she came to me where she was given a new look and new lease of life in readiment for the next 50 years of her journey. To hear that she is considered "tat" is, erm, well, bang on the money actually. 😄 It started out life as cheap tat and will end its life as cheap tat, but that's what I like about it.

Right Said Fred - Bernard Cribbins