Maude

I'd better reply as I think it was my comment that inspired this thread. Early 90s I think, we went to see Whitesnake with Pride & Glory supporting. I mainly wanted see P&G, being a big Ozzy fan previously, as it was Zakk Wylde's band. Once at the gig we found out P&G had pulled out, bummer but nevermind, it's still Whitesnake it so should be good. About fifteen minutes in there was a lengthy guitar solo, hmm no need for all that fretwankery. Following that, God no please don't, too late, bass solo. Oh how it dragged on, rumbling, indiscernable noise. Anyway it finally ended and I thought great, let's hear some songs, just as the bass drum started thumping. In a Dorothy-esque "There's no place like home, there's no place like home", I clicked my Ruby DMs together and quietly whispered, "Please let a song start, please let a song start". Nope, into the bass drum came some tom fills, then the snare rolls, then the full kit, on and on and on. Please make it stop. It didn't, not for very long time. So we all walked and went clubbing instead.

Flippin' sacrilege. You'll be telling me you were responsible for the removal of raisins from Double Deckers next! 😉

I can only think of Mark & Lard when I see that name, so I'll add 'Frank Spencer Blues Explosion' to the list. 😂

That's Not My Name - The Ting Tings

Convoy - C. W. McCall

Looking Back - Nat King Cole

I've wanted one of these for quite a while, maybe not this one though.

Well I don't bleedin' know do I. I did actually catch one of our own drummers sticks once, just behind my right ear. Apparently trying to get my attention. Bloody drummers. 😁

This could be an interesting separate thread. Signatures and their real counterparts.

I think this is getting way off topic but I do wonder how much of an endorsement deal is just a business transaction and the endorsee just has to use a certain item a few times at high profile gigs to get the brand out there. But soon go back to their preferred items. The drummer concerned was a Vic Firth endorsee but the factory printed signature just seemed a tad crass. It matters not as I gave the sticks to our drummer and pocketed the wedge of cash I extracted from the other drummer. The printed signature of the chief cashier of The Bank of England on the was far more acceptable. 😁

Megablast - Bomb The Bass Ah ah ah ah yeeaah!

If we're going down that road I'll nominate 'Toots and the Maytals'.

That's the point though, they weren't that desirable. Maybe if they were hand signed rather than printed, but they where still just sticks that somebody famous had never used, so just sticks.

Yes, those three bands would be infinitely better than The Kings of Ezraphonics. 👍

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome on stage, The Kings of Ezraphonics.

Semi Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind

Totally, the drumsticks I got weren't from a concert but were given to me as a thank you by the drummer for a job. His signature was printed on them by Vic Firth and I suspect he doesn't even use them when gigging. I gave them to our drummer but he didn't like them.

Lily The Pink - The Scaffold

No plectrums, only drumsticks I'm afraid.

Don't Speak - No Doubt

When is a build not a build? If I were to build a house using concrete pumped in from a lorry for the footings, pre made blocks for the walls, windows, doors, roof trusses made in a factory, slates for the roof quarried and cut elsewhere, paint bought from a shop, etc, etc, would it be a self build or just an assembly of pre made parts? I'd say you've built your own house. The same is surely true of a bass. You can go into a shop a buy one off the wall (or other outlets), but if you sit down, create a plan, order all the individual parts to create a bass of you own spec and then put all those parts together, I'd say you've built yourself a bass. I had a project moved into the 'Build Diaries' section by a moderator as it was getting too in depth for the 'Bass Guitars' section. I'm only bringing an old bass back to life, and didn't consider it a build as such to start with. But as the thread got more in depth the 'Build Diaries' was the only suitable section for it, but apart from a few aspects I'm only really stripping and reassembling parts. Also people's different levels of ability will govern what would constitute a build to them. For someone who isn't a hands on type of person, buying a kit and building and finishing that kit so that they have a playable instrument is a huge undertaking, and to be applauded. To one of the scratch builders on here that same kit might seem like the most mundane of jobs. They are both building though.

Being Boiled - Human League

Intergalactic - Beastie Boys

Camouflage - Stan Ridgway

An epoxied fingerboard compared to bare wood definitely changes your sound as the string is physically vibrating against it, which is what creates the fretless 'mwah' sound. The harder the fingerboard surface, the more pronounced the effect. The 'tonewood' debate is a completely different thing as bodies and necks (not fingerboards) aren't in direct contact with the strings.