Woodinblack

For me the worst offender is the intro to the album, welcome to the jungle, it really builds up like it is going to be a flat out rock tune, then it takes a pause, and then what sounds like a character from the simpsons starts singing, and brings the energy of the track right down.

phi's voice is like nails on a blackboard, so whiney. I have seen them twice as friends like them, obviously he/they are way worse in real life but even on the record without him they could have sounded great

which would have been a reasonable album if only they got a decent singer

I thought most were made in china apart from the CTM tube ones - maybe that is why it is more expensive?

Well, yes, but I have also never paid an RRP for an amp, so I don't think the price is as important. If you look at the list price of all the amps they are quite a lot, and luckily enough there are enough forums telling people how terrible Class D amps are to keep them in business!

I dont' think it needs an upgrade does it. you use your amp until something happens where you need another one, but if you were looking for a new thing, there is the new thing. There are still plenty of 3s and 2s around.

I have often thought of drilling a hole in the front for a tuner, its something I have had on most amps I have in the last decade.

In the last 2 years, I guess since just before the pandemic, prices on vintage or desirable instruments have rocketed up. I agree overall they haven't gone up much more than inflation but something has changed again. No the amount of disposable income has plummeted among the younger demographic, but it is not them that are buying vintage fenders, it is much older people who are doing it, and that disposable income has increased. Young are doing what they always were. They are buying 5-10 year old basses like they always have, just that a 10 year old bass is now 2010, whereas a 10 year old bass when I started playing was a 68-70s. When I first started playing the one thing everyone would say is not to buy and old fender (ie, 70s) because they were terrible. They weren't, some were ok, some were bad some were great. At the moment and over the pandemic, a lot of people have got a lot better off, although the overal amount of money people earn hasn't moved at all, the top has really accelerated away from the bottom, the gap between the top 10% and the bottom 10% grew a lot.

Sounds excellent!

What sound is that? I have played 6 60s jazzes and they haven't sounded the same. In fact, from sound I wouldn't be able to put a decade on anything. The best sounding Jazz I ever played was a 1965 jazz, sounded great (no use though, not enough strings). However, one of the worst jazzes I have ever played was a 1966 jazz - a squier affinity would have probably sounded bettter, anything would. The 66 was more expensive though as it was original, whereas the 65 had had a refret and had a replacement pot. And frankly what they sound like or play like is not really so important to their value. There is no bubble, it is an appreciating asset, there are (and can be) only certain amounts of 60s basses, that number is going down, and the number of people with disposable income is going up, so they will keep appreciating. There are no shortage of bankers or stock brokers who have a display case for one.

I never really liked the white stripes, but I liked the album he did afterwards. But this I like, will dig more out, and also the first use of a theramin in a rock track for a while which has to be a good thing!

I think there probably appears to be a difference in opinion between companies that make things and get ripped off, and companies that dont or are just admin sorts. It is really galling to see something you put effort into making being just taken and sold by other people. And no, it is never a compliment to see something you did being ripped off by other people.

Yes, they are japanese so they put the words the other way round

Fender Special Run obviously!

Your name -> Profile then on your page, edit profile and I guess edit signature if that is what you mean by your gear listing? Obviously it depends on what device you are doing it with

Mine aren't fingerless, they are most definitely fingerfull!

Indeed - my polytune works fine with all my 5s.

He would have wanted Elton John dead too? I guess thats fair!

I beleive he toured as a hologram at some point didn't he?

All prices are silly now, and once things get in the collectable time then they are just bought because if you hold onto it for a few years, you can double your money, they have ceased to actually be instruments, and are just assets, like a wine or a painting, they are probably not going to be played.

You did or they did?

I regularly do it, I guess you just need to try harder.

I have black silk gloves I use when it is cold and I am outside, they stop it from hurting.

Not really that much of an issue if you are using slow attack sounds, or have a dry signal too. Obviously if you wanted to use synth lead sounds on the lowest strings with no bass content, it would be a lot trickier (although you can then just play ahead of the beat)

Sounds great, certainly no volume issue there, although don't know why they can't run a cable out the window