Woodinblack

Steve Cram stopped running, so cant be judged by what he is doing now as he stopped doing it. Arguably Bill Gates best work is what he is doing now, so I would say he is getting better as his earlier work which is frankly quite poor. EC carried on making music well past the time we were talking about so he can be judged by what he was doing both up to the 70s and way into the 00s. I am not sure that any of this is not self evident though

Threads are like children, you start them off all well intentioned, then they get their own ideas and throw parties when you are out and get god-knows-what in the carpet and eventually move out to shack up with someone you don't approve of.

To be fair, there is very little to discuss on his music. Like him or loath him you would have to be very positive on his achievements to think that he had done anything actually interesting since the 70s. I always wondered, when people say things like 'if hendrix hadn't died just think what amazing things he would be doing now' and the answer is, you really don't know do you? I would think that he would have continued to innovate, but maybe he would have just stayed stuck doing the same thing. Or he could have gone all synth pop in the 80s and ended up playing vegas. Maybe some memories are better the way they are!

I don't think so - for his songs, the 'voice' of the song is the guitar work. You can have the best drum and bass backing on a blues song but if the guitar isn't reaching you, the song isn't going to either.

As I said earlier, there is a difference between not saying something because you no longer believe it, or because you understand it is not something you can say without implications. It is hard for a casual observer to know which is which.

I got one from ebay some time ago to show we were too loud. It showed we were too loud! And it also showed us how difficult quiet is, and why we don't play places with a sound limiter. The apple watch has a dB meter in it. When I have finished a gig, my watch helpfully has a list of how many times the music was at a dangerous volume, and at the end of the week, which days were bad!

Inc shipping from the US seemed pretty good, can't find them for less than £40 anywhere else (for 45-130)

Agreed - I guess what would be relevant is the context of why did she say that. If she was asked about music in general or older music it would be. If the question was 'do you have an opinion on Eric Clapton, Race and the song Tears in heaven' then it would be a bit more relevant. On the grand scheme of things I am not sure why EC would have any relevance to her, but without knowing who she is I guess I wouldn't. His track record before that didn't show he had a problem with it, but he clearly showed he had a problem with it in the 70s. Easy to blame on drugs and alcohol, but not sure how valid that is. And it was pretty big at the time and since. Opinions have nuance. His at the time didn't. OK, maybe he is a different person now, or maybe he is better at hiding it. I guess we can't know. Just as much here as there. I used to think it was better, but when our countries leaders and influencers decided to stoke the race card to get ahead it showed that it was as bad as ever, it had just got less acceptable to show in public. As soon as they showed it was, it started heading back fast.

I feel his music (since the 70s) is mediocre. Maybe not mediocre, certainly forgettable and ignoreable. Very AI I guess, like if you fed all the 70s mainstream blues songs into an AI, that is what it would play. Maybe that is unfair because he made a lot of those songs, so maybe he is just guilty of sounding like himself. Blues for people who iron their jeans and have to keep their heartrate down because of a pre-existing medical condition I guess. Listening to that video, I also find that pretty 'generic late 90s' - or what I call alice music (from aliceFM in SF, where I was listening). The racism thing is well documented and tears from heaven is a song about his dead baby, so I am not sure there is much to comment on there. So i have no idea who she is, she doesn't do anything special I can see, but that doesn't mean she is wrong.

Most signature models are in the one colour, apart from maybe the St Vincent Guitars, but then she does play all the colours!

So arrived today, so they have taken that long to get here, 20 days. And you are right, no tax or anything and I had actually forgotten I ordered them, so as long as you are getting strings for some time next month they are a good option. So £30 all in, considerably less than the UK. Will still get my general strings from the smaller shops round here, you know, the helping small business thing, but its good for the expensive things.

What are the tuners?

Thats fine for us. They wouldn't be able to raise their voices enough when we are playing to hear, so I guess we are ok! We did one of those. Broke up my last group. Although I think there were only 3 of them at ours.

Thats because it was called something else. Which I keep being asked to change! But that is just about SRs really

I must admit the idea of a switch blend doesn't sound too bad. Its pretty rare you use ever part of the travel on a continuously variable one, and if you do you can never find the setting again. Sounds perfect I just about managed that. Although in the 70s all I had was a passive rickenbacker copy and an active Kay strat (with 3 humbuckers and 9 switches).

Although I disagree with the slightly offset brigade, I didn't see that anyone has said that if the strings go off the pole pieces they go silent! It really doesn't. They are saying that if one of the strings is off the polepieces it will be quieter than the ones over the polepieces. Yours has all of them equally off the polepieces (the same as many fender basses), so they will all be of equal volume.

As I bang on endlessly about. the point of a preamp is to buffer the signal so that it doesn't inject noise and filter out your treble in the long RC circuit that is your cable. The fact you can also change the bass and treble if you have an active circuit is a bonus, but it is more a side effect than anything else. Although I also believe that you don't need an 18v preamp in anything, seeing as you are almost certainly clipping your amplifier when you go much over 2v output from your bass, but that is a different panier de crabes.

Certainly if it was off the polepiece it could affect sustain and tone (both would be technically improved, but not by so much you are going to notice), but there is no way the vibration of that string in that picture is going to move the string away from that pole piece. For that to happen the primary of that string (ie, centre) would have to be moving into the neck

I only how good the drummers I played with were good when I finally played with a bad drummer. That makes the whole thing pointless.

Agreed on the laquer line, but if it is passive what are the two batteries compartments on the back for, storage?

Dark enough to be noticably present and black, but light enough to be able to see the pattern!

Good short term recolection although I suspect it is the sort of thing he would have done anyway. If you can play it you can play it. I do like decent drum videos if there is stuff going on, it is nicer just to have it higher in the mix anyway, or just focus on one part of a song. Sometimes you miss the subtleties when you don't see what is involved. Like here, at 7 minutes - 9 minutes, the left and right hand separation are something I couldn't do, even if I could play drums (which I don't), let alone keep it up for 2 mintues. And you know it isn't cut in because it a multicamera live. Also shows that drummers can get away with such bad clothes choice as they are hidden away!

I like the string spacing on it, but not sure about that line. Not that I guess it would notice much when you are playing it.

I think too much weight can be given to whether a string is over the centre of a pole piece. I doubt it would be possible (all other things being equal) to measure any difference between the output of the G string in either of those string positions. I think the second is better, but only asthetically.

Agreed, but a dark transparant pick guard wouldn't.