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Boston's 'More than a feeling', starts out badly... I looked out this morning and the sun was gone... Hmmmm, no?! If that were the case, this would imply that this occurred after the 8 minutes or so that we'd still receive the light from the sun after it had disappeared. If this was actually the case, rather than putting on some music to start his day, it's more likely that he would be trying to deal with the effects of the change in gravity, cowering in the wake of relentless earthquakes and tsunamis, and desperately to stay warm as the earth cooled rapidly as it plunged off into space.

'Anything you want, you got it'.... Oh, really... where's my Fodera?

There is not a 'kind of hush all over the world'.

I would suggest that Nat King Cole would have been more accurate if he'd sung 'When I fall in love, it will be until you turn into a perma-grumpy, nagging harpy'. Similarly, in Natalie Cole's cover of her Dad's hit, 'When I fall in love, it will be until you become a lazy, inattentive sh!t', would have been more factually correct.

Though I have no real proof, I strongly suspect it was actually raining water, as opposed to Men.

It could have been totally legit. For eBay I'd probably give it a miss, but on here, having only good experiences, personally I'd have taken the buyers feedback as a reference. I'm not really shopping at the moment, but if one of the couple of higher value things I've promised myself came up it's a request I might make myself. I usually do bank transfer, but had an email from PP Credit a couple of weeks ago offering 0% for 12 months. That's probably something I'd take advantage of if possible, their usual thing is 4 months interest free, so it's a decent promotion. Of course I'd understand if the buyer didn't want to risk it though.

Lol. Take a guess.... Maybe the offender also had to contact you last month cos they'd fluffed up. i mean... What kind of idiot...? 🤣

The last 45 minutes of Freebird?

My contribution to the June 2020 Basschat Composition Challenge, inspired by a picture chosen by last month's winner, Leonard Smalls. The picture asked me for a dumb, rough, punky, sub 3 minute romp.... so that's what I did. Lyrically, I suspect the guys in the pic were a welcome sideshow, looking at the band, but I've drawn on my years at bike events, where there was often a bunch of chubby, beardy, middle aged attention whores, often in tutus and fairy wings, being 'hilarious' and 'wild', because they're' soooo crazy' and 'don't care what anybody thinks' (except they do, obvs)... Getting in the way of people who actually want to watch the entertainment they've paid for. A novelty at first, but irritation after the first few times. All recorded in Cubase Elephants, with bass and guitar through the Helix. Drums courtesy of the Mrs, and Roland. **** Not totally worksafe, verse 1 contains a single, mid-scale profanity (Tw@t) ***

Maybe a bit modern, and with a slight rocky bias, but I love Bob Fridzema's keys on the King King Live album.

Metallic..... That was the word I was looking for.... 'Effecty'.... 🤣

I bought it on spec off a mate who was having a clearout, without seeing any reviews. I was pleasantly surprised. Tracking is good, and while in isolation the effects themselves could sound a little 'effecty' (if that makes any sense?), in a room, with a band, they sit really well.

I have their Critical Mass pedal. Kind of a rock biased variation of the others. It has doubling, octaves and gang vocal stuff, along with the same reverbs as the others. I was surprised how good it is, makes me sound much less stinky poo.

What Maude said is bang on. Your tuner is fine, if you listen the the lower patterns you play on the same strings it's fine. Intonation is just one of those little maintenance tasks you often have to do on a new bass, as well as after making neck adjustments or changing strings. Once you've got it, it's just a minute to check and 5 mins to adjust... I'm sure it's all over YouTube too.

If ever a picture called for bagpipes.... This is it!🤣

Really nicely played, you should be proud.😎 But, and maybe its just my ears, the higher parts at the beginning sound way out of tune. might be worth checking your intonation.

I think I've made sensible decisions with basses but I hear you on the Westbury.... A lovely bit of kit. Unable to find a suitable guitarist, I decided to put the guitar parts down myself on our in-progress recording. Given a fair bit of choice, with the studio having a few really nice guitars, my old Westbury still ended up doing 95% of the work!

Damn this thread! Plague everywhere, uncertain future at work, and I've spent half the day looking at bloody Spectors!

I'm a fan big the Beatles, but I always loved that version.

I don't think it's a matter of standard... It's very well done, but in an awful, insincere, souless, dry way. (To my ears, obviously). It's a danger of covering a 'classic'. They're a classic for a reason, a time, a place, a zeitgeist, or whatever. I've heard cover bands make it sound better. Then again, live and dirtier is always better.

It does... Different strokes and all that. I'm not a massive fan of the original to be honest, but those guys (or rather their producer to be fair) have sucked what little soul there was out of it for me. I don't think I could hate it more.

I once backed out of an audition because of that song! 🤣 I'd asked the guy for some tunes to get down in advance and he sent me that version... It had passed me by until then, surprisingly. "It's much better than the original" he said. I laughed my 'arris off at first listen. Damn, if only they'd realised that what that song needed was some generic nu-metal guitar tones and some autotuned vocals, Fleetwood Mac could have been as famous as... Er... Who was it again? I was on the phone making my excuses within minutes.

Something about abalone?