NancyJohnson

I'll admit I chuckled at bangerfilms.

The disc is years old and out of print, so I doubt the maker will honour anything.

My old band went through many iterations before I found it all somewhat exasperating and jumped. Reckon we may have got up to A (me, obvs), D (second drummer), H (third guitarist) and L (third singer) before things really hit the fan. L decided he didn't think D was any good and argued that we should try out ¥ (a drummer we all knew), to prove a point. So we did, but ¥ wasn't remotely interested in joining, but L thought ¥ would. A knew ¥ wouldn't. A knew D was a bit crap and H was on the fence, but L decided D needed to go and said A needed to tell him. So A told him. It was horrible for A. A then found a new drummer through Facebook (let's call him P) and he was a great player, although Ps raison d'etre was primarily for shagging audience members even while his wife was there. 'Where's P,' she'd say, 'Have you seen him?' L started to make life difficult for A, despite A writing the bulk of the material, and A left, eventually being replaced by Q, R and S, before the band imploded.

I've seen some horror stories, broken headstocks, heels etc.

No. It was pixelated out on the original sale advert, so pretty obvious what was going on. There wasn't any communication from the seller.

Your wish is my command.

It's based on a Gibson Futura, not an Explorer:

Well, this arrived a few minutes ago: No breakages or anything. To be brutally honest, I'm stunned as to how nice it is. Frets need a bit of a polish, strings are nasty, neck is straight, there's no flaws in the finish...even the machine heads seem to hold. Obviously things need a bit of fettling, but for £200, there's nothing here not to like. In all probability the plan is to swap out the hardware; P94s, 300k pots, strap locks and further down the line machine heads. These are a job for future Paulie. [Edit: I've put some fresh strings on D'Addario NYXL), the frets are fine. The fret ends are finished beautifully, no fret sprouts, no buzzy frets (I actually dropped the bridge on the treble side), intonation spot on out of the box. The machines are just great. I haven't had the opportunity to run it through an amp yet; my home combo has been elsewhere for about a year, collecting that tomorrow.

It's this group: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CVDaGASB9/

Mine stopped working years ago...unrecognised by two Sony Blu-ray players and a couple external BD drives. I was royally pissed; the only BR or DVD that just stopped working.

Anyone got a copy of this on Blu-ray? Does it still work? Recent thread on a Rush related Facebook page about how this disc has just stopped working for many owners.

Five days on, no updates 🙃 When I've bought kit from Japan, I seem to remember GB mail services giving a GB tracking number.

I've got a couple of basses that I adore but will never get played in anger ever again. I've no idea why I'm still holing onto them, especially considering I've been offered ridiculous money for one of them. Emotional attachment. The Hamer FBIV hasn't been out of its case in a couple of years and even then it was only for a few minutes to fit a new jack plate.

Nothing wrong with that. Looks like a Warwick without the machine heads being installed on the wonk.

I like the general look of the two shown here, but I'm very much of the mindset that if the body design is asymmetrical then this needs to follow through to the headstock design (a la Gibson EB3) and conversely if the body design is offset, then then a Fenderesque is fine.

Tracking showing it's done a pair of airline flights this weekend. What fun!

I used to play with a guy up in Ealing - we'd pop over to this guitar place locally (Peter Cook? Dunno). One time we were perusing the stock, my mate latched onto a 12 string Stratocaster and one of the staff asked me whether I was man-enough to play a six string TRB. He didn't know I'd depped on the Conklin stand one time. We had this acoustic song called 'Symphony to My Senses', guitarist was playing this up the back of the shop, so naturally I joined in at the front of the shop. It was a beautifully crafted song. There were a few punters in and the place went silent. We played for a couple of minutes and this spontaneous round of applause started up. It was a beautiful moment and the last time I played a six string bass.

Shudder To Think - Pony Express Record. Stuart Hill is a freaking god. In the pocket.

Quick and nasty: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1NuAZjvTulcfGkLBk4bDiO?si=RX92utr6R0OlnDZJHpee9A&pt=67c4a8cd33fb51cc3f8963d165bd0322&pi=EH9du6j9SOuVH

So you want a top 20 songs from me? Ok, wilco. I'll create a Spotify playlist and pop up a link here in a day or two.

Aah, the old tying me up in knots because of what I posted trick, eh? Well played, old man! Well played. Bravo! 😂

Because they're shit, TBH. One-trick ponies.

Five, count 'em in boys, just five Van Halen tracks. Jump (94), Panama (184), Why Can't This Be Love? (293), Hot For Teacher (407), Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (439) - five UFO tracks and just four by Aerosmith (I'd prefer to not include 'I Don't Want to Miss A Thing'). Good f*cking grief. This is populist rock music for people that have insufferable music taste. This is why my preferred station is W-EQX.

I'd concur on the Queen thing. NATO was the last decent Queen album, but I'd say Sheer Heart Attack was their absolute peak. Again though, it's all subjective. My brother taped SHA for me and I listened to it endlessly, along with Sweet's Sweet F*nny Adams and Sparks' Kimono/Propaganda albums. Time, place and circumstances account for a lot. Would they stand up now? If I told my teen nephew to go at listen to them? Probably not.

Aaw come on W, I think you know more than enough where my musical tastes lie. 😏 'Rock' music (along with all it's sub-genres) is simply too all-encompassing to capture within 500 songs, but you have to admit the inevitably of the tracks peppering the top 20/50. I have a mate called Pete (bass player too), lovely bloke, a few years older than me, who would look at that top 20 and all those wretched power ballads and go, 'Yep, yes, absolutely, yeah, Christ yes,' at pretty much everything in there. He wouldn't be considering, or be remotely interested in Alkaline Trio or Fishbone or Jane's Addiction or The Beths or Momma or XTC or Steven Wilson or Pavement, Primus, Living Colour, Veruca Salt, Jellyfish, Smashing Pumpkins (and so on), as these bands simply aren't on his radar and to him they don't represent rock in it's purest - 1970s/1980s - form. The stuff, as a guy nudging 70, he grew up with. The Planet Rock 500 is like those wretched NOW! compilations; it's the songs Neal Kay would spin before the lights went down for the headliners at Hammersmith Odeon. It's awful populist rawk, filtered down to it's lowest common denominator; Queen (and I love early Queen), Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Metallica, Iron Maiden. The only one that suprised me was Rainbow's 'Stargazer at #3. The only reason Alter Bridge are at #8 is because the station probably play it a lot, because sure as hell, Pete wouldn't have just plucked that one out of the ether.