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I bought one of these. I could handle the neck dive ok as I loved the look so much but it was so underpowered. We played in two different tunings so I used two basses but changing to that I had to muck about with my amp volume. I sold it.

I downloaded Firefox for Mac and tried Youtube. Got adverts then realised I have Adblock plus on Safari but not on Firefox. Downloaded Adblock plus onto Firefox and I am now ad free on YouTube. What an incredible relief.

Blocked on Safari. I have an iMac which uses Safari. I might have to change.

I have Ad block plus and I get lots of ads

I have an Ibanez K5 which is a lovely bass but it has a very narrow string spacing which seems to be common on Ibanez guitars in general. I struggle with playing it as my sausage fingers get caught up. I know its just familiarity as I don't have any problem with playing guitar. it's just the thicker bass strings being so close to each other makes me sweat.

You are so lucky mate. Do you have an ad blocker by any chance? I have one but it doesn't work anymore for Youtube

Thats sad to hear as I too have always wanted a Thunderbird. I do have a Gibson Les Paul Bass which surely is much the same sound wise and I like the sound from it. I did own an Epiphone T bird a few years ago and found it totally underwhelming. The pick ups were quiet and I had to turn up at the amp to compensate.

It's so annoying now because even with ad blocker you are forced to watch an advert and more often than not two adverts every time you want to watch a video

I was too mate but that was my original point. I have found my musical tastes have developed and evolved over the years. I STILL love these old bands and Rush are my all time favourites but I LOVE hearing new music and finding new bands. I find I can listen to music from all genres and enjoy it.

couldn't agree more mate, I love this!

I have one of these and a few years ago I was taking guitar lessons and my teacher was going on tour as bass player with a well known band. I said I have a lovely Geddy Lee bass. he said I'd love to try it. I said why don't you borrow it to tour with and see what you think. He took it and said I'll put new strings on it for you before I give it back to you. He toured and came back and said it was amazing. He loved it and the rest of the band loved it. he gave it back to me with dead strings and then never even gave me so much as a free lesson. His lessons used to be mostly talking to me about basses and my job anyway. I stopped going as it was a waste of money. 45 minute lesson and 15 minutes of that was actual teaching.

Yes but I aint saying as I might want to sell a couple of them on here at some point

A lot of Anthonys bass work in VH was just douga douga douga douga throughout solos and it never felt empty.

I had never heard about it. Thanks for the heads up. I watched a trailer and it looks right funny!

Nah, cookie monster ok but out of time? I can't be doing with that!😉

whilst I agree, Infant Annihilator above being one such example. If the video didn't have lyrics I wouldn't have a clue what they were talking about. I think sometimes these lyrics are thrown in as shock value in much the same way as devil worship was played with tongue in cheek back in the 80's. A lot of those bands were decried by the church as being evil and they used to laugh as they supped their tea and biscuits at the ones who were sucked in by the act.

What you mean like this? I like this. This must take some vocal dexterity.

I remember Slipknot when they first appeared on our tv screens. I thought they were funny and never took them seriously. I bought my mate one of their cd's as a laugh for his 40th. Now I have all of their albums and I absolutely love them. My tastes have changed so much over the years. every genre that I dismissed has now become listenable to me. I find that I pretty much like everything apart from a few exceptions which have been addressed in other threads.

Interesting replies guys. I have found myself nodding along to some pretty wild stuff that I would never have listened to before. I play music almost all the time on random so when I hear a really heavy number its usually isolated amongst anything from dance to classical. Possibly this allows me to enjoy these songs more as it might be too much to listen to a whole album but then again I would say that about any band.

I'm with you on that F.F.D.P. and L.O.G. I really like!

I was just wondering, as I am at heart a real rocker. My musical journey started when I was into the NWOBHM in the 80's. When Metallica came out I thought they were too trashy and metal for my taste. Later as I grew older I came to like and then love Metallica and as I grew even older and my musical tastes widened I found that my metal tastes were also widening. Music that had once horrified me as being too over the top became very normal to me. I found myself able to comfortably listen to some quite extreme metal. When I met Mrs Ubit I was amazed that she was into even more extreme metal than me. I remember our first dinner together at my house. We had the dinner, wine and tunes on and wham, some extreme metal came on. I jumped up apologising and she said leave it on I like it. I couldn't believe it. I knew then she was a keeper. EVERY girl I had dated before had hated my taste in music. As we have been together for many years now I have had her influence come into my playlist and have found that I can quite comfortably listen to Vivaldi one minute, Owl City the next and then Meshuggah. Just how heavy are your tastes? I don't mean quite liking but where you can comfortably listen to all of their music. Also where does this stop? Who goes too far? I remember I thought this was extreme. Now I love it to bits.

The only bass that I just couldn't get on with was a Steinberger. I was given a lend of one years ago.I like to rest my wrist or hand on the body as stability for playing with my fingers. The Steinberger kept wanting to turn left as I put pressure on the fingerboard. As I had nothing to press back on I found I was struggling to stand in one position. It was an uncomfortable experience.

I really loved the metal of the 80's but for me the 90's was my decade. The music suddenly changed and evolved into something I really liked. Grunge was fantastic to my ears and I also loved the brilliance of Trent Reznor. Hair metal had gone and rock was more sophisticated. The 2000's has seen an even bigger evolving of rock and metal. Don't get me wrong, metal is not my be all and end all. I have a very eclectic taste but rock and hard rock and very hard rock are still going to be my go to. I still enjoy hearing new music and still get blown away by how music evolves yet stays the same.

Ah, we are polar opposites. I hate the Doors and I love NIN