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Not quite slanty enough by the look of the alignment.

[quote name='Barking Spiders' timestamp='1481621188' post='3193709'] And indeed many do say it of MK but not me. There are many who diss slap bass but I'm not one of them. We all have our musical beefs and one of mine is guitar shredding [/quote]So all shredding is bad and all slap is good then?

[quote name='Barking Spiders' timestamp='1481538250' post='3192967'] Certainly did know it wasn't EVH but I curse whoever did . Unfortunately tapping and sweep picking have led to the rise of soul less, mechanical fretw***ers across the globe. [/quote]The same could be said of Mark King

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1481548127' post='3193119'] Looking at the release dates of those I doubt the Bootsy album would have been mastered in such a way as to make the best of the medium, in fact it is quite probable that the CD version was made from a second generation pre-EQ'd vinyl production master tape (as many CD back catalogue issues in the 80s were) in which case it won't be a very pleasant listening experience. The majority of music I still have on vinyl is low-budget DIY releases from the late 70s and early 80s, when the pressing quality for all but the biggest selling artists left a lot to be desired. I'm snapping up CD re-releases of these as quickly as they get produced and in every case it's an improvement on the original. I suppose if what you are buying has has a sensible recording and production budget in the first place then good quality vinyl will be pretty decent. [/quote]This was a criticism of a lot of early cd's - eq'd for vinyl.

[quote name='fleabag' timestamp='1481328466' post='3191629'] The thing with vinyl is the fantastic artwork that crept in around the 70's or maybe late 60's And one in particular creamed them all and that was Tull's ' Thick As A Brick ' If anyone is young enough to remember the original and bought it on vinyl ( me ! ) it was utterly fabulous It was actually a bit of a piss take by Anderson, but he went to the extreme, as the album was just one track that started on side one and ended on side two. You had to like Tull i guess to buy their stuff, but it was fabulous music. Quite complex But the sleeve was out of this world. It was the size of a mini broadsheet newspaper, and it had pages and stories just like a newspaper. It really was the ultimate vinyl sleeve, IMO of course [url="http://www.rhino.com/article/doing-a-180-jethro-tull-thick-as-a-brick"]http://www.rhino.com...hick-as-a-brick[/url] [/quote]Well done for going off topic! One of my favourite albums.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1481389205' post='3192000'] One of the interesting things about Squire is that almost nothing he does is actually hard to play. It's just that he and his bandmates were such great writers and arrangers. His ideas were very personal and creative. [/quote]Watched Miguel do The Gates of Delirium afterwards and I must say it looked tricky. I can't even find the timing and that includes most of Fish out of Water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a4gj3A9C3k One of my favourite tracks. This guy's always spot on with his bass tracks.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FENDER-JACO-PASTOURIS-JAZZ-BASS-EX-PINO-PALLADINO-CUSTOM-SHOP-TRIBUTE-/391466045878?hash=item5b2531d1b6 This is also on their site - is this the one that came up a while ago?

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1481196703' post='3190375'] As someone whose band has been releasing vinyl there are pros and cons... Pros: It looks and feels great. An album on 12" vinyl is big serious statement of intent. Even a 7" single looks more impressive than a CD, and with my graphic designer's hat on, you really can't beat the enlarged canvas that vinyl packaging allows you. It's popular. I'll be the first to admit, that one of the main reasons we've been releasing our music on vinyl is because we sell more copies and make more profit per copy sold, than if it was released just on CD. Cons: It doesn't really sound very good. Admittedly the quality of vinyl these days is substantially better than it was back in the 70s and 80s when I was last buying it. I dug out some albums and 12" singles from the early 80s in order to play them the other day, and compared with even a modern "low quality" 120g pressing they felt flimsy and insubstantial. However a well produced and mastered 16Bit 441.1kHz digital file will always out-perform even the best vinyl from a sonic PoV. The CD version of the Terrortones album sounds better than the vinyl version when played back to back. Each version was specifically mastered for the intended delivery medium, but unfortunately vinyl simply can't compete sonically. There are all sorts of technical limitations to what can be reproduced on vinyl when it comes to bass, stereo imaging and phase effects. None of these affect digital files. You need decent (and expensive) playback equipment to get the best out of it. A digital file just needs a good quality DAC, and these days the gap in quality between consumer grade and professional DACs is not very big and it's getting smaller all the time. While it's perfectly possible to enjoy your vinyl on a junk-shop Dansette (although these are by no means cheap any more), to get the best out of it you need to invest in a good quality turntable, tone arm, cartridge etc. and get them set up properly and keep them maintained. Even then, every time you play your vinyl you are damaging it. A good deck and careful handling of the medium will minimise this, but ultimately every play wears the record slightly. A properly backed-up digital file will last forever and sound exactly the same as the day it was digitised. It is expensive to produce and therefore expensive for consumers to buy. 500 copies of the Terrortones album cost £4000 to make including the recording. We could have had 1000 CDs for around half of that. On top the increased production costs of the actual vinyl over CD, there was the increased printing and production costs for the larger 12" packaging, and finally there was the cost of the extra mastering optimised for vinyl cutting, as well as the standard digital master for downloads. It's heavy and bulky to store and easy to damage. Both for the producer and consumer. My large collection of CDs occupies the wall one side of the chimney breast in my lounge, and if I really wanted I could pack them all away in a handful of boxes, and just listen to the versions stored on my iTunes server. I dread to think how much space (and what sort of re-enforced shelving) I'd need if it was all on vinyl. The first Terrortones release - 500 CDs came in couple of easily lifted cardboard boxes. 500 copies of the album on vinyl was 6 very heavy boxes on a pallet! Also because of the size and weight of the vinyl, they had suffered damage in transit and I had to replace the paper sleeves of a whole box worth of records. Then when it comes to mailing them out, CDs can go in a small jiffy bag with a bit of extra bubble wrap. Total P&P cost for a UK address under £2.00. The vinyl needs a proper album mailer with a cardboard stiffener, and is a lot heavier with a total P&P cost of around £4.00. All of that has to passed on the the consumer. So, as an artefact vinyl is great. Even a 7" single is big and impressive, but as a delivery medium for music - which after all is what it is designed for - there's a lot of better ways to do it nowadays. BTW. For those who are analog purists, almost every record release made in the last 20 or so years will have gone through a digital stage somewhere between when the instruments were mic'd up and the vinyl being cut, so any perceived inadequacies of the digital process will have been added to those of the vinyl medium. [/quote]Nice one. In your pipe and smoke it digital/digital/vinyl lovers.

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1481190631' post='3190327'] FYI - Most records fall well below £25 after a while. Most of The Smiths albums are £12.99 or less, HMV sales have classic reissues of The Clash for £9.99, etc.... [/quote]That's £12.98 and £9.98 more than they're worth respectively.

We're all playing to the drum volume of course - ie the guitar volume which has to be louder. I understand drummers who complain that electronic drums aren't tactile enough but hey how about modifying your technique?

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1481206636' post='3190542'] Coming up closely behind [url="https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/bison-ugly-bass/1203343877"]https://www.gumtree....bass/1203343877[/url] [/quote]WTF!

[quote name='overdriver' timestamp='1481151436' post='3190167'] E I have to sit down!!! I always wondered where his went. his best tone IMO Could you find out the serial number for the s/n register? [/quote]I'll make some enquiries - he's abroad with a tour right now.

This should be good...

Did they try for fugly?

The body's a bit Jazz meets Bongo too.

[quote name='Daz39' timestamp='1481116856' post='3189817'] Yes - it is possible to be mentally ill and still be a supreme bellend. [/quote]

I heard the horse and cart's making a comeback too

Had the same snag recently. Rock guitards with small dicks are the problem.

Mediocrity will always have a place at Radio 2 - they're playing his single this week.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1481065838' post='3189513'] ? I have no downer on chorus. Quite the opposite. [/quote]Sorry I was supporting your comment - it just didn't come out right

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1480981239' post='3188798'] If all my fretless playing sounded like Mo Foster, I would be happier than a pig in sh*t. [/quote]Why the snobby downer on chorus? Chorus and octave, learn Sledgehammer and have a blast.

[quote name='uk_lefty' timestamp='1481011368' post='3188866'] Looper maybe? So you can do some finger funk soloing over a nice repeating drone (meant in the good way) of notes providing a foundation. Chorus, octave, reverb... Compression. [/quote]Soloing?

[quote name='chardbass' timestamp='1481022514' post='3188988'] Massive Industry back-slapping backhander alert. Album to promote for a failing artist and a build up to a reunion/anniversary tour (which happened a few years back with Progress so they've stolen their own thunder already) to push. [u]Massively[/u] successful performer/recording artist? Yes. Icon? My arse. [/quote]This. I'm always suspicious when the tail appears to be wagging the dog.

Media types looking for something to go BIG about. As good as Bowie and Elton - chuckle. On the up side, rumours of a TT 25th anniversary* reunion tour next year. *Anniversary tour, usually concerning a particular album which usually involves listening to the filler you always skipped.