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Wild Thing, although describing my fellow 14 year old band members as 'musicians' is pushing it.

https://reverb.com/uk/item/55271649-epiphone-explorer-bass-2002 I presume there's some sort of typing error or maybe a rogue pricing algorithm at work here, unless I'm missing something?

Market forces I guess. Maybe they see the fact that people still buy tickets as a validation that they're still good enough to perform.

I'm not too worried. There's always been a few bands with no bass player. Carter USM back in the 90s, White Stripes in the noughties and more recently Slaves. More concerning is that it seems to be increasingly normal for big pop acts to record bass guitar sounding lines that are either played on keys using a realistic patch or just programmed in on a laptop. Bruno Mars and Dua Lipa spring to mind. Although reassuringly Mars still takes a flesh and blood bass player out as part of his live band.

It looks like it belongs in one of Prince's bands. I mean that as a compliment, very pretty in a quirky sort of way.

Sounds like I'm a bit late but has anyone suggested the Schecter Dug Pinnick There's one at peach guitars. https://www.peachguitars.com/schecter-doug-pinnick-dp-12-black.htm?opt=34390&gclid=CjwKCAjwsfuYBhAZEiwA5a6CDGZ8WpIzxDEYluO5Wulqw74Y5cbmjV80o5egRM4pbouTVaSH7HgRYhoC-vMQAvD_BwE

I don't know if anyone ever said it was their worst album but I was a huge fan of AC/DCs 'Blow Up Your Video' during my metal years, which coincided with it's release. You never hear people mention it now but 'Heatseeker' and 'Thzt's the Way I Like My Rock'n'Roll' are definitely up there with my all tme favourite tracks from the band.

I've got nothing useful to contribute, just very happy to see you doing another build.

I'm sure the custom shop stuff is great but there's a certain irony that a lot of it seems to be supposedly reproducing instruments that Leo Fender originally designed to be mass produced in factories. Vintage Fenders weren't lovingly handcrafted by a single luthier. They were bolted together by about 15 different guys on a production line.

The Pretenders are a bit of a revelation for me. I'd only ever heard their Christmas single and Brass in Pocket and assumed they were a sort of middle of the road AOR band, but this is awesome.

Counting Crows: August and Everything After Maximo Park: A Certain Trogger Not a weak song on either album and, in my opinion, whilst both bands released some strong material over the years that followed neither of them ever got close to that level of excellence again.

Funnily enough he's never had a reputation (that I've heard) for being a sleaze. I say 'funnily' because there were all sorts of stories about him being every shade of @rsehole especially in the early days of Metallica and Megadeth, from generally treating people like dirt up to full on violence. I say this as someone who was an avid fan from Peace Sells to Countdown. The man is an indisputable musical genius and one of the best guitarists of any generation, but no one ever accused him of being a nice guy.

I don't own any albums but from what I've heard of 'Bring Me the Horizon' on the radio over the years they're basically a pop metal band who have they're roots in the Emo thing that manifested in the 2000s. I don't mind them, they seem to be one of the very few heavy guitar bands put together after the turn of the millenium that has the kind of fanbase that can sell out arenas.

I live just down the road from them, although I've never been to either. I'd feel a bit out of order these days turning up to try out high end gear that I've got no intention of buying, although I did just that at Musical Exchanges in Brum pretty much every weekend as a teenager. Strange that Leamington Spa has become become one of the best towns for high end bass gear in the country!

As I understand it Bassbros and BD are only a few miles from each other, so it would be convenient for anyone visiting one to drop by the other. (Although I think Bass Bros is 'by appointment only).

Cheap bin liners are a false economy because you end up having to double or triple bag everything.

Cheesecake.

Generally my reaction to Coldplay ranges from indifference to irritation, but this is a fantastic bit of songwriting, one of my favourite tunes of the last 20 years.

I think they look great. Agree about the neck dive though.

Forget Blood Sugar.... Mother's Milk is where the Chili Peppers peaked. They were almost a different band after that, still an excellent one, but they were never that raw and funky again.

I think they'll be worth less unless guitar based music comes back in a big way because there will be less nostalgia for them, but I think that will be after Gen X is gone rather than the Baby Boomers.

No idea if he's in a band at the moment. There's a video of his online where he talks about his 'journey' In a nutshell he started playing at school, went on to spend several years studying at a prestigous US music college at which point he was also gigging seven days a week in multiple bands in different genres. When he eventually returned to the UK he found himself unable to successfully monetise his skills until he got a lucky break when Davey504 featured him in one of his vids. Since then Youtube has been his main musical focus. Fairplay to him for finding a way to make a living doing what he loves.

About 30 years ago a lad I knew got himself what was at the time a pretty high end keyboard/synth. That was the first time I heard programmed bass patches that sounded pretty much indistinguishable from a real bass gutair and I wondered then if bass guitar had a future. 30 years on and we're all still here. I do think playing 'real' stringed instruments in a pop music context has become a lot more niche over the years, a growing number of big box office acts seem happy to play to partial or full backing tracks live rather than taking a full band out. There will always be a place for old fashioned bands though, although they'll probably be more prevalent in some genres rather than others.

It'll make learning a part by watching someone else a lot more challenging. Likewise those those YouTube tutorials that concentrate on visually demonstrating the fretting hand movements whilst describing notes as "second string 5th fret".

The tort and the sonic blue set each other off perfectly. The whole is greater than the sum of it's parts.