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BC is easily my most visited website. In some ways it's like a support/recovery group. But one where the members actively encourage each other to do more of the thing that they're addicted to. So actually pretty much the opposite of a support/recovery group. Anyway seems like a good time of year to say a big thank you to Ped and the team for setting BC up and making it the fantastic place that it is.

It wasn't a totally terrible album, it just didn't really sound that much like the Chilis. Edit: Mind you, I had the misfortune of seeing them on that tour, so that's probably coloured my judgement a bit.

Here's hoping we don't get Stadium Arcadium 2 instead.

I'd say it was Basschat famous before the truss rod failed for being one of the prettiest instruments we've ever seen on here.

I can swap between my most of my basses without really noticing The one that trips me up is my Washburn Status, and then only if I try to slap. For reasons I've never understood the string tension is much higher than on my other basses and it really throws me out.

Everyday People - Sly and the Family Stone

It's not that there's nothing I want. It's more that if I don't spend that money on getting the bathroom sorted I may very well find myself spending a lot more time with my guitars than I had anticipated next year.

I can't imagine my old school allowing 'pop music' at the Christmas concert back in the 80s/90s, far too low brow. Nice to hear things have moved on.

I had something delivered today while I was out. They left the package with someone 12 doors down the road which is a new record. Still, at least I got it today and it's always nice to meet new people.

At some point as he tours the globe he's probably going to find out that there's a drummer in the US already using the name 'Rikki Styxx' and she's already won the 'who comes up first (and only) in a Google search' competition.

Not an album, but a couple of more obscure Christmas tracks.

Maybe start a thread in the Build Diaries section? There's a few expert builders in there that you don't really see much round other parts of the forum.

I see a lot of aesthetically pleasing basses on here on a pretty much daily basis, but that really is a stand out.

I can't remember who said it first but I'm fairly sure the Forum motto is 'Whoever dies with the most toys wins'.

Is it too soon for this to be considered a 'timeless' classic one hit wonder?

Guilty. (The suggesting that left handers learn to play right handed bit, not the encouraging gay conversation therapy part). I promise I won't do it again.

It's just quite nice and friendly round here. I don't know what the the magic ingredient is that stops a lot of the crap that happens on other forums, but a lot of it has to be down to the people that use it regularly and the laid back but highly effective approach of the moderation team.

I got some pickups from them a few years back. It wasn't overnight delivery but I don't remember waiting too long for them to arrive. No problems or issues, they're a legit retailer. Of course you never really know how good a retailer is until something goes wrong and you find out how good they are at dealing with problems, but I wouldn't hesitate to use them again if they had the best price on something I wanted.

In the 30 odd years I've been playing I don't think there's a single finish, feature or fixture on a bass that I've initially hated the look of that I haven't ended up with GAS for at some point down the line. These days when I see something I don't particularly like my first thought is 'I'll probably want one of those in a couple of years'.

It's only in last year or two that I've started seeing US made G & Ls being regularly stocked by UK retailers. I had a hankering to try an ASAT for years but on the rare occasions I manged to find somewhere that had one it was inevitably located at the other end of the country.

There's a fair few of us that have got or have owned Sires, though I think most of us have/had first generation V7s rather than Ps. I've got a fretless V7 that isn't going anywhere. Generally opinion is overwhelmingly positive, the only negatives that come up are to do with the hardware. The tuners and the bridges, whilst perfectly functional, feel a bit cheap and flimsy and the same could be said of the plastic knobs. That was specifically on the first generation V7s though, I think some of those issues have been addressed on the more recent models. But overall you get a lot of bass for your money.

The Eastwood Warren Ellis tenor guitar has picked up a bit of a cult following over the last few years. Maybe this is Fender grabbing a bit of that action?

You've just reminded me of this one note wonder.

Just about every Ramones tune is made up of two or three simple riffs that repeat in each section of the song.

Roundwounds, mainly clean with lots of treble will get close to early Anthrax and Megadeth bass tones, I suspect that both Dave Ellefson and Frank Bello also tended to lean heavily on the bridge pickup for their sound on the early albums. Ellefson is a pick guy but Bello plays fingerstyle as well. Other bass players of the era such as Cliff Burton tended to go heavy on the overdrive, which, combined with poor production is why it can be difficult to hear what the bass is doing on a lot of early thrash, it just gets lost among the distorted guitars.