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Steve Harris is about the only one I'd be confident of getting right in a blindfold test.

He's taken a bass and amp with him. The wildlife is not only bothered, it's absolutely traumatised. The locals are reporting deer walking around with rabbits stuffed in their ears.

That was just a bit weird. If he's seriously trying to stop other guitar manufacturers making Gibson shaped guitars then he's about 6 or 7 decades too late.

Playing a six requires really good technique. I play fours with my thumb over the top edge of neck and I use that thumb to mute the lower 2 strings when required. You can't really get away with that on a five, let alone a six. Because of the width of the neck it really needs the classical thumb-on-the-centre-of-the-back-of-neck fretting hand position. Muting strings to stop sympathetic resonance is more difficult. It won't stop me getting one at some point, but I know it's going to be a bit of a challenge.

Reminds me of a 15 year old me, bashing the crap out of my Axe bass through no name 30 watt amp in a vain effort to be heard alongside a guitarist going through a 50 watt Marshall. I got through a lot of strings. I initially switched to finger style for mainly economic reasons.

Unbelievable by EMF. The track has a sample running through it that repeats 'Whoah! What the F*ck' throughout the song. For the avoidance of doubt the wording of the sample was included with the lyric sheet that came with the CD. The unedited song received widespread nationwide airplay. Apparently no one noticed the naughty language.

I'm not sure where this bass fits in the timeline but the PRS bird inlays started out as a feature on one of PRS' top of the line guitar models before eventually expanding to most of the rest of the range over the years.

I'd guess Mr Miller's visit is connected to Andertons position as the UK's biggest Sire dealership. I'd be surprised if Marcus isn't playing a Sire for most of the event and I'd imagine there may be a few Sire's available for the atendees to check out as well.

If he shrugs his shoulders he's going to be singing soprano for the rest of the night.

After years of never really thinking about compression I've started putting a compressor at the front of my chain (or just after the amp sim if I'm using one) on pretty much all my Helix Stomp patches. It just seems to give me a fatter tone and evens out the volume of whatever line I'm playing, so that when I record something and listen back there are no rogue loud notes.

Radio 1 has been playing the àrse out of this which has now grown on me to the point where I've spent the morning listening to various other Sam Fender tracks. He doesn't have an album out yet, but there's a few bits and pieces on Amazon, which, considering I don't really listen to guitar music much these days, I found myself thoroughly enjoying. Maybe Rock isn't dead after all...

Nice looking bass. I've seen the Stu Hamm signature Urge with the P pickup between the two Js before, but I didn't realise there were other versions.

I got my first fretless about 18 months ago. At first I was doing a lot of àrsing about with slides and vibrato, which is a lot of fun, but what really led me to me getting to grips with the whole intonation thing and automatically fretting the board in the right places was just playing the same lines that I play on a fretted.

You might be able to pick up a used Ditto or Boss RC1 for around £50 but , based on the specs, I can't see much wrong with @Teebs recommendation above. For me the most essential feature on any looper is the ability to delete the layers you còck up whilst building up the track . The Donner seems to have that so as long as it's not horribly noisy it looks like an absolute bargain.

It depends what he means by 'truly live'. I agree to the point that I don't want to see a band who are basically just miming, but I have no problem with those who incorparate samples or additional backing tracks into their show. I was a big fan of Cater USM in the 90s and before they expanded the duo to include other musicians about 70% of their live show was backing tracks and samples with only the guitars and vocals truly being live. They still put on a hell of a show. I suspect another one of my favourite live acts , Nine Inch Nails, despite a stage full of musicians, have also always incorporated a fair amount of pre recorded samples into their set. I see it as just another tool in the kit really. On the other hand I read an interview with Calvin Harris a while back and from what I could tell on the tour he was talking about he basically just pressed play on his laptop then spent the gig miming and waving from behind his turntables. For me that is just taking the pìss out of the punters.

I've got no idea. I've heard the term applied to a lot of stuff, ranging from Napalm Death to George Michael.

I think we need to decide on a comprehensive definition of 'rock music' before we declare whether or not it's truly dropped of it's perch.

Not only is The Man with the Golden Gun by far the funkiest Bond song, I believe it's also the only one that includes key plot elements in the lyrics. If you listen to the opening song, you pretty much know all you need to know about the villainous Scaramanga's backstory before the film even properly starts.

Zoom B1 multi FX. Will cost less than most stand alone pedals. As well as a shedload of built it in effects it has a tuner, drum samples and a 30 second looper and also works as a headphone amp for silent practice. Edit:should have read the thread, Al Krow beat me to it. It really is a great piece of kit though. If I ran a music shop I'd be bundling up the beginner basses with a B1 instead of the inevitably crappy practice amp.

I liked the look of them but it was silly money for passive P and PJ basses. There's no shortage of well made basses out there that do the same thing for half of what Music Man were charging for these two models.

A few years ago after 20 odd years I found me myself completely bored with bass and stuck in a deep rut. So I decided to finally learn how to slap properly (afer years of bluffing and never quite getting it right) to see if that would give me some new aspect to work at and sort of inspiration/enjoyment back. It did. I watched and worked through a whole lot of YouTube tutorials but it was this particular series I found by far the most useful. Top Tip: It's all in the ghost notes.

In the future people will have a less romantic, more pragmatic view of vintage instruments.... Knackered old 1960 Precision Requires complete refinish, new wiring and pots, new pickups and a refret. Would make good project.

You realise that the cat now legally owns the bass?

Glastonbury is so huge these days, with so many stages and other things happening that the line up on the two main stages is only a fraction of what's going on. For what it's worth I reckon Stormzy will get a far bigger crowd for his Pyramid headline set than some of the more established headliners in recent years.

I thought it was either a fretless with a touch of chorus or some sort of synth/sequencer thingie. You can get some of the way towards that sound with a chorus pedal and maybe some reverb but a fretted bass will never be able to produce the slides and vibrato that can be got from a fretless.