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When Sting performs with Shaggy do they just stick to material from the album they did together or do songs like 'Don't stand so Close to Me' and 'Fields of Gold' get a dance hall rap section added? Does Sting get a verse on 'Mr Boombastic'?

He'll have to get it extracted first.

At least the ads I'm getting now are mostly vaguely music related. Before I was constantly being invited to sign up to faith based dating agencies.

Have you used the 'won it in the annual Basschat charity raffle' excuse yet? We could actually start a fake thread to 'prove' that such events are a regular occurrence for frequenters of these forums. Maybe have a word with one of the mods to see if it would be possible to back date it....

I seem to recall that following certain shenanigans on an early US tour the Kinks actually got banned from touring in the US for most of the sixties which probably didn't do much to increase their US fan base.

Another victim of the great avatar massacre of 2019. No idea why it happened but it's definitely connected to the ongoing work on the site. I redid mine yesterday. I tried to make one identical to the old one and failed so I might go for something completely different in the next few days. I doubt I'll be the only one. Exciting times ahead.

Not counting Telecaster, Les Paul and archtop style basses there have been two single cut bass designs that I've found myself actually liking the look of. Both of them have been built by AndyJr.

I don't know about the albums but I saw them live a couple of times in the early 90s and he was swapping between 4 and 5 string Warwicks. He might have used a different bass at some point during the sets but if he did it could only have been for a couple of songs.

Ah, sorry. My power supply is plugged into a multi plug power socket which i turn on and off at the wall. I'm not sure I've ever touched it while the Stomp was on.

When I was researching the Stomp I came across some information from someone from Line 6 on their community forum. Basically they said that because of the way the tech inside the Stomp works that it will generate heat and get warm and not to worry about it. I'm guessing the same is true for the HX. As long as it's not so hot that it's uncomfortable to touch I reckon it'll be fine.

It's a bit odd that they specify 'Only available as a right handed four string'. For that kind of money I'm assuming that the instrument is almost entirely hand crafted starting out from the blocks of wood. I don't see why making a left hander would present any kind of problem in the manufacturing process.

I'm pretty sure someone on here had one of his actual basses, I can't remember who it was though or whether it was a signature model or one of his other Warwicks.

+5 Might be a bit flamboyant but in my head I'm picturing it with a set of gold strings.

This is going to sound like a bit of a paradox, but as the finger strength improves on the fretting hand you'll probably develop a lighter, cleaner touch which will cut out a lot of it. You'll also probably start playing lines across all the strings instead of moving your hand up and down the neck on one or two strings. You might want to look into the 'one finger per fret system' but have a look at this as well.

Just to add, if you listen to the isolated basslines from a lot of famous recordings by some very talented bass players you can hear finger noise. If you listen to the whole mix there's no sign of it.

Sounds like it could be 'finger noise'. That happens when you move your fretting hand up or down the neck whilst maintaining contact with a string with your fretting hand/fingers , if that makes any sense. To be honest I don't think it's something that someone who's just starting out really needs to worry about too much. As your technique improves you'll almost certainly find it happening less and less. It's also not something that an audience is ever really going to hear when you play with other musicians. If it really bothers you you could try buying a set of flatwound strings as they're much smoother and produce far less noise than the roundwounds your bass almost certainly came fitted with, but it will change the overall tone of your bass in a noticeable way. Not necessarily in a bad way though. A lot of people prefer the sound of flats.

Nice sleuthing. I think you've got it.

Anyone got any info on Kenet Hit? I've tried to look him up but apparently his crimes were so monstrous that, in a modern day damnatio memoriae, all mention of him has been erased from the internet.

Julio Iglasias was 'neofacism', Tina Turner was 'sex'. I'm starting wonder if they came up with the reasons by throwing some sort of multi faceted dice.

I wonder what the official difference between 'eroticism' and 'sex'was? On second thoughts I'm not sure I want to know the answer.

The Village People being banned for 'violence' made me laugh.

I've had one since I was 18. I don't know about the pickups. The ones on mine have the Status logo embossed on them but I don't know if they were actually made by Status or manufactured under license by Washburn. The active circuit is not your usual 2 or 3 band EQ The controls on the bass are volume, pan and a single tone control. The tone control works pretty much like a passive one except I think there's some sort of treble boost so that when it's on full the bass is almost painfully treblely. It's the only bass on which my standard setting is to turn the tone control down.

That's the beauty of Basschat. No matter how much you've spent or how much gear you own there's always someone who's spent more and owns more gear.

Boney M and Milli Vanili were both created and managed by the same guy, Frank Farrian. Most of the 'official' line up of Boney M never appeared on the recordings which used session performers and Farrian himself to complete the vocal tracks. This was not a secret nor particularly unusual for disco 'bands' who were often just the public face of tracks performed by various session musicians and the public at the time didn't care. Fast forwards a few years and Farrian put together Milli Vanilli, based on a similar principle of being the public face of music recorded by other people. This time all hell broke loose, which must have come as bit of shock to Frank after he'd done pretty much exactly the same thing before for years and nobody gave a rats backside.

I suspect that with the number of guitar/bass players generally in decline and guitar based music becoming less popular that the number of people interested in buying vintage/collectable instruments will eventually start to gradually decline as will their value. Instruments associated with specific historically important artists like Hendrix or the Beatles will probably always be desirable, but my guess is that the value of things like pre CBS Fenders is probably going to peak at some point in the next 20 years then begin to fall as the generations for whom such objects hold the most cultural significance diminish.