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You lucky git.

I don't know what it is, but I want to stamp on it.

Satellites would have have been a good album from anyone who's previous effort hadn't been so exceptional, as it was I felt incredibly disappointed the first time I heard it. I tried to let it grow on me, but despite a couple of brilliant moments it never did. I will check out Wonderland on your recommendation though.

Absolutely.

I've always thought of 'August' as one of those rare perfect albums. There's not a weak song on it. It was impossible to follow up of course and in my opinion none of Counting Crow's subsequent recordings came close.

That sounds like something worth hearing at least once. To be fair it's a role I know nothing about but I'm guessing that all orchestral triangle players are skilled in other percussion type instruments which they use in that orchestra?

Did he drop it down a flight of concrete steps?

Yep 70s aesthetics combined with top end electrics and build quality. If I was speccing a custom bass it would be just about identical to one of these.

I was browsing Bass Direct earlier and came across this. http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Atelier_Z.html If I had a spare £2000 my order would already be in.

Above and beyond the call of duty. Every string I've ever broken has been entirely down to my own ham fistedness. Apart from that one time the the E broke whilst the bass was leaning against the wall. I think it had probably just had enough of my abuse and decided it wanted out.

He's a better player than I'll ever be, but I'll never like his ripped speaker tone.

From a bass playing perspective that's the easiest bit. Although in my first band when I was about 16 that's exactly what we did. Our lead guitarist could barely handle the intro, he couldn't get close to the main solo.

The intro bit sounds great but isn't that difficult, it's probably the only slightly fiddly bit that you need to master for the song to sound right. There's a lot of variation in the fills on the verses and choruses, if I had to learn it in a hurry I think those are the bits I'd simplify. Once the song key changes for the main guitar solo and end bit it's really just root notes. There are a lot of tutorials on Youtube, the frilly bits sound great but there's nothing that technically difficult in there, you may well find that you can actually master the whole song as played on the original recording in a couple of hours.

I really like the looks and spec of these Atelier Jazzes.

Isn't the SCR6 Ibanez's take on a Fender bass vi style guitar? I think you'll struggle to find a commercially produced 4 string with string spacing that narrow, taking 2 strings off might be your only option without commissioning a custom build.

If I was there (which I definitely won't be) I'd also be going to see The Wombats, a trio of cheeky Liverpudlians who have enthusiastically joined the UK 80s Indie/New Romantic revival.

Flaming Lips are an absolutely awesome live band. They do a modern take on psychedelic rock and always put on a fantastic show which quite often involves getting fans on stage to participate. This is what they look like live. On something completely unrelated, the other week my pub quiz team were asked the question 'Which American Great Lakes city is known as The City of Festivals'? Your posts are the only reason we got that one right. Cheers mate.

Possibly Alec John Such had the non musical but vital role of beating Jon Bonjovi senseless every time he tried to record one of his boring, whiney ballads? Once he left the monster was given free reign. Aerosmith could have seriously benefitted from his merciless editorial skills during the 90s. They might still be remembered as a decent hard rock band.

I looked into it a few months ago. There used to be a company that sold the plate, it may will have been Wilkes, but I couldn't find anyone currently selling a similar item. It might be worth PMing a couple of the clever chaps on the Build Diaries thread for ideas on where or how to get something like this made. There's a few guys with more than decent engineering/machining skills hanging about there.

Well that's reignited my periodic Mockingbird gas. The tone on that clip isn't really my thing, but they just look so cool. Edit : Although having just listened through a decent speaker the tone of both basses is actually pretty awesome. Note to self :Never make judgements based on the sound of anything heard soley through tablet speakers.

I've not noticed people behaving any worse, then again most of the gigs I've been to in the last few years the average audience age has probably been mid 40s.

I know what you mean and they managed live without a third guitarist for many years but having one does mean that they can now replicate the many parts on the records where they have two guitars playing lead in harmony over a third guitar playing rhythm when they play live,

That's how I pronounce it, and probably always will. Mind you, I refuse to say Eyebanez or Nikee despite knowing that those are the correct pronunciations.

Slightly OT but did anyone ever get a definitive answer on correct pronunciation of 'Warwick' as in Warwick basses? I've tried to find out before, but even Germans can't seem to agree on whether it's 'Var vick' ,'War wick', 'Bar bick' or some combination of the aforementioned.

Most of us can't even pronounce it, let alone spell it.