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My brother in law has a bog standard Harley Benton acoustic bass which is a lot more fun to play than it should be for £130 One of these I think https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_hbb30nt_akustikbass.htm

Times are tough financially for a lot of people. If I owned a 6k bass it would be the first thing to go if I needed quick cash. Don't get me wrong, it's great to have really nice stuff, but a high end bass can be adequately replaced with something that costs a fraction of the price and the rest of the money can go to tackling whatever emergency has cropped up.

I saw that show at the NEC in Birmingham. My favourites of the night were predictably Megadeth who were probably my favourite band at that point, but also Suicidal Tendencies. I went out and got the whole ST back catalogue after that. Slayer had technical difficulties that night, I think it was probably to do with the onstage sound because they sounded OK to me in the audience. The whole set roadies kept running on stage to check Jeff Hanneman's guitar or give him a different guitar and you could see him getting more and more frustrated until eventually he threw a guitar on the ground out of pure anger. All in all they were still pretty good and the whole thing is still one of the best gigs I've seen though.

My 2 favourites of the 'Big 4' were Megadeth and Anthrax. They were sort of opposites in that Megadeth were complex whereas Anthrax were more like a punch in the face, almost like a punk band but with an opera singer on lead vocals. I only saw them live once, on that Maiden tour and they were absolutely superb. I think career wise they took a wong turn when Belladonna left and they went grunge on 'The Sound of White Noise' even though I actually really liked that album. They alienated the metal fans and I'm not sure they picked up many new ones from the alternative/grunge scene because they already had a huge reputation as one of the 'Big Four' thrash bands. I stopped listening to metal not long after that but while occaisionally I'd hear people talk about Metallica, Megadeth and Slayer I didn't hear much about Anthrax after that album.

I have now reached the point where if I get anything else it will start getting in the way. Although there's a sort of mop/broom sized cupboard in the kitchen that may have potential if I can sell the idea to other family members.

If I got a gig tomorrow I'd take my Epiphone Embassy and the Squier Bass VI and leave the Precision Deluxe at home I'm sure my preferences will rotate through my small herd as they always have but the moment those are the 2 basses I'm enjoying the most. Congratulations to the Op for finding at great bass at a great price

You could just ask for donations. Suzie Quattro recently donated one her basses to a local museum. Although really it was more of a swap because she wanted the pink paisley one she'd previously given them back. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-67949095.amp

Not sure many mùseums have 8 million quid. A lot of the priceless stuff in art galleries and museums was acquired many years ago or has been gifted on permanent loan by the actual owners. I doubt any of them could afford a single Van Gogh or Constable at todays prices.

I didn't watch the whole thing but from the bits I did I wouldn't be at all suprised if this has set some sort of record for a guitar auction.

A Reverend guitar which, assuming they didn't specially hand built it for Mr Knopfler, would go for maybe £500 on Reverb just went for £27k.

That auctioneer may be the most charismatic person I've even seen in my life Essentially all she's doing is reciting numbers but I'm absolutely mesmerised.

I suppose if you've got a few very rich superfans bidding against each other the sky's the limit.

Anthrax always seemed like nice young men.

That's more the sort of thing I was thinking of. While I was looking for a clip to support my earlier 'context' comment I found this one of a gig I was actually at. I can totally see how these days that could look like a Nazi rally. Looking back we danced like electrocuted Nazis. I'm frankly astonished I had the energy. (That's not to detract from the entirely valid point and subsequent evidence you made earlier though).

Fair enough.

I'd need to see those pictures in context. It was normal back in the 80s and 90s for metal fans to 'airpunch' enmasse during a gig and it was normal for the bands to do it back. In hindsight I can see how that would look like a Nazi rally, all I can say is that I never heard those sentiments being openly expressed by a metal band on stage during that period . I can't say that nobody in the crowds or on those stages believed that nonesense, but none of it was ever obvious to me. I remember G&Rs 'One in a million' being incredibly controversial back in the day for it's use of the N word in the most negative possible way but, while I'm sure there were others that weren't as mainstream that were openly racist, that's the only recorded bit of metal racism I remember from the whole era.

Trujillo is a phenomenal player, one of those guys who can and has played any genre at the absolute top level. Outside of Metallica he's jazzy, he's done punk/hardcore and he can be funky as hell I've been a fan since I first heard and saw him with Suicidal Tendencies in the 1980s. I've said it before I don't begrudge him the paycheck but, creatively, he's wasted in Metallica.

I did the modding thing just the once a few years ago on a Squier VM 70 I'd acquired just because I was interested in having a go. I was happy with the results but for the overall cost of the project I certainly could have bought a new Mim Fender.

I have noticed especially on US guitar forums that there seems to be an expectation from a suprising number of people buying brand new guitars that they'll want to modify it in someway, even models I would regard as high end intruments like US Fenders and Gibsons. I think Lobster is aiming at that mindset.

I think in many respects Newstead was the whipping boy of the band, the And Justice debacle aside I remember reading stories about how the other band members had 'hazed' him inwhat seems to have been a fairly brutal manner on his first tour with them. Hetfield in particular seems to have deliberately prevented Newstead from having as much musical input as he wanted whilst also trying to block him from expressing his creative side in another project. I think when he left the band almost imploded because, Hetfield who seems to have been a thoroughly unpleasant character for the first 20 years or so of Metallicas career started directing his destructive and controlling behaviour at the remaining band members and they lacked Newsteads strength of character

I saw a Lee Andertons clip a while back where he was talking about the various companies that he's involved with. Pretty sure he said East Coast was a joint enterprise with at least one other UK music retailer aimed at supplying the super cheap end of the market. On a different subject I suspect there's factories in the far east churning out tons of roasted maple. In a few years it's gone from being a relative rarity on higher end guitars to a standard feature at every price point.

Cheers for the heads up.

I was interested in these as a cheapish possibility to try out a Stingray style bass but those controls and the J pickup are a deal breaker for me I only use my V7 fretless in passive because I'm not keen on the preamp, there's just too much going on for me personally to quickly dial in a tone and start playing. The Sireray looks like it would give me the same issue.

I came within a whisker of buying the baritone guitar version of this a few weeks ago. The only thing that stopped me was the lack of a trem, which which is something I'd like for the surf type music I want to use a baritone for. I may well get a Long Horn bass at some point just because they look so cool.

No pics unfortunately but I had a black .Hondo strat in the 90s that I covered with gold polkadot stickers then put various band stickers on top of those. In my romantic memory it looked proper grunge, in my realistic memory I don't think I'd want to touch it with a barge pole if I saw it now. Although, to contradict myself, I'd still rather have that guitar that I decorated in the trend of those times than a modern relic.