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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.

'Real' Les Paul basses seem to have a bit of a mixed reputation. There's a decent chance that your Chinese one might be a better player than some runs of the actual Gibsons.

Is he tiny or is that bass massive?

I try. Sometimes it's just a reflex carried over from playing guitar. I've even found myself doing bends on fretless, where it's truly a pointless exercise. I can manage a semitone bend on the bass without thinking about it. I can do the full tone or more if I concentrate and significantly increase my left hand grip on the neck, but then it tends to bugger up the next section because generally I play with a light touch and the change in fretting pressure upsets the flow. I'm always quite impressed when I see a bass player casusally push the G almost all the way across the fretboard, even with maximum effort I can't get the string much further than halfway across the board without it pinging back from under my fingers.

I had massive gas for one of these a while back. There's something about the full body/headless aesthetic on a guitar that just really works for me.

It's quite striking reading this thread that people seem fine with yet another iteration of Mac whereas in another thread the latest version of Yes was referred to as a tribute band. Personally I know nothing about either band, The only Mac stuff I've ever really liked is the Peter Green era stuff, which, as far as I know, was about 20 line up changes ago.

I saw an Anderton's 'all about the bass' video recently where the pick up cover/surround on a Ric was described as the 'talent stopper'. I think the same term could be applied to the pup cover on a p bass or jazz. There's a good reason pretty much everyone used to take them off and Fender eventually stopped putting them on most models.

Have a word with @skankdelvar. He's been known to frequent the odd abandoned warehouse, mainly for luring purposes...

OK, maybe the trend is not that modern...

Nothing subtle about this one from 1935.

On a more serious note there is a trend in modern music where an upcoming swear word is telegraphed by the rhyming structure of the lyrics but the word itself is partially obscured, so for example you only hear the initial 'f'. If you listen to Radio 1 for any amount of time you'll hear a few of them. I always wonder what the point is. Much like writing s**t. People just automatically fill in the blanks for themselves. Hence the unfortunate misunderstanding at my f**k music night. I'll never forget the disapointment on their faces as I launched into 'This Land is Your Land'.

'Inappropriate profanity'? Sounds like an oxymoron to me. ☺

I wouldn't worry about it. The hair splitting definitions of the various subgenres of metal has become truly ludicrous in recent years. No one agrees on which bands fall in to which categories anyway.