Hellzero

Mineral oil mixed with cement, then your fingerboard becomes as hard as concrete. 🤔

I always refer to the Daphne Blue, Foam Green, Sonic Blue, Surf Green, Shell Pink, ... as toilet seat colours... And I love them. I know, I know.

I think that Frosted Martian Sperm was instantly discarded by the R&D. I'll get my coat.

Naturally seasoning wood for lutherie work (what is called tonewood, ... I know) is way slower than you might think as it's 1 millimetre per year, so expect to wait 40 to 45 years before using your beech, but as it's already rotting it would be better to kiln dry it and then impregnate it, like @skelf is doing, to stop the destructive process. Nice piece, that said, and these spalted woods are just terrible fire wood as they hardly heat.

Motley Crue is certainly not a good example... That said, concerning U2 one of my close friend is more than a huge fan and he said that they decided from the start that they would divide the royalties in 4 equal parts whatever happens as long as they play together. That's the very nice part of the story.

Unlined sixer fretless player here, but I've always loved the challenges and playing in the dusty end has become an habit, just like playing chords anywhere on the neck. There's no secret : practice (close to 40 years now). That said I would not play fast chords changes on my fretless the way bebop guitarists do, of course. I've also played a Glissentar for some time and odd fretless short scale instruments too : that helps getting your intonation right. If you want to play chords on fretless, listen and practice some Alain Caron : he is a master at it. Maybe try this : https://isyourteacher.com/bass/teachers/alain-caron/

In hot summer : it's funk !

Isn't it a condo in the US ? Although it should be a flat used as an apartment with a room mate living in another room paying a part of the rent or being an associate in a kind of personal real estate.

I don't agree at all as having lefties, fivers, sixers or fretlesses should be normal in a shop in 2021, not by quantity, but quality. The problem is simply the shop owner(s) as I explained earlier (if you really read the threads, you should have seen it) who only sells what makes huge profits, just like 50 years. If they just understood what their customers want, they would be very rich, but as they just wait and moan, it will never happen. We have here in the village a shop selling only crap at delirious prices. I told them many times that they should have real instruments at decent prices instead and that people have access to the Internet to compare these prices, but they still act like 50 years ago : huge profits only !

Was it their Best Of ?

This is the good point for me with stores or even the Internet as I play six strings basses, which are mainly fretless... So absolutely nothing to catch my eye. That said, it's also the job of the store to sell things instead of sitting and moaning. If they were demonstrating and explaining the pros and cons of say fivers and fretlesses, they would certainly sell some. But most of these shops are run by people still thinking like 50 years ago. And it's exactly the same everywhere where things are sold. The worst sellers are those pretending it's their job : they are unable to know what would suit you as they don't give a sh*t about what you're interesting in and never ask you a single question, but keep enumerating specifications that are absolutely useless for you as it's not what you need and they keep insisting for hours without listening to you, the most important person of the moment, the potential buyer !

Punk rock died in 1976. Spread the information.

Nice work. Was there a discount on screws back in the day ? 😉

And you are right Tony.

Glad that you bought it and that it's fully playable or even better. 👌

That's what the guys dressed in white have been saying while they were trying to put me that shirt attached in the back. Never read it ? Still time, you know ! Hush, the men in white are coming back.

Or on the Dance Floor, literally.

I love the design and the ideas behind. I hate the look.

Ask Beethoven.

Did you watch it ? Have you so much time to lose ?

It depends of your signal chain, if like the guy (producer) in the guitar video posted way earlier, you put loads of distortion or tons of effects, you won't hear any difference between the crappiest instrument and the best ever made. It's as simple as that. The video started well with clean sounds for both guitars that were totally different sounding and then he started adding massive distortion...

Yep, in Brussels on the 27th of October 1984 when they played at Forest National for the Unforgettable Fire Tour, the nearby seismograph in Uccle recorded the event as a real seismic alert. They were playing really really really loud, way louder than any metal band that has played there before and after, as even the neighbourhood was a bit afraid of the sound waves shaking everything in their houses.

Sounds really à la Foo Fighters, very well done. Maybe I'm too old, but I can't hear anything punk in there, it's more on the pop side (no offense intented as I love good pop music). That said, I understand why people like it, it's a really catchy tune. Congratulations, the plays are more than deserved. PS : Don't spend everything on ... sex and drugs and rock'n'roll attitude. 😉