Doctor J

Ozfam is a legitimate, registered charity, I'm sure of it.

Let's not beat around the bush, there are down sides to miming but, thinking less emotionally about it, your hands a free to do all kinds of other fun stuff and you don't have the pressure of hitting a bum note. If, say, you were attacked by a rabid bat during a song, you're the guy who's got two free hands to swoosh the bugger away. The other lads are going to hospital for a series of painful injections. Advantage: you.

Here are my two former ones. Lovely basses, just not right for me

Lovely.

If your aim is to be rich and famous, your music is likely to be shite anyway. If you want to be a great musician or play great music, you're probably focussing on your music and technique, not drumming up Insta followers.

Is the blonde EB4 up there not fretless too?

What's your band up to?

Yes, I read it and lots of others too. I'd say Bob Daisley, especially, and Randy Rhoads played a big part in making him famous too, but it wasn't until the MTV show that he became Prince of Darkness™, loveable buffoon and household name. There are lots of people they exploited, aside from Ozzy's alcoholism, to build that empire, lots of books too which show the other side of the story and fill in much of what was left out of Ozzy's quite selective book 🙂

Arguable in what way, given he was famous before they ever met?

They edited out "... if he knows what's good for him!"

Ozzy struggled badly, vocally, during the last Sabbath tour, as the DVD clearly shows. He's been through multiple serious illnesses and injuries in the meantime, couldn't even perform with his own band. I wouldn't want to see him in his current state for free, never mind pay a fortune to see him get wheeled on stage for a brief cameo amidst an array of guest singers. Let's not forget that, according to the band themselves, Bill wasn't capable of holding a tune together when they were recording 13, 13 years ago. He's not going to have gotten any better in the meantime. This is going to be Iommi, Butler and Bordin, for the most part, with Ozzy and Bill rolled onstage for a brief appearance at the end. Sabbath are one of my all-time favourite bands, seeing them in this state will be depressing and morbid.

You should try the first Megadeth album, they heavied up These Boots 40 years ago.

If you feel embarrassed about the music you like, the music ain't the problem. Why would you feel you need to keep something like that a secret?

Occasionally, I used to stand-in for a mate's blues/rock cover band when they were without a bassist or drummer. On one such occasion, they were playing at a bar which had recently re-opened after lengthy and extensive refurbishment, a place trying to rebuild a client base. Most of the set was to one disinterested oul fella. He left, after a while, leaving only the barman. Then he disappeared too, and we played on to an empty room. The drummer decided he needed to pee quite badly, so went off to find the loo which, as it turned out, was two floors up and badly signposted. We three stood there for quite a while like absolute dopes, on a stage in an otherwise empty room, in total silence. When he eventually came back, the barman returned too, perhaps he had asked him for directions, so we started another song, at which point my old Peavey MKII let out a mournful wail and died which, mercifully, signalled the end of the evening.

How old are the strings?

Nice. I've had a couple of EB4s over the years and liked them a lot but the extended and curved pickup ends just don't make my thumb happy so ended up moving them on. I'm happiest on a 38mm nut too.

Had a singer storm off stage and leave the band halfway through a gig. We carried on, sadly, despite the cold hand of severe acid-tinged paranoia grabbing hard. Had a guitarist too heavily sedated to feel his hands or his feet, play a gig limply slumped over on a stool. Same guitarist, frustrated by his guitar cutting in and out, once flung his guitar hard onto the stage in frustration, then fired it into the crowd. He then realised it was one of only two guitars he owned so dived into the crowd to try to retrieve it. As support, had a singer elbow the singer from the headline band hard in the throat when the guy came on to try and bail us out after an ill-concieved gong solo wasn't the crowd pleaser we hoped it might be. Security were very clear the show was over very quickly that time. We once learned the hard way that mixing accordion and disco doesn't make for a happy crowd. I once slipped in water on the stage and crashed into the amp, a hefty Trace 4x10 combo perched atop a tea chest, and lay sprawled underneath as it teetered back and forth deciding whether or not to fall forward and crush me. Never had a drummer perish but did know one who hid in his shed for two weeks while pretending to be away on holiday.

She sounded like Nelson Muntz, sadly. I thought Joan Jett was spot on until she forgot the words. St. vincent was struggling with time, rather than pitch, oddly. Grohl Jr was superb, it must be said. Nice to hear those guys playing those songs again. The show will make you feel old, however. Some of these performers are really showing their age.

A reason. I've been buying music since I was a kid, I've no need to rent it again from those greedy barstwards.

Maybe it's just me but it looks wider than 38mm nut and the curves at the bottom of the headstock aren't quite as pronounced as the SR? It's modded, whatever it is 😂

I'd say it's a Fernandes FRB with either a prototype or reshaped headstock. The headstock is skinnier than a Soundgear.

Pat Badger isn't a name, it's an instruction for those who live on the razor's edge.

I had heard it a lot before I ever heard it from him, it's not as if it was rare before he adopted it too.

Well, I'm just repeating what he said when the bass was released. He said it's a P pickup under the one cover, so...

Yup.