Doctor J

We are encouraged to Buy More once we escape the womb and are bombarded with the message until we expire, not just in online communities. This is how the wheels of our societies keep turning. I can recall, more than once, suggesting someone should have a think about what it is they really want when someone posts one of those baffling "Tell me what I should buy" threads. If you don't know what it is you want, keep the cash in your pocket.

Vicarious is interesting without being terrifyingly complex.

Jimmy Chamberlin. If Corgan was there, too, with the Marshalls cranked to 11, that would be ok.

They've gone so commercial, I much preferred the demo.

Wow, talk about 8 words making me want to check out an album 😂

***flashback*** I used to have Trouble - s/t and Masters Of Reality's debut on either side of a C90 back in the day, which was never far from my walkman, what a tape 😂 ***flashback***

My favourite album of all time, that one. Flawless. It and Manic Frustration were recently reissued, at long last. If you haven't heard it, do yourself a massive favour... https://troubleofficial.bandcamp.com/album/trouble

Whatever they end up being, they're in here. The ESP 400 Series Jazz is one, I suppose... https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/444938-for-all-the-basses-i-have-loved/?do=findComment&comment=4360298

I'd love to know where you're finding them, any ones I see are in the 600+ club.

My first ever gig was Megadeth supported by Sanctuary in 1988. Up until he played an extended intro to These Boots... I had never even considered playing an instrument but, right then, I knew I need to be a bass player. The silver PJ with sharkfins and binding is the one for me, I still love that bass. The new ones with the EMG soapbars, oddly enough, do nothing for me.

Desertfest was the major gig casualty of last year for me. I'm still fighting Ryanair to get a refund for my cancelled flights 😂

How many lovely Charvels do you have now?

I love stoner, doom and all things Sabbath influenced. I'm currently (as in right this very minute) writing and recording new stuff with a guy I was in a doom band with in the mid-90's. We could never find a singer at the time, nobody wanted to play doom, so we feel like we have unfinished business to address. Our premise is to be 30 years slower and sludgier than we were back then. Here's the last thing I did, with the singer of another former band - not the one from the 90's. http://witheredfist.bandcamp.com

The first wound always hurts but now it's unique. Once it plays ok, that's all that matters.

Aside from using chrome screws for the bridge and pickups, this is quite delicious

I like that. It's very much doing its own thing.

Every year is the year of The Ox. Be lucky 😎

I'll do it again with headphones on next time.

Don't feel too bad about it. I also play drums and beat alignment was my worst too. When recording drums, I really struggle to focus on high-pitched beep click tracks. I need a lower register instrument to focus on and usually record a very rhythmic guitar track and use that as my click. I just don't naturally register listening to high pitched instruments and I felt this test had the same issues for me.

It's common enough, especially on non-Fender clone Japanese basses, in my experience. L-R Godlyke, Ibanez, Bacchus The Ibanez is a 91 SB900 but my two 89 SRs have three piece necks too, though the black paint stops one seeing it 😁 Ibanez were doing it a long time before that, however.

I'd rather have no music than be subjected to music everywhere I go, be it in pubs, shops, etc. and I would say "being assaulted by it" is fair enough. I was in the office this week for the first time in months and in the canteen they're now pumping in some brain-melting radio station. Being forced to hear to music agitates me, even moreso when it's killing the potential of a conversation with someone. Silence is ok too. We shouldn't be trying to eradicate it. Anyway, back on topic, Cliff made a bigger impact in three and a half years than most ever do in their lives. A great man and a great player.

From Alembic's site And if you really enjoy cans of worms... http://www.alembic.com/info/wood_neck.html 😁

Any time you want to take a blind test, just let me know 😉 There are multuple trains of thought - that it's for CNC alignment, that it's for different painting jigs or that it's for easily identifying body models in a factory where several variations of the same model are made side-by-side. I'd go with CNC alignment, personally. As above. Note the one in the neck pocket, not the best place for a switch.

Nice. My 91 SS1 has the quick release back plate so they definitely had been out for quite a while, though mine is right-handed. It's interesting that it has the JAN1 too, I thought the JAN2 (never saw one which wasn't broken by the way 😂) was standard from the mid 90's at least. Could yours be some kind of retro spec edition instead of standard for the time?

The standard contemporary Fender body has this rather appalling route under the scratchplate. With this, you really just need a modified scratchplate as there is enough wood missing to comfortably drop a 51 pickup in there in the correct position. https://www.muziker.ie/fender-jazz-bass-body-vintage-bridge-brown-sunburst?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIu6a65uLe7gIVo-jtCh06nQ3JEAQYASABEgItufD_BwE Truth be told, though, there's not a huge difference between the 51 single coil and the regular Jazz single coil pickup. Another option would be to get a Jazz sized 4-pole neck pickup made. There are enough custom pickup makers out there who could make a 4 pole 51 spec pickup which fits in to a standard Jazz sized cover.