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Have a read of what I said without defaulting to petty outrage and trying to put words in my mouth which I didn't say. I did not state that "only the good ones are now beaten up", merely advised caution that there could be more to it looking pristine than meets the eye.

It looks like it's from that era, but bear in mind that the S7 serial numbers were used well past 77 and the S8 serial numbers were used up to the early 80's, so it's probably not strictly from 1978. That battery box gouge would irritate me every single day. As for why it looks in pristine condition? Maybe it's crap and not good to play? It's certainly heavy. Old doesn't necessarily equal good.

Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing

Ozzy Osbourne. The galah has never put a shrimp on the barbie in his life.

That album was such a disappointment. The live band - Jerry, Ralph, Kimberly, Folami, etc are absolutely phenomenal and they barely get a look in, in favour of big names which makes it really sonically disjointed to my ears. This is one of the few tracks where you get Jerry and Ralph, at least, and it's probably the highlight of the album because of it.

Alembic were in cahoots with the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, CSNY, etc, building them custom PA rigs before moving onto instruments with them.

Was Pete Townshend not a force behind Marshall making amps which clipped? As I recall, Jim Marshall was trying to make a clean and loud amp and Pete insisted he wanted it to break up and be loud.

I've never had a subscription to have the satisfaction of cancelling 😪

Metallica lost me the day Load came out. As I listened to the tape, I had to take the inlay out of my pocket to check the lyrics corresponded to what my ears were hearing. That being said, I still find myself picking up the albums as they come out, sometimes sooner, sometimes later. Somewhere in there is still the band which captivated me as a kid with Master of Puppets and AJFA... but that band remains well hidden. I even have Lulu, saw it in a charity shop for a couple of quid and thought "How bad can it be?" The answer is very bad.

When I was playing in a mate's blues band, I used to drop it into the middle of Going Down

I saw her play with Triumph of Death (i.e. Tom Warrior playing Hellhammer) a couple of years ago and she was playing a short-scale white SG bass. She gives it full beans.

Nervosa from Brazil are more my cup of tea than the oul German power metal 😂

If you have to ask that question you'll never zah pap ah dil a doo woo bap a doo

Removing the scratchplate will solve this riddle very, very quickly.

Perhaps we should call the instruments Tonebasses to finally end the confusion? But then, you might end up with a tonebasswood Tonebass in your hands, which is a bit of a mouthful. Hmmm... it's tricky.

Regarding CDbaby, you have to register each song and get a UPC/EAN code for your music as part of a digital distribution setup in order to get payments. If you're registered with them already it will probably be cheaper but you still have to pay to upload and get the songs published to their "digital partners". You need the UPC/EAN codes to qualify for PRS payments. I would say it's worth doing but, financially, it might not be worth doing, if you know what I mean.

I shall return the favour and line a very small part of your pockets 😂

Alabama Thunderpussy. No cats, no meteorology, not even from Alabama.

For sure. I installed a tonebrass nut on a bass recently, along with tonestrap tonelocks.

Yeah, I know, but I'm asking about toneacrylic and tonegraphite now 😉

That was exactly the situation we were in and felt pushed into publishing it on the streaming sites. This one, which we gave permission for as the guy is good about publishing links back, was getting almost 1000 plays per day, initially, which was the trigger behind taking ownership of the music in the streaming world. It had gotten to around 14,000 plays before the licencing kicked in, which you can now see in the description. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9mCQ9JXYYA Youtube can recognise the music published to it and will automatically apply a licence like that into a previously existing video. A lot of the people sharing music are monetising it themselves. They're getting paid for someone listening to your music. If they're "sharing" loads of band's music every day, however, it can start to add up. If you want to... not control it, you can't, but at least establish your ownership, setting up publishing with the likes of CDbaby is the way to do it. We didn't get paid for the first 14,000 or so plays of this and, granted, it's not like I'll be buying a speedboat, but I think the people who wrote and played the music should get something out of it instead of someone just putting up music they didn't have anything to do with. I am not a Spotify customer, they are the very worst thing to happen original music, but you're in a corner as an original artist. If you don't take ownership of your music, someone else will do it for you, sadly.

This is streaming only. Itunes Music or IMusic or whatever their streaming service is called. They're trying to get out of the music purchase game.