Doctor J

Sleep in the Button Factory in Dublin, around 2012ish. Stupidly loud. I had good ear plugs and, if I hadn't, I would have left. There's rock 'n' roll level and then there's permanent hearing loss level and Sleep were wafting in the latter. I was amazed by how many people were there without hearing protection.

One's a P, one's a J, they're not the same size. The location of the bridge can be somewhate inconsistent too (think why they needed long G screws). The only accurate measurement is from a fixed point in relation to the scale of the instrument and they are the frets and the nut. The other witness point, the bridge saddle, is an adjustable, movable part.

I've never gone to a gig expecting to be disappointed. It's sneaky. It always takes me by surprise.

It'd be more accurate if it were aligned with a fret (look at the 12th fret on each bass there) but it's pretty much what I was thinking was the setup.

With that one, it looks like the E-A coil is in the traditional Fender spot and the D-G coil is much closer to the neck than the usual reversed P. Anyone got one and measuring tape?

It's better to burn out than fade away. What a legacy to leave behind.

Well done all, another great selection. I just couldn't get time, motivation and inspiration to align this month. A hearty doff of the cap in the direction of all of you who did. It's not easy.

Ah, yes, I had forgotten about them. Limp Bizkit several years ago. Some Kerrang package tour. Utterly horrible. Nekrogoblikon, crap metal with some extra from The Office in a goblin mask. Then Crossfaith, I think it was. Japanese crap metal but ridiculously loud and with seizure-inducing strobes every three or four seconds. There was another band whose name escapes me but they were patrons of the trough of crap metal, too. Then Limp Bizkit, who I had high hopes for, but they were rubbish, just disjointed and disinterested. I left at the start of the second Nirvana cover. It still annoys me that I paid into that one.

Technotronic Jungle Brothers

Pop Will Eat Itself Hardcore Superstar The Housemartins

There are enough 70's Les Pauls, Gibson ones, which were made like that, too. Play authentic, play a pancake Les Paul.

Doom

Paper and poly gives quite a bright tone but paper with nitro sounds like St. Leo singing in the shower on Christmas morning using primarily his left hand to get a lather going in his side hair.

There's now a Formula 1 driver born this century.

Fantastic work and a great thread to follow.

Yeah, left their gig in the Ambassador in Dublin a few years ago. I had a two hour drive home and was in danger of falling asleep in the venue, never mind the car. First gig I ever left was Opeth touring Watershed, I think. They made the mistake of having Cynic support and, to be honest, there was no following them. I like Opeth but they were boring as fooook live. At Bloodstock 2016 I left Slayer after about 5 songs. They were simply terrible. I first saw them back in 88 touring SOH and a few times since and they got progressively more boring each time. There was just nothing left of them which was of any interest to me. I wished they'd be good but, no... just no.

Our music from the 90's/00's? Bleedin' kids!

Very nice, congratulations. Great to see a bass doing its own thing, design-wise. What are the controls? And any chance of a pic including the headstock?

The original is excellent, of course, but faster it is not

I always check out the supports and have gone specifically for the support a number of times. The one that immediately comes to mind is Cynic supporting Opeth. At the time, Cynic was a bucket list band and, even though I like Opeth, I couldn't even keep interested to the end of their set and left early. Cynic was just too good an experience. I went to see Sepultura support In Flames, never liked In Flames. I travelled to the Bloodstock festival years ago just to see Atheist, who were playing early enough in the day. Only Metal Church, of the other bands on the bill, were of any interest at all.

Ok, then. Let's say that, unless the pickup has been specifically designed otherwise, running two coils in series generally emphasises the low mids and this is the recognisable trait of the average P bass 😉

I remember seeing a white, late 50's P for sale, years ago. The finish was missing from much of the back of the body and you could see there were not just horizontal joins, but a diagonal one too. The body was assembled from random offcuts, by the looks of it. They still sold it for almost 10 grand, IIRC. I wish I had saved a picture of it.

Yeah, he didn't have to pay Gibson for borrowing their patented humbucker design 😉

What's worth considering also is, if you play by anchoring your thumb on the pickup, like I do, where you strike the string can also change quite dramatically as a result of where the pickup is which will also affect the sound of what comes out of the speaker.

As a young Metaller I spent a lot of time getting three plucking fingers going as standard for the high tempos the music I loved required. Something like this is reasonably comfortable for me with three and I reckon it'd be a shortcut to RSI if you played this kind of speed consistently with two fingers.