Doctor J

STOP!!! Abba time!

I'm coming in somewhere between country and disco 😵

I like that a lot.

Yeah, on the singing/rapping borderline, add Zack de la Rocha from RATM. He's like Freddie Mercury in the way that you realise just how truly great he was by hearing other people try his songs.

Being a metal lover, this is my kind of territory but, if it's actual singing efforts we're talking about... Mark Arm from Mudhoney Henry Rollins Sabbath era Ozzy Chuck Mosely from Faith No More Paul Linehan from The Frank and Walters It's interesting to see people mention the kind of X-factor screensavers who can hit notes but have nothing to say, those who just want to be famous and take the quick route to get there, compared to those who are prepared to live in a van and sleep on floors for years in order to play and just get their music out there. Authenticity and integrity go a long way to covering a lot of technical vocal sins.

Gruff from Super Furry Animals

No need for that surprise, he was the 5th post

Snow

Lamentably so

The victims are not just Bass Collections

The oldest and newest members of the family. Despite appearances, they're both around the same age, just the ESP has had the misfortune of living with me for the last 30-odd years.

Poorly thought out solutions to getting sufficient break angle over the nut. For example, using three separate pieces of junk for five strings.

Nah, you're thinking of knob controls, completely different thing altogether 😁

[K.I.T.T.]I really don't think this is a good idea, Michael![/K.I.T.T.]

Bought another bass from Jarek. Again, he was a gent to deal with and another smooth and easy transaction was done. Highly recommended, again!

Jazz knobs put on so the pointer is somewhere near 2 O'Clock to signify fully open. Oh, the humanity!

Wow, what are the pickups?

Time for a dance-off? Well done, all.

Ah cool! I'm glad you enjoyed it! 🙂

I sold it to a guy in Hungary, IIRC. It was a really nice bass but I just wasn't digging the six string thing at the time.

Hostility towards people who buy reissues? What are you talking about?

The commercial exploitation of anything to do with Lemmy has been utterly shameless since his passing.

An open string is essentially fretted at the nut. Indeed, many instruments have a zero fret, therefore every note you hit on a bass is fretted. There is no difference. You're saying that every note with the kind of tapered string technology we use on a bass is imbalanced and I say that's not my experience at all. Again, I'll stress that I used SR2000 strings, where the B, E, A and D string had tapered cores, the G and C strings were "normal" and I did not experience overtones or any tonal anomalies at any point on the fretboard on any string. I am also a pedant when it comes to set-ups, for what it's worth. There are no problems with open or tapered core strings.

I used Dean Markley SR2000 strings on my old sixer. I loved them an experienced no strange overtone or intonation problems.