Doctor J

Define "better". If you want something which sounds as close to what the band and producer were aiming for in the studio as commercially possible without going into super high-resolution digital audio, CD without doubt. If you want something with fuzzy warm low end and a lack of detail which some find pleasing to the ear and others claim is pleasing to the ear, then records. Do you have an impressive beard?

I like them a lot, nice variety in there, not just the usual mundane P's and J's 👍

This is what the people wanted. Consider control taken back.

As far as I'm aware, with the Global Shipping Program, you ship the item to a local ebay hub who ship it on to the recipient. At least, the last thing I received through it had been shipped to an ebay address first, as I found when peeling off the shipping labels. As ebay are then the ones shipping into the destination country, they pay the duty at that point. It's not perfect, I suppose but, as a buyer, it is nice to know the final cost when you're buying rather than an educated guess until the postie arrives with an invoice.

If Reverb don't have something like the Global Shipping Program set up then you will pay the courier when it arrives in your country.

Ebay have had the Global Shipping Program for years. Essentially, you pay the import duty to them and they pay The Man, rather than you paying the courier or the Post Office. Either way, you pay. It is used, in this case, to simply illustrate that import duty is being charged for second-hand goods moving between the EU and UK.

And it looks like it applies to items under £390 too

Just browsing through ebay and they are applying import duty to items leaving the UK going to here in the sunny EU so, obviously, the same will apply for second-hand goods going the other way. Ah well, the FS section was beautiful while it lasted.

Hate crime?

Saw him twice with Wong in late February just before everything went wrong. Great player. He really makes it look effortless. One of the gigs I had tickets to was Wong with the Metropole Orchestra in Amsterdam in May. I have no doubt it would have been amazing to witness in person.

Your 88 Thumb has the brass adjust-a-nut 1 with the rotating brass screws? It should be fine. With a Warwick you're more likely to find an issue with the B string fitting the bridge as the ball-end wraps on non-tapered strings can be too wide for the narrow slot in the bridge anchor, so try a B from a Warwick set initially.

He's 78. I don't expect to live that long, never mind be able to perform. His dues have been overpaid and then some.

It stopped after 4 seconds!

I kept one years ago when I was playing in a free-form jazz-metal band. Strange things happened frequently and I'm glad I documented much of it. Those gigs, where we did not have any actual songs to play when we went onstage, were far more interesting than later years when I was in bands who wrote songs and rehearsed and such. For example:

Note the channel name https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3FpD5FxyDXL1rTrGsYKXAw Edit - screengrab added in case he deletes or renames that too

Just the thing if you want to rock and roll all night, no?

An entertaining video, thanks for posting. He didn't need a ground wire for the EMGs though. As they say...

Oh dear.

Convicted fraudster clearing attempting to defraud multiple people. Why isn't this with the Police already?

Always nice to see some Celtic Frost appreciation. Bonus points for the rarity of the track 🙂

Yeah, blue. Andy's one is sublime.

Yeah, I know what you meant and it did not mean you were unsympathetic to the situation the shop is in, quite clearly. I think it's a social media thing infiltrating the forum, I've noticed a rise in it too.

Classy!

Nowhere did he say or imply it was a victimless crime. Call off the hounds, lads.

All style, no substance. Technically accomplished players but where is the soul?