Doctor J

I thought the Metro Express had some generic EQ and not an actual Sadowsky unit?

He should... take it easy

Get some aluminium tape from screwfix and run a thin strip around the bit of the ferrule which isn't quite snug enough.

Many an ankle will crack like a dried twig.

Print up a load of flyers and hand them out at gigs at that venue over the next few weeks, like the old days.

I like Never Say Die. It is unfairly maligned, in my opinion.

You can get one in Japan in the mid 80's 😵‍💫 Seriously though, try Ishibashi's u-box, ebay Japan, that kind of thing. This doesn't look like anything which has been in production in the last 35 years. They look like Aria pickups alright, though I've never seen that model before. The bridge saddles look Aria too.

Jackson bought Charvel in the late 70's, they've been one entity under different logos since then with many shared models, usually Jackson made in USA and Charvel made in Japan. When FMIC bought Jackson, they got the Charvel brand too. When Fender bought Jackson, the market for pointy guitars was on its arse, but for a small core following. The pointy stuff is still not huge business but they're shifting loads of Fender derived designs, under the Charvel name, which would be just too radical, despite the traditional styling, for the average Fender customer.

Ahhh, how I miss the days when people just played what they liked instead of trying to adhere to aesthetic stereotypes. Anyway, Jackson are owned and made by Fender, have been for over a decade. It's another rehashed Jazz-a-like made by the people who bought the rights to the original Jazz designs. It's a Fender, basically, just they use a different decal when they make subtle design variations which would have the Fender cultists knocking pomade onto their zoot suits. We can all sleep easy tonight 😉

Carpet? Luxury. Jaco only needed lino.

Well, they used to be black at both ends when I tried them and found they were not for me 😉

Elites were black silk wound, no?

I had a 2000 US strat where the finish on the neck started to crack and peel before it was even a year old. As I had bought it new, they replaced the neck under warranty but the new neck felt nothing like the old neck and played substantially worse, too. I could never get it to set up like the old neck, despite them being the same series made one year apart. It was junk. It made me a lot more open to exploring other brands and, as it turned out, finding the grass actually was a lot greener elsewhere.

Social media is society's cess pit. The very worst of human personality flaws are allowed to flourish and grow there without any kind of consequence and, as a result, it just gets worse and worse. Do yourself a huge favour and remove yourself from it, forget it exists.

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Absolutely.

Tell it to do upbeat electro pop and it is already excellent. Jazz and Metal, not so much. If it improves at the same rate midjourney did at images, however, it will make new bands entirely redundant within a couple of years. The influence of this will be utterly massive. The way I can see it being used is in giving people music as they want it Hey Alexa, play me Morbid Tales-era Celtic Frost with Master of Puppets Hetfield singing Play me Back in Black with Bon Scott singing Play me sad xmas piano ballads with Morrissey singing Play me lots of catchy pop like "Can't Get You Out of My Head" all sung by Grace Jones That kind of thing. It is end times for bands because, let's be honest, the discerning music lover is very much a niche item. Most of the public don't give a sheet where their music comes from, or that it was composed or played by humans.

Everything I bought from Japan came via Japanpost EMS and their service was always excellent, usually took exactly a week to arrive. Bubblewrap the bass in the case, get a box from a shop and post, I say.

Give the people what they want, get paid. Cash money!

Laugh now, but this is the stuff you'll be playing down the Dog and Scrote in a couple of years https://app.suno.ai/song/b0e6be87-e9d1-4c18-8a55-aaed6d97f0d3/

Is the push/pull an active bypass and, if so, have you replaced the battery?

Dress up as sailors and call it "Aye aye, M80's!"

Pop Won't Play Itself

Pwllheli Sound Machine

Get the string off and you should be able to push it back in with your finger, enough for the screw to catch. You won't be able to do it with string tension acting on the gear which is pushing the shaft out.