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Doctor J

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  1. 2-record version of Are You Experienced and some socks... which I shall play bass in.
  2. Thanks. I really, really like it. I wanted to get the Lo-Z pickups and 2 band pre so was specifically hunting for the LE. I much prefer them to the AFR and vari-mid setup which came shortly after. It's almost Warwick-like in tone, has a lot of the same growl with a slightly bigger low end and slightly tamed high end. It's still a slim neck but it's much more substantial than the mid 90's wenge necked SR I used to have, quite round at the back and very comfortable. Overall it's really light too. I'm quite chuffed.
  3. You just don't see suits of that quality at all these days
  4. I've seen the headstock shape before so I had a quick sniff through the u-box to see if they had one, thought it might be a Bossa. While there, I found the greatest brand name ever. Up yours, Fender, I want one of these. I realise this doesn't help in the slightest. You could try searches on some of the Japanese retail sites, sort by highest price first. There are a few videos of her out there but nothing I could find showed the headstock up close [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iknTtc54f0U[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e7MHe42c3w[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CeTnbliiY8[/media]
  5. I recently picked up this 89 SR800LE, it's quite black indeed.
  6. There's no such thing as hair metal, just a silly term applied long after the bleached and pouffed ones had bought flannel shirts. Therefore, Death Metal for life!
  7. Lovely stuff, sone very rare birds in that pic. Sarzos and Peaveys in general are desperately overlooked. I picked up this one earlier this year on a local site, low price but there was just no interest in it. It's interesting reading people's comments on the inspirations for it. To my ears, there's a real MM vibe from the pickups making me think he looked to his old Sabre for the tone, the SB for the looks. Great bass for the money they go for, cost less than a second hand Mexi P. [Img]https://docjgear.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/pv1.jpg" class="ipsImage" /> [Img]https://docjgear.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/pv4.jpg" class="ipsImage" />
  8. That's nice, never saw one of them before
  9. Take the black bass out of the black case and [i]then[/i] take that pic
  10. If you don't build, they may not come. I don't know who they are, but we won't find out with that attitude
  11. [quote name='ikay' timestamp='1450891899' post='2936804'] Speaking of G&L, my revelation of the year was dropping an MFD into a Squier Matt Freeman, a sort of poor man's L1000. It easily holds it's own against my other (much more expensive) basses [url="http://s1090.photobucket.com/user/iankay/media/Stuff/IMG_2891.jpg.html"][/url] [/quote] Very nice. I see the little switch, is it serial/parallel or did you install more of the L1K wiring options?
  12. [quote name='Naetharu' timestamp='1450900104' post='2936892'] Humm, I'm going to sound stupid here but what exactly would count as 'Thrash' - I know its a sub-genera of metal but I've no idea which bands we'd be talking about here. Anyhow, probably glam for me as I like a nice bit of melody more than noisy hi-gain stuff most of the time. [/quote] The first rule of thrash is that it died in 1992 and nothing recorded thereafter qualifies, even if it does mimic the blueprint. There were some fine UK thrash bands back in the day - Acid Reign, Xentrix, Sabbat, D.A.M., Re-Animator, Slammer, Onslaught, Toranaga and more. Check them out, they're well worth hearing. Thrash was more than just the US bands who get bandied around all the time.
  13. Doug is ridiculously good. I'm surprised to see him leave TE after all this time.
  14. I was a thrash orientated youth. In hindsight, it's clear that glam had a fancier caliber of female so now I have my regrets. I'll happily listen to both these days.
  15. Mo'stax
  16. Get a Precision and play with your thumb anchored on the arse of the neck with some treble rolled off. Keep the EQ on the amp reasonably flat. Most of it will be in your right hand technique.
  17. I didn't find one and the kit got sold a couple of years ago... which did increase the potential bass storage capacity, or BASTCA, if you will.
  18. Good stuff. Just make sure Guitar 2 doesn't feel like he's being picked on. As above, positive reinforcement all the way.
  19. A good Man is hard to find.
  20. [quote name='silky13' timestamp='1450818582' post='2936219'] Awesome! Yeah they've all got max 10cm... You got any pictures? [/quote] I have better pics somewhere I cant find right now, but it's the same kind of idea
  21. Although I was born in the UK, I grew up elsewhere and this fascination with supposed "class" is equally fascinating and baffling. From the outside looking in it looks like a self-imposed categorisation which doesn't exist except in the minds of those who subscribe to the notion. I can't think of any other country where the social origin they were born into in would be factored into the potential or authenticity of a band. It's an amazing concept to think of yourself in that way.
  22. Nicely done. I did something similar actually [i]in[/i] the wardrobe. Give no more than 10cm to each guitar and fill it up.
  23. Whatever song titles you come up with, put each word into a thesaurus and pick whichever synonyms have the most letters.
  24. 1. When choosing ice cream, does your guitarist like it whipped or... [i]scooped[/i]? 2. On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being not at all, 10 being entirely, how much does your drummer think he is Neil Peart? 3. How much do I get paid? 4. How much do you get paid?
  25. [quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1450777892' post='2935678'] Boo, did some digging and the E-Tuner (actually a Shadow product) doesn't go low enough for bass - bottom frequency response is 66Hz according to docs. No built in cleverness for me then [/quote] Play the octave harmonic.
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