Doctor J

Nice. You can't go wrong with one of them.

Required? Only one mic is required, the rest are dependant on what kind of drum sound you're going for. I don't think the techniques of his producerer can be used as a stick to beat the guy with I'm sure Bonham, had he lived, would have known the joys of midi and huge thunderclap gated reverb snares in the 80's like everyone else.

Is this what you mean? They're just copying this from the old 4001, they're not using maple for the headstock wings anymore, that's how they always used to be. I think I prefer the yellow in the Fireglo finish, personally. My old 92 4003 was yellowish in the middle and I always found the pinkish hue of the followin years to be a bit offputting. I have to say, I like this a lot (other than them being uncomfortable bastards to play)

Got a link?

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1334406435' post='1615759'] How about a big sticker saying 'Nuke Ireland'? [/quote] And the Whales!

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1334406183' post='1615753'] For the interest of balance I say Orange and green checks with a white guard [/quote]Agreed

Don't hold your breath, it might take a while. I must have missed something, when did you get the Stingray? A recent arrival?

I don't think that has been decided yet

Depends on which side of the fence you're on

You have chosen wisely. Orange is the best, apart from in July, boooooo!

Poor oul Neil is getting a rough ride, I actually like his playing a lot, he's nowhere near as busy as a lot of those he influenced. The guy's got good musical sense and knows when to take it easy. My point was more that a lot of drummers who worship him tend to overlook his overall musicality and focus on doing huge rolls and trying to be more clever than they actually are. Neil's ok though. As for Yngwie, I can't listen to his albums but I went to see him play and was thoroughly entertained for 90 minutes. The guy knows how to put on a show, that much is for sure

You're in good company I'll echo what's been said, bring it to a pro, pushing it back from the inside could do a lot more damage. That's too nice a bass to f*** around with.

[quote name='pietruszka' timestamp='1334229604' post='1612820'] A drummer I used to play for is a massive Bonham fan. Totally understandable! Dan [/quote]A drummer I used to play with hated Bonham, but idolised Neil Peart to the point of having the stupidly big red kit, signature sticks, etc. To cut a long story short, I didn't play with him for long. When you meet a drummer and if they say they like Bonham and/or Tony Thompson. you're usually onto a good thing.

Interesting. I think the fact that Cowell and Sony were aware of the use of the name and used it anyway won't work in their favour. I dislike the "We want that, you won't let us have it so we'll take it anyway" attitude and hopefully, given how hard Sony and the rest of the biz want the hammer to fall on people with this attitude to downloading music, the justice system will apply the protection of intellectual rights as vigorously as the biz wants it applied in every other circumstance - not just when it suits them.

Sound. The two new tunes they played on the last tour were winners.

Wait, did you actually think it was about the music?

You can prove anything with statistics.... no, I haven't the stomach to finish that. I'll get my coat.

Bass first, guitar and drums later.

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1333614465' post='1604127'] Funk != Slap [/quote]This. 100% this.

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1333614465' post='1604127'] But by far the most slap heavy album from RHCP is Mother's Milk. [/quote]Indeed and if you check the sales of that album before and after BSSM you'll see what I'm getting at. Prior to BSSM they were still a reasonably underground band, the only time I saw them on tv was on the James Whale radio show, if you remember that. A mate of mine was a huge fan at the time so I remember their subsequent success correlating with the explosion in the numbers of Stingrays on stages and thumbs cocked and ready to do damage. They were dark days indeed

Covers and tributes have never interested me in the slightest. I did play in a mate's blues/rock cover band for a while, on and off whenever he was looking for a new bassist or drummer, just filling in until he got a proper replacement but it was purely because he's a mate and needed a hand. I found the whole process of half-arsedly learning what they thought the crowd would like to hear to be soul destroying. Unless my heart is in it, there's no point in me being there. I want to play what I [i]want[/i] to play, not just playing some tunes I have no passion for. I can't see myself just sucking it up for cash and doing the wedding and function scene, I think I'd rather not play at all. It always depresses me to see lads on a stage playing covers and just going through the motions, where you can tell they're on autopilot and another little piece of them is dying inside as the grind through Mustang Sally for the thousandth time. The joy I get out of it all is the creative process, writing music, coming up with something new. Since the last band ended I've just been writing and recording myself and loving it, honestly. That looks like the way it's going to stay for the time being, at least. My brain's default setting is to find a band and gig but it's not going to happen unless I uncover something which stimulates me.

[quote name='Shade' timestamp='1333576728' post='1603922'] No slap on Blood Sugar (Aside from chorus and bridge on Power Of Equality), and it was recorded with a Wal, not a Ray [/quote]Uh huh. That album was the catalyst, it made hundreds of white men mistankenly believe they had the funk.

Gold star for you

Might be Soviet in part at least

Slap, when played with taste (work with me) and in context, can be tolerable. The problem is not slap itself, it's the rampant and tasteless abuse of slap by people who need to move on and become the attention seeking lead guitarists they secretly yearn to be. Most of us can think of more than one occasion where it's been clumsily dropped into the most inappropriate songs and used as little more than the four string version of a Malmsteen clone showing you how quickly he can play a monotonous scale. What turned me off slap, back in the early 90's, was when Blood Sugar Sex Magic came out and, within a couple of years seemingly every bassist over here was playing a poxy Stingray and firing their thumb at everything. From the soppiest ballad to the heaviest of Metal, you just couldn't see a band without experiencing "Look at me" syndrome. I kept away from the technique because it just annoyed me to hear it. Even recently, I went to see a Texas blues style guy on tour from England and it was all going well until, three or four songs in, the bassist whipped out his thumb and started boink-a-dinking away. Texas blues + slap? No. Stop. It doesn't work. Why would you think there's a place for slap in Texas blues? Enough, I say. It's time for taste to make a comeback and the showboating to slip into the mists of time where, hopefully, our children and our children's children don't have to feel embarassed for the guy trying to compete with the singer and guitarist and that drummer who is clearly at the wrong gig. I can handle Flea or Larry Graham doing it because they've written their music around it and it fits the lyrics are about gittin' it on and it works and that's great. It just doesn't work when you're playing a folk gig in the local boozer and you're trying to impress some boiler who's only giving you the eye because it's glass. Slap has become like an embarassing mate who, no matter what you did, has done it better, done it sooner and wants everyone to know about it and still thinks his Timmy Mallet glasses are still in. The tragic thing is, it's probably due a comeback any day now