Doctor J

Weak sauce.

Yep, modded Cardinal.

77 is no longer just the year punk broke, it's also Debbie's age. Not bad. My great-grandmother couldn't rock a show like that.

Yep, self-taught on bass, guitar and drums and have recorded and gigged in bands on all three. I started on bass in the late 80's, had one book on bass playing, which got stolen after a while, so learned from watching other players live and in videos and taking the things I liked from their sound and technique. None of my guitar-playing friends were any use at writing music, so I started playing guitar a couple of years later, purely so we could have a band and play our own music. I followed the same pattern of self-learning through looking and listening. A few years later, I started playing drums and, again, learned the same way. I'm not a maestro on any of them but, in truth, I don't really want to be. They're a means to an end and that end is making music. I'm good enough to play what I want to hear and, if I need to play something beyond my abilities, I'll figure out how to do it and practice it. I don't feel burdened by this approach. I don't feel the need to master techniques I have no musical interest in playing. I sound like me and I'm as good as I need to be to make the music I want to hear. That'll do, pig, that'll do.

The courier should have a record of the weight of the package you sent.

There's definitely something in the air, I picked this up yesterday

DD Verni from Overkill playing a BC Rich Widow?

It was probably meant to be gloss but... Gibson.

I don't think it's needing everyone to love you, at all. We've all played to disinterested crowds who, at least, have had the decency to fosters off to something they prefer and let you get on with it. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt, everyone who has played live knows the score, I'm sure Sleaford Mods are no exception. We all like a performing artist to engage with, and feed off the energy coming back from, the crowd, not to just go through the motions, so how can we expect them not react when someone stays right up the front showing utter disinterest, at best? It has to be distracting, at the very least. Putting a photo on twitter was bad form, most definitely, but at least they were emotionally engaged and gave enough of a sheeet to notice. Perhaps they haven't done enough gigs in pubs to an audience more interested in the football on the big telly for it not to still be something of a novelty for them? They haven't had the enthusiasm to care ground out of them and still value the reaction of the crowd and let that feed into their performance, I would guess. Not a fan, btw, but did enjoy that song with Orbital recently. That's about it.

We got this on national radio, somehow. Not this, though

The hot wire is white. They've already connected the foil to the ground wire so all you need to do is solder the back wire to ground and you should be fine.

Yeah, been there. Playing guitar, in a one-guitar Metal band, in the final of a competition to play at Wacken, I completely forgot the song at the end of the first verse, which was especially unfortunate as I wrote the song. After a few bars of faffing around, hoping my fingers would remember what to do, and after multiple frantic and confused looks from the rest of the band, I remembered what was going on and stumbled into the second verse. Very embarassing.

This is relatively common. Connect the poles to earth and you'll ground the buzz. What's happening is when you touch the poles, you become the conduit to earth. You can solder a wire to the copper foil on the back of the pickups and solder the other end to something connected to earth. If you don't fancy soldering, just ensuring a good and stable connection to earth will do it. Some manufacturers use the metal springs which push up the pickup to do it.

You might say.. they shouldn't have Dundee gig? There's my coat, see you later!

83 to 93. The thrash years, the birth of death metal, the peak of heavy metal and hip-hop, early grunge, some truly sublime pop over here and in the US and the great house music years. Kill 'em all at one end, Focus at the other... beautiful... before it all turned to shiiiiite. Is there anyone for whom it is not their teenage years? 😉

Top job, @upside downer, well deserved 👍🏻

Has anyone even briefly considered there may still have been brown M&Ms in the bowl? Cut them some slack, you don't know what emotional state they could have been in!

It's still no excuse for a newspaper article to consist of twitter posts. That's not news.

We need to stop teaching people to worship money and coach them to push only towards materialistic goals, we don't need religion to do that, nor should we accept it as the default position in the absence of religion.

The input gain on your amp would control the output of the bass and bring it to a normalised level. It's not as if high output active basses are a new thing, hence the ability to control the input level. Line output is line level. The desk also has an input level control which starts at 0 and goes up from there, so I'm struggling to see where the issue is. Unless you were cranking the bejesus out of the gain and EQ it sounds like the engineer getting it wrong. Even then, though, your amp has a balanced output which can be pre or post. I take it the engineer using the balanced output?

Please share a link for the live stream! 😉

You used to be able to get this stuff direct from Ishibashi and other Japanese retailers but, in the mid-00's, FMIC told them to stop selling to Europe. After they couldn't ship here, I asked a local Fender supplier about a few specific Fender Japan items and the price they were being charged by their Fender-approved European distributor was already more expensive than Ishibashi were charging retail including shipping and import duties, before they even got to add their cut to it. A giant swindle, courtesy of FMIC, to gouge more out of their customers. I can see why they did it. When you could get Fender Japan gear for half the price of Fender USA, why would anyone ever buy USA again? It still stank, though. You can still get this kind of thing from the u_box as the rule meany old Fender imposed applies only to new gear.

The three 2-way switches was reasonably popular in superstrat world in the 80's. There's an 80's BC Rich STIII, which I'm trying to resist, for sale over here with that configuration 😂 They are usually on/off for each pickup. The easiest way to verify is to plug the guitar in with all switches up (off). Turn on the first switch and gently tap each pickup with a screwdriver, see what makes a noise through the amp. Go through each switch in sequence, it'll be fairly clear what each switch is doing. Same with the push/pull, turn on the bridge pickup and tap the front and rear of the pickup with a screwdriver. If it's a coil tap, one side of the pickup will stop sending an output with the knob up.