Doctor J

Nice. I've never seen a setup like that before, a full size kit designed just to trigger. Very interesting.

Ronnie James Dio on bass, shortly after his band auditioned to play the Enchantment Under The Sea dance

Passive doesn't disengage the battery from the circuit, only unplugging the lead does.

They're in the past, now. Don't look back angrily.

I bought a headless Status bass from a deeply middle-aged Elvis impersonator (Las Vegas Elvis, to be specific) and got to meet his much younger trophy wife, possibly named Priscilla, I didn't ask.

I saw Chic in Cork on Tuesday, excellent as always. A staggering setlist delivered immaculately.

Some decent sets from Hellfest have been put up

When I was a kid, before the idea of playing bass ever entered my head, I remember seeing that bass in the Wishing Well video and thinking it was the coolest thing I had ever seen. I had no idea it was Cass until this thread. Excellent.

A band I was in, back in the 90's, one gig we had a mate do a gong solo during the set. It didn't go over well. It didn't go over well at all. The public don't really respect the place of the gong in music, I reckon.

Less than a year after the death of wife number four, Jerry Lee Lewis married wife number five, a former cocktail waitress half his age named Shawn Stephens. Stephens, 26, died less than 80 days into the marriage. According to The Village Voice, Stephens didn't wake up the morning of August 24, 1983. Worse still, she was covered in bruises, and both Stephens and her room were coated in blood. On top of that, there was dried blood underneath her nails ... and as noticed by a paramedic, there were claw marks on the back of Lewis' hand. The autopsy, however, blamed Stephens' death on a methadone overdose. That evening, Lewis talked to Stephens' sister on the phone and told her, "Your sister's dead, and she was a bad girl." Source: https://www.grunge.com/187940/the-troubling-history-of-jerry-lee-lewis/

Did you replace the strings, out of interest?

I would expect a decent tech to be able to identify the cause of the buzzing quite quickly and tell you what the problem is. This is simple mechanics, there is nothing complicated in seeing where a vibrating string is making contact with a fret. He should have been able to tell you what was happening straight away. That he hasn't, combined with the Indonesian jibe, would have me concerned greatly. A setup is a quick and simple process, with experience. If it needed more than a setup, he should have been able to tell you what and why, right away. If a brand new bass needed a repair, he should have told you to send it back under warranty. He's had it a week? Wtf is he doing?

Terry Butler's spot in Death, starting with Leprosy, before moving on to Spiritual Healing, though sticking around for Human, Individual Thought Patterns and Symbolic so I'd get to play with Reinert and Hoglan.

Is this not the modern world? Everything is the best thing ever. Everything is so crammed full of profound moments you'll run out of skin once you start getting tattoos about the iconic memories you simply need to trigger. Make sure you let everyone know, too, with an array of carefully taken selfies to show how in the moment you were, living your best life out loud! Hey, PREMIER LEAGUE will be back soon, don't miss a second of it! YOLO!

Always tune up to pitch. If you go sharp, tune back down below the note, give the string a bit of a pull away from the fretboard around the 12th fret to release any slack, then try again, only ever tuning up to pitch.

Are they a Big Chief tribute band or did they just steal the name?

Not MTD, but a real Tobias. Trujillo used to play them in his ST days. Interesting effort, not sure I ever need to hear it again, though.

My experience, from cheap basses to very expensive (US PRS, for example) is that many bigger manufacturers err on the side of caution (and speed) when it comes to nuts and leave them far higher than they ought to be. Alembic and Warwick, to their credit, come with adjustable nuts which are easy to adjust to taste. Bacchus and Sadowsky come with nuts which have actually been addressed by somebody who knows what they're doing and gives a sheeeeeet. I'm sure there are more, but can only comment on ones I have experienced first hand.

Around 2009, if I recall correctly. That 30 year mark is when the mojo crystallises and releases the tone endorphins, which right all known and unknown wrongs.

The prices being paid for Fender's lowest ebb will never stop amazing me.

The real worry, of course, is that one of the song titles contains "(feat. Ice T)" which should send a chill down the spine of us all. Ice is fine under his own steam but seldom do songs with his featurings ever result in anything other than a swift press of the skip button.

It's terrible, yes, but it's not Lobster Vic, which means it could be worse... if not by much.

I like cheese, grain and Paul McCartney, but I'd only eat two of them. Will that do? 🙂

Could do without the war porn video, all the same.

Sell it and be done with it. Stuff is just stuff.