Doctor J

It spreads. My earliest memory is listening to my Mum's Mothers Of Invention records, particularly, Absolutely Free and We're Only In It For The Money. Generally, my Mum was Stones, my Dad was Beatles. I was into 80's pop as a kid, though. As a teenager, I got into Thrash, then Death Metal. That was my music. In the late 80's I started playing bass, but I was listening to lots of Bernard Edwards alongside my, for then, extreme Metal. After '93, new music became a bit of a wasteland. I started investigating older stuff. I still kept an ear out on any new stuff but the Metal I loved was a no-go zone in that era. I discovered Steely Dan and stuff like that. Early 00's, the metal world improved but I saw EST a couple of times which was amazing, catching Brian Wilson's Pet Sounds tour was amazing too. New music, old music, there's only good music and bad music. These days, I am genre-less, in terms of preference. I'll always love the great Metal of the 80's and the very early 90's but still try new bands. I feel I definitely have a fairly high shite filter, there is so much terrible stuff out there, but the good stuff is really good. iTunes tells me my recently added music is from Strigoi, The Mars Volta, Goatwhore, The Beatles (Revolver stereo mix), Snarky Puppy, Sonic Youth, the new Turin Brakes, Elder and The Final Countdown by Europe. Music is amazing. Give me more.

Yeah, I mean, it's not even old.

Relax, lads.

HMU?

I've looked at the ad and I've watched some of the video and I still haven't a fooooken clue what the purpose of that is. It's not even a solution for a problem which doesn't exist. It's just... pointless. It reminds me of what the goon I bought my old Streamer from had done. If you know what a Ken Smith brass but is shaped like, each fret had been sculpted a bit like that - a raised bit under the string, shaped to cup the string like a nut slot, and filed almost level to the fretboard between the strings. I still don't understand why someone would do that.

The custom butter-knife pickup routing technique, I see.

I could have lied, but it's Stone Cold Bush.

I generally tune lyrics out but, when I don't, self-obsessed me-me-poor-little-me, especially delivered from a middle-aged person of wealth, don't put me in a happy place.

Nah, Streamer was the bass of the 90's for me (alongside its daddy, the Spector). So many bands were using that design in the 90's. If anything, it was going out of style in the 00's. What about an Ibanez SR, one of the fancier wood ones? Or a Bongo?

Just be aware the USA SUB basses have no forearm or belly contouring, so if you like those ergonomic comforts, the SUB might not be for you. Like Bolo has pointed out, the asking price for them has sky-rocketed in the last year and often are not too far shy of a full-on US Stingray.

Same here, IOS with firefox, nothing updated between last night when it wasn't there and this morning, when I can't get rid of it. Very annoying. Only popping up here.

Well done, Lurks!

Nothing wrong with liking either of them, just they're very deliberate efforts at trying to get radio play. Two albums full of melodic mid-tempo rock, intentionally inoffensive lyrics with big, singalong choruses. They're soft, so very soft. Mustaine tried to blame it all on Dann Huff a few years later 😂

Youthanasia and Cryptic Writings are soft as warm butter.

The production is what sold that album. There is filler aplenty on there. Rock made some fairly weak songs (alongside the confirmed bangers we all know and love) sound immense. Saying it would suit Britney is just rubbish. It's thick with reverb which suits the slower tempos, it allows long decays to fill the space beautifully. It wouldn't suit their early songs at all, absolutely not, it would just sound like mush but it's definitely a long way away from being a pop production too.

On a semi-related note, this is an interesting read https://loudwire.com/avenged-sevenfold-m-shadows-insight-ticketmaster-pricing-controversy/

Jazz Confusion necks.

Crime pays. It pays big. https://www.wearesuper.co/metallica#ee-section

I'm positive it's terrible.

Terrible. Utterly terrible. Consistent with their last 30+ years, I suppose. It's mystifying. They used to be so f*****g amazingly good. There is nothing of that old band left in them.

It says 7 May 1992. The auction has already happened.

I've had lots of Fenders over the years but now don't have any Fenders, despite being particularly fond of the J design, and don't see myself ever owning a another one. In my experience, there are plenty of companies making much better instruments, based on Fender designs, which cost far less money than "the real thing". Unless you feel the need to alleviate the pressure and be seen with that logo, don't bother. You'll get far more joy being open minded and exploring what alternatives are out there.

BMT is the law. TMB is terrible, backwards stuff.

We played a gig where the guitarist couldn't feel his hands and played slumped on a stool because he probably couldn't feel his feet either. Even after the singer walked off stage and left both band and venue halfway through the set, we continued to the very bitter end. Probably shouldn't have done that one.