Doctor J

Supergrass playing everything about 15 bpm slower than when they were young lads 🤣 Nice to see the Blazer still in action, though. Total respect.

I had never heard a note from them before I bought it. Due to the death of their bassist in a bus crash on tour, they had a guy from another band, whose name I had heard of but also never actually heard a note of their songs, standing in for recording. This association was enough for me to buy it. I still clearly remember the bus journey home as I listened for the first time. It enthrals me now, thirty years later, as much as it did then.

I pay no attention to reviews on big sites anymore, they're just advertising pieces with no critical appraisal at all. They try harder not to pi$s off the biz side and encourage the reader to click on their tagged purchase links than offer any real insight into the quality of the music. Rust In Peace and Peace Sells... are 9/10 albums, almost perfect but ever so slightly flawed. Having heard a couple of songs off this one, there is no way it's at that level. They gave Distopia 8.5/10 ffs 😂 You have to scroll a long way down to find anything below 8/10 on Blabbermouth. Utterly meaningless scoring. I'm looking forward to hearing the whole album, all the same, though if it's something which warrants more than one or two listens it will be an achievement, to be honest.

Thanks, gents, and all who participated. Some great tunes in there 👍🏻

Love this, massive Beefheart vibe, deeeelcious 👌🏻

Play. You just play leaderer bass. Kick donkey, take names.

Yes, but, I mean, not literally.

In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, in the scene where Robert Patrick, playing the T-1000, drives the truck off the bridge, into the levee, you can clearly see the right-front trackrod break and the wheel break alignment and spear to the right. However, in the next scene, the truck is grand.

Don't go into it thinking "what should I upgrade?" Upgrades should only be a consideration if you have played it for a while and found something to be deficient. Japanese Fenders are generally superb. Play it for a while and get to know it. Only then decode if you need to mutilate it.

Perhaps it was "too hot to handle" and muttered by a guy in Cash Converters?

The scratchplate is the least of the design problems there 😂

I'm 48 and write my own stuff. Don't give up, if you enjoy playing. Adapt to the situation and find a way to make it work for you.

Coral Vorderman?

Keidis is the weak link, for me. All the spunk, sexiness and danger is gone. In their place is a fella trying to make sure parent-teacher meetings don't get awkward. It sounds like he's got nothing left to say and is filling space with meaningless fluff, trying not to upset anybody.

They will be owned by banks and hedge funds, to be loaned out to future versions of Joe Bonamassa to play their fake blues on, in high-priced pay-per-view special streaming performances.

Inspired by a recent post by @NancyJohnson in the band name thread, a thread with a list of all your band's names over the years might be entertaining... hopefully. Starting in 1989... Morgue-asm - mercifully never even made it as far as a rehearsal room. I think there was a logo, though. Edible - all the songs were about food, unintentionally. Old Scratch - found in a thesaurus, looking up Satan. Perfect for jazz metal improv. Frank Mammoth - they wanted Black Mammoth, I said no. Twin Earth - turns out there were multiple twins. The Remain - yeah, I know. Broken Holmes Angry Watson - very short lived noise thing, I really liked this name. Trusted None - can you feel the angst? The Chapman Society - after Mark. Better than The Remain, I suppose. Acrid Nebula - heavy stuff. Decryptor - a moment of inspiration while looking at a laptop hard disk. Two Tales of Woe - not one, not three, two. Withered Fist - inspired by the glorious remains of St. Istvan. There may have more, but those are the ones I can remember.

Very cool. Like a 2022 version of the 20/20

Thanks, I was messing with the kick EQ and volume right up to the end, I couldn't get it to work, but I put a high-pass filter at about 80Hz on it which made it a lot better. It's a 20" drum. I was really worried it would sound puny when I bought it but it's got a lot of meat to it.

Yeah, if versatility is key then the G&L is king of that particular mountain.

The song: For some reason, I envisioned a male escort on his way home after a late... ehhh... shift, I suppose. He's a good guy, alone in a world which just doesn't understand. The technical stuff: Yamaha drums into Thomann mics into Behringer interface, as always. I tried a little bit of damping on the snare top skin, kind of going for an old-school disco sound but I think I missed. I tried additional percussion too, for effect, That's right. Cowbell. There are four bass tracks on there. A high one with the Ashdown octaver thing on, plus a low bass during the verses. The other two was messing around with a Boss Synth Bass pedal, which was a lot of fun. Guitars were a Tokai 335 and a Bacchus strat into an Avid Eleven, as always, but there's not much guitar on there. Sometimes it's just basses stacked or just one bass synth track. I wanted to do some wah stuff, in keeping with the theme, but the pot in my wah pedal is scratchy and cleaner couldn't cure it. Instead, I tried some envelope filter stuff which didn't really come out well. Vocals are me trying desperately not to sound like myself, including 6 tracks of BVs to try to make it sound all motown, like. Yeah, that didn't really come together either. Ah well.

Same with mine, the neck is fantastic and very stable. I don't think Tokai have widespread neck issues. This thread is the first I've ever heard of it.

I used to have a Digidesign 002 and OctoPre connected via ADAT, back in the day, and sold them when I stopped drumming. After I started drumming again, I went with Behringer UMC 1820 and Ultragain Digital at very reasonable money from Thomann, again, connected via ADAT. I'm running 5 toms, kick, snare top and bottom, two overheads and dedicated hi-hat and ride mics for the kit, with channels to spare for stringed instruments too. I can't fault them.

You should look up the old bassist. If you like judging people based on a couple of paragraphs in a magazine article, it'll make your day.

It's got what it takes, so tell me why can't this be good?