Doctor J

It's almost as if they really, really made an effort to present and perform their music in the best way possible, given the circumstances, and give the audience an experience unlike anything they will ever have seen before with the music they love as the soundtrack 🤔

I've already covered a couple of good ones in the thread below. Another highlight includes: Slipping in liquid spilled on stage by the support band and falling backwards into the amps, in this case a hefty Trace 4x10 combo perched on top of a tea chest, then the agonising wait as it rocked back and forwards above me, wondering if it was going to come down on top of me. When it stopped I got up, the rest of the band were still playing, and continued but noticed I had knocked the mic off the stand and it was now sitting in the spillage. Having narrowly avoided injury already, there was no way I was going to touch it while holding a plugged-in bass so I shouted at a mate in the audience to pick it up and put it back in the stand instead.

No corpses were shamelessly exploited by the living in the making of this show/performance, therefore it's ok with me.

Given the thread title, I was expecting yet another mundane P, J and Stingray effort and was pleasantly surprised to see something very different. Shame on me. An excellent selection, indeed. Very cool.

If it was cheap enough, I'd buy it, fret it and play real doom on it.

Fair play to all of you. I was abroad at the start of the month and didn't even get close to finishing anything for this month. A top selection submitted, as usual 👍

It featured in La Bamba, if I recall correctly.

I love instrumental music. There are some fantastic ones in the Metal world, often a nice change of pace and mood in an album context. And then there's the wide, wide world of Jazz.

There are lots of late 70's and early 80's Fenders getting bought and sold. Anyone who remembers them around the time knows they can't all be good ones 😂

I was probably more sensitive to it when I was younger. A few of the albums I loved in my late teens were played on late 80's Ibanez SR800LE and SR1000E so I have a soft spot for those two models in particular. Cliff with his Aria and, before that, Ric, of course, definitely made an impression. I've tried to play as many different basses as I can over the years, though, and find what's right for me. Much as 4003s are cool, I can do without the bastarding right angle of the body digging into my forearm when I play. I've yet to find a Fender I'd want to keep forever, so it doesn't matter how many people play them, I just have no interest. I know what I like and I like what I like, these days, regardless of who played one or not. There's a definite period of late 80's to early 90's where I am drawn to instruments of that era but not because of any group of players, probably more that it was the time when I was really getting into playing bass and guitar. I also didn't have the money to explore the fantastic exotica of the time. Players, though? Nah, past that stage, I think.

The Original AC/DC isn't taken. Checkmate!

Paul Turneround and call Andertons.

To someone I don't know? Nope. Plain and simple.

Nope, that's how it came from the factory

Yep, my 77 had it too, which had a factory clear finish.

Sakae are not what they were.

Not all takeovers are Gibson/Fender seek and destroy missions. Korg resurrected Vox. It's not necessarily a death sentence here.

A pic would help to identify the model. It is an older SR1000e or one of the newer ones? My 89 has a Gotoh Omni-Adjust bridge. Later models came with an Ibanez unit, the Accu-Cast B IV Gotoh were pretty helpful when I contacted them about obscure bridge parts in the past https://g-gotoh.com/contact-us/?lang=en And I've heard Ibanez are responsive too https://www.ibanez.com/eu/support/contact/

Facebook and the likes are making it much harder to access information on their sites without logging on. As someone who doesn't participate in social media, I have given up clicking band links to FB/Instagram, etc. as it's usually a dead end. I'm a music buyer and a gig-goer but I've no interest joining Facebook to find out when your next gig is. I am not going to chase your information around the internet. I'm sure I'm not the only one, so I'd recommend every band have their information somewhere which doesn't require a log on. It doesn't need to be your own website, but don't put your info exclusively in the FB basket and think you have told the world.

They're not. They were hand made in Japan in the early 00's.

Nothing new to add, really, other than every time I pick up my Orion I think I could probably do without my other basses.

Here's the Venus with an 04 Standard 5. I think it was from 2003. Great bass, but I couldn't live without a forearm contour.

Looks like it took 21 minutes to come to that conclusion?

Yeah, that natural Venus used to be mine. Slab top, binding, no inlays.

I took up drumming about 7 years after I started playing bass. I saw bass and drums as musical bedfellows and definitely felt I get a better understanding of what I should be doing on a bass by playing drums. I ended up playing drums for a few bands in the late 90's. After about 10 years of not drumming, I took up sticks again a few years ago. It's great fun, helps me musically and is also a real challenge to get good at. I'd recommend it to everyone.