Doctor J

The red diminishes with exposure to light over a long period of time. You can see it's still visible on the back.

And nowhere near enough fire.

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They're owned by Fender and are adopting the Fender design philosophy from the last 20+ years, namely jumble up a load of existing parts and give it a name to pretend it's something new. That Fender are now trying to cash in on Ric aesthetics is a very interesting development. That thing is a very ugly mess, it must be said.

At one gig I played back in the early 90s, the band I was playing very raw and heavy doom stuff so, not wanting to be tempted by any fancy notes, I removed all but the biggest string, which was tuned down a long, long way. The bassist from one of the other bands came in looking to borrow a bass but wasn't desperate enough to rock a one-stringer. Quite ungrateful, I thought.

Think about it for a while. Did the basses which created that classic vintage tone have high-mass bridges? Were they old/vintage basses when the classic vintage tone was being recorded?

I'm not sure I would have been so charitable, especially to someone who has broken two strings. How the hell do you break one bass string, never mind two? I once loaned my Rickenbacker 4003 (when they were very hard to come by over here and very, very expensive in the days before online sales really took off) for a soundcheck to a guy on the bill who had "forgotten" his bass. All I did was worry about "what kind of bassist forgets his bass"? My conclusion was "one not to be trusted with my Rickenbacker" and he was instructed to use the time between soundcheck and their set starting to unforget his bass, he wasn't getting my one for their set.

The Black album is at least 50% filler to these ears, so there's no problem dissociating the sound from the songs. It sounds huge, punchy and everything has its place in the mix, which is exactly what they were trying to achieve. That mix tricked loads of people into thinking it's an album full of great songs 😁

You wouldn't say Metallica albums 5, 6 and 7 have good mixes? They're not my favourite, musically, by any stretch, but they are sonically magnificent, no doubt about it. That entire OP video is a sham, by virtue of the fact that the AJFA bass tone is on there. Nobody heard that bass tone until the Guitar Hero stems came out. You can't hear it on the album so how can it be a bad tone in the context of the album? If it's just a load of bedroom maestros judging based on hearing it in isolation, and beaching about what sounds bad in isolation, which it is, then it's entirely pointless. How much sneering has been done on here about guitarists with bedroom tone, rather than a tone which works in a band context? I appreciate the guy needs to continually get hits on his channel, but it's a tabloid-level approach to what could have been an educational discussion.

Since music itself has become worthless, bands are exploring other revenue generating opportunities. Tat, for want of a better word, sells. That's quite tasteful and actually useful in comparison with much of the other crap out there.

Few things ruin the crowd buzz quite as effectively as the band beaching and complaining all the time. The exception, of course, is if you're looking at The Jesus and Mary Chain, in which case you haven't really seen them if the show passes without some kind of tantrum and meltdown.

Nice. Very nice.

He'll just write S in front and TH after, it's all good 🙂

It'll be about 25% of the declared values, including shipping costs.

I have a title. Now for the rest of it 😵

Did you try the Jazz again after the break? It's more likely something getting hotter than it should in the amp. Turning it off for an hour would have let it all cool.

It says "Face value". Perhaps they were doing this price-escalates-based-on-demand model which was coming in shortly prior to Covid-19 shutting everything down. The Ozzy gig over here was advertised as "Tickets from €59" and, sure enough, one (or possibly two) paid €59 but most found themselves being charged more and more as there was decent demand early on. The price just kept rising, seemingly legitimately, on the Ticketmaster site. £270 is an insane amount of money for a ticket to any band.

It has basically eliminated any prospect of buying anything used from the UK. There have been a few basses which probably would have found a new home had it not been for the extra taxation making an attractive looking deal far too expensive. Even trying to buy small items, such as pickups or preamps, has become needlessly difficult. I had two sellers on the forums here refuse to sell to me because they were intimidated/frustrated by the prospect of having to complete paperwork to post outside the UK.

At the risk of seemingly repeating last year's answer, it's this. Not the bass but, rather, the Sadowsky onboard preamp I installed. After a little bit of woodwork, it's never fun putting new holes into old basses, it has turned a great playing instrument with quirky and complicated electronics into an absolute savage which plays and sounds as good as anything I've ever had. Rather than have a small hole or non-functioning switch, I set the switch up to run the pickups as serial/parallel which has added another nice option to a great, great bass. After Before

Does... does this mean Leo didn't get it right, first time? Wow. I don't want to be the one to break this on TB 🥺

Congratulations, @upside downer , top job!

Pattoo, tattoo , let's call the whole thing off?

They don't have a bad album, though Down On The Upside comes close 😂, but yeah Batmotorfinger is clearly a banger too

While Louder Than Love is the greatest thing they ever did (I appreciate there is room for discussion here), this album is a belter from start to finish