Doctor J

I'm another in the love it camp. It's an amazing looking thing with a Jazz sized nut. What's not to like?

That's the Geezer signature model, also available in blacker than black.

The point being it's not 34" scale and, therefore any correlation to a traditional Jazz is relative, not absolute.

Totally, but then again, it's better to be looking at them than looking for them. Since it's combo, it's probably running at 8 ohms and needs an extension cab to bring it down to 4 ohms and extract the full capability out of it. I've used an ABM 300 for the last 20 years with a 1x15 and 2x10 and have never needed more than that but, as we all know, not all amps are equal when it comes to projecting their wattage. Some are better at generating heat than sound.

Because wattage and loudness\volume are not the same thing and some people think the more watts, the better?

Mezzos are short scale, no?

No, I thought they just don't pay you until you get enough followers to monetise the channel. You need 1000 followers, something like that?

If it's not a canary yellow BC Rich Ironbird, it's not the right bass.

With some Shampoo for an encore?

I made it 4 seconds into his introduction. It might be the best plugin in the world, but I just can't handle forced wackiness on youtube.

Although the quality has dipped with each new album, Feel the Steel is, and always will be, an absolute banger.

After careful consideration, Ronnie James Dio counsels caution when considering purchasing this particular instrument.

Holst was 40 before he started on The Planets, 44 when he finished it. R.E.M. were in their 30's before they created Out Of Time and Automatic For The People. Foo Fighters released only two albums before Grohl turned 30. Gold Mother came out when Tim Booth was 30. Laid, Seven, Whiplash, Millionaires, these wonderful albums all came after. The B-52's peak came well into their 30's. Doug Pinnick was 30 before King's X ever formed. He's still putting out great albums with KXM with George Lynch, who's in his 60's. It's not impossible for older musicians to excel after they turn 30. If they don't, it's nothing to do with what the calendar says.

Mick would have been about 50? 😁

Metallica are a poor example, having tightly embraced mediocrity for 30 years. How about Sepultura, Voivod or Anthrax who continue to put out creative and interesting music well past thirty years into their careers?

Lemmy formed Motorhead as he turned 30. They had a decent song or two, no? One must surely think his post-30 output was better than what went before?

Ronnie James Dio turned 30 in 1972, after which he recorded Richie Blackmore's Rainbow, Rising, Long Live Rock and Roll, Heaven and Hell, Mob Rules, Holy Diver and quite a few more proper bangers. I think you'd find a more accurate indication of quality dive if you could map out the timeline of their bank balances 😉

Wot, no Vigier?

Starting with the courier

Interesting intonation setting change on the E string. Was the string affected by magnetic pull and different pickup heights or what was going on there?

If you're doing covers you should be able to move along if everyone is doing some homework - since the songs are already there and you have a recording to practice along to. If people won't do the homework, then you won't progress even if you rehearse every week.

Nice. Can you get a gold string tree and pickup selector switch too?

He's also utilising the rarely seen (these days, at least) tie-mute technique. I wonder where he got the tonesilk?