Doctor J

Until Kreator, Sodom and Destruction came along 😁

The same Lars Ulrich who spent years denying Metallica were ever a thrash band? 😉

I would argue Overkill (the song) isn't thrash. Thrash was that fast, hardcore-derived beat, combined with metal riffs, rather than punk-type chord progressions - at least that's what it was back in the 80's, before the term got diluted by lazy journalists to describe the output of a cluster of bands rather than a style of music. It was never the type of double-bass drumming in Overkill. Bear in mind the geography - thrash was pioneered in California, the home of hardcore punk and those early thrash bands were most definitely exposed to it. You combine that fast beat with the riffs of the likes of Judas Priest, Maiden, Motorhead, Venom and NWOBHM and you get thrash. Singling any of them out for individual credit is quite wrong, in my opinion. Thrash examples: https://youtu.be/9MsiHRPiXCI?t=107 https://youtu.be/TnRZhLRv6eM?t=30 https://youtu.be/xeK1E1HaMdY?t=52 https://youtu.be/iSHsNbhQkw0?t=15 https://youtu.be/2GNt4UGa4tg?t=7 https://youtu.be/c0VkXJjH-uA?t=18 https://youtu.be/AeififDPVCw?t=3 https://youtu.be/YmWEP6pPzgg?t=30 https://youtu.be/LtaH2yllusU?t=12 https://youtu.be/Hf__tRy0g10?t=74 https://youtu.be/T5SKqEE2U-g?t=4 https://youtu.be/1v6LC6ZsRjo?t=74 https://youtu.be/ASFfYKqJWHA?t=27

You might say that doesn't... bode well for the new poster 🤔 I'm so sorry, so very sorry!

Too funky

This foxy Blade B4 which got even foxier when I installed a Sadowsky preamp. I really want to play this thing fully cranked.

That's a foxy SR, congratulations. I have an 89 SR800LE too, wonderful basses.

There is a glaring national omission in Devin Townsend's tour schedule next year., even though the gap after the first date is there for a reason. I'm guessing there are still some logistical hurdles to be overcome before he can announce any UK dates?

The early hoo-haa over them was very funny. The demo got a lot of kvlt interest and they released a 7" for Elisabeth, I think. Once they started getting popular and the pop sensibilities started to shine through, the kvlt elite started having a meltdown. I saw a video of one chap burning his copy of the 7" 😂 What a plonker. Anyway, when I think heavy, I usually think this album. Heavy as a very heavy thing.

Just as well he didn't call it 'bad', I suppose 😁

Whatever the details are, calling it mint isn't exactly accurate.

They were plagiarised and settled out of court

If you like the feel of it, why not just try a different pickup and/or different electronics?

Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein? Maybe they got the idea from the UK's points tally at the Eurovision? Too soon? 😉

Or you could just buy a good bass and spend the rest on the mother of all two-week benders in Vegas? 😀

It puts the oj in mojo!

SHOUTY words make the WORLD a sadder PLACE!

Just flicking through some recent purchases, here is some good, heavy stuff from 2021

Low pitched cowbell, quite high in the mix. Since my ear is really tuned to bass, I usually record a bass track mimicking the click to help me stay listening to it.

I grew up in the thrash era and loved death metal when it came along. The mid to late 90's were a bit of a taste wasteland for what became popular in metal, so spent much of it exploring doom and stoner, all good. I dig very slow, very heavy stuff a lot. I can take gruff vocals as long as there is some character and nuance to it. I don't like someone just shouting loudly, it does nothing for me. Some dynamics are a must. Relentless screaming, relentless blasts or relentless double bass drums are just shite from a musical level and that's the border for me. I've yet to hear black metal I liked, too. I mean the Norwegian stuff and the countless clones which continue to follow. Venom and Celtic Frost are the good stuff.

I've just put a set of 135 to 65 strings on a 35" scale Yamaha TRB and tuned it BEAD with a drop tuner to give me low A on tap.

They could call themselves The Great Pretenders and enjoy the ire when punters figure out there won't be a Fauxddie Mercury

If this were asked on another forum, I suspect the answer might be a Leo of bassists On youtube with an annoying penchant for cliché it would be a groove of bassists However, I would go with a van of bassists

Don't. I tried them before and found them utterly useless. A very expensive lesson learned as I ended up buying a replacement Elixir set a couple of weeks later. Elixir own the patent for coating the string as a wound whole, the coating is applied to the finished string which is what stops your biocrud getting into the winds of the string. The crud in the winds is what makes strings sound lifeless. Every other manufacturer, as far as I am aware, coats the outer wrap before it is wound onto the string which is, if not entirely useless, let's say usefully limited. It doesn't stop your finger gick getting into the string like the Elixirs do.