Doctor J

No love for Cathedral?

Only Jasper Carrott is real!

...where all the instruments are blue with a chrome scratchplate because, let's be honest, the magic disappeared once that bass got painted white with the WHUFC logo 😂

Keep the cover, just whip the pickup out, and put a strat hotrail pickup in there, wired in series. That'll make it growl.

Practice playing. Every type of bass has been used for all those styles of music. The difference is the fellow or lady playing the thing. You can play all of that music on pretty much any reasonable quality bass. By reasonable bass, I mean something you can plug into a DI and it sounds good without any polishing on a desk, no amp, no effects, no EQ tweaks. Everything else is fluff. It's fun but it's still fluff. A decent player and any decent bass and you're good to go.

A Levinson Blade and a Sadowsky onboard pre.

If the embarrassment of bandmates on-stage could be used as fuel, Di'Anno's hired hands could probably power a medium-sized city.

Levinson Blade have had them since the 80's. I think EBMM started using them late 80's/early 90's, too.

Surely the important question is why would you have a foot in either of those places?

There's no point sitting on stuff you're not going to use. If you're more into the recording side now, put the money into that. You might be able to get the hardware you want by trading, rather than selling and buying.

No, I agree, it's a dreadful mix. The drums, in particular, are dull and lifeless. There's a bit more guitar than usual, which is a nice change, but once again they've put out something which sounds like a rough demo. It's not as if Shirley can't do good mixes. It almost as if when has Harris perched on his shoulder, he's guided towards this horrible, flat sounding mixes. It's another area where they peaked with SSOASS. NPFTD and FOTD weren't too bad, if nothing special, and then poor Blaze got lumped with these awful mixes which, BNW aside, have become the band's trademark ever since.

New Maiden. Nothing here that will make me change my mind that everything after SSOASS is a pale shadow of went before it, sadly.

It's not much, but it's a start https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57838473

I had an Aria Pro II XRB series. I learned how to do setups on it, then fret levels, then defretting, then refretting, then chiselling out a hole and adding a big MB pickup between the neck and the P pickup and running it as V-V-V-T, then frankensteining another neck onto it, then sold it. Great bass 😁

Yeah, solid player, great singer, always comes across as a genuine guy who just loves playing music.

The Alvarez Dana bass looks like something Betty would have endorsed rather than Lita, however

I thought they looked cool, always wanted one

Alvarez

Not if you grew up in the 80's on this side of the Atlantic

Which, itself, was heavily inspired by the headless Steinberger GM

Smashing Pumpkins - Cyr Finally got around to picking this up. Corgan does an album of 80's synth-pop, 20 songs of it. While each song by itself isn't too bad, it gets crushingly repetitive after a while. Having Chamberlin in your band and having him play straight fours on an electric kit or, worse, replacing him altogether with a poxy drum machine, is close to unforgivable. I hope this is Corgan's mid-life crisis out of the way. Weak sauce.

I loved these but I think they stopped before the point Bruce left, which is a shame because the Blaze years would be interesting for many reasons. Band members who left and then came back seems to be a very hard thing to talk about. The Anthrax story currently coming out on youtube is at such a point. Spitz and Belladonna coming back (temporarily) should be the next episode. Having been to one of those gigs you could see they weren't getting along, particularly with Spitz. Then comes Dan Nelson 😂 The less successful Maiden years would be an interesting thing to cover, too.

The two-piece Deviser bridge. Beautifully designed, superbly engineered, entirely solid.

This guy might