Doctor J

Impressive. There are more people keen to express their dislike than you'd find in a Eurovision thread. Long live rock 'n' roll.

How do you EQ your amp? Is it too quiet if you bypass the EQ?

As mentioned above, it's a Jacaranda made in Italy.

DR Neons?

Is the pickup a digestive biscuit which was dunked just a little too long?

I wouldn't do it. If I'm not good enough or the right fit without botox then I won't be the right fit with it either.

By "many" I mean I didn't count but, from memory, I'd guess at least 60, probably more. There were 12 Ritters in the doorway, just to start off with 😂

I posted about him a little while back. Many of his basses are hanging on the walls in Zwick bar in Hamburg, too close to the junkies of Reeperbahn for comfort, including a large array of Ritters as you walk in the door all within touching distance. The wife and I were there in May. There are a few Alembics and other desirables further in along with plenty of spurious no-name and budget brand stuff. Worth a look all the same if you're in the city.

Eclectic Boogaloo Caustic Yoda 8-bit Byte Club Middle-Class Blues Destroyer Heute, Ich steuere die Jazzmaschine! Millennial Fun Falcon

Conservative Explorations in Jazz in E Minor with Former Prime Minister John Major

Jazzoo Johnny Hates Jazz Love Jazz Jazz 'n' Dave Jazz Mags Jazzette Tape Chaz Chandler's Jazz Handlers or... Erotic Jazz Chariot

The TM Stevens Streamer was yellow, green and red, I think

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This should probably be the first single, the nephews love to sing along

Californication is where they went from red hot to lukewarm and have been getting cooler, in the bad way, ever since. I've picked up the CDs as they've come out as I'm an eternal optimist but, apart from the odd song or two, they've lost the danger and the sexiness, it's a stream of weak sauce. Shame. BSSM is, as has been said more than once, their peak and an undeniable classic.

The only thing I'd be questioning is why you don't have ads out for a different guitarist. Toxic. Get rid.

Oooooh... messy

I think, in my entire life, and I'm 50 now, I've only gigged through four amps 🤣 Trace GP12 Peavey MKII Ashdown ABM300 GK MB500 The only one which disappointed me was the Peavey which farted and died during a gig so, to the OP, I say the other three.

I always keep them short, both right and left hand. Trim every week, no exception.

Is it a tone hole?

It probably gets harder as time goes on but I think it's ridiculous to say there's very little opportunity for 'new' music left. Just because you or I may not conceive it doesn't mean someone else can't. For every leader there are countless followers who don't have that level of talent and imagination. That's why we remember the likes of Metallica, the true creative forces stand out.

Metallica in 2024 would not be playing thrash, as Metallica were doing something new, not their interpretation of music of 40 years ago. However, a band bringing something new and high quality, to the same standard as Metallica were new and high quality in their time, will have a better chance of standing out in this day and age than a band ploughing a 40 year old trough.

But that's my entire point, thrash is a 40 year old music form. It's been done as well as it's ever going to be done. New new music has a better chance of standing out and succeeding as it is creating its own market, genre, audience, whatever you want to call it. It's not another fish in a pond which has been filling up for 40 years. Metallica brought something new as well as something very high quality. A new thrash band might be high quality but they are not bringing new music, therefore it stands to reason they are less likely to succeed in this day and age. A band who create a sound of their own have a better chance of standing out, just as Metallica did. A band needs to not conform to thrash and its 40 year old template to stand out.

And perhaps you're missing mine too. You mention the amount of music out there and you're right, but it's worth bearing in mind that new bands aren't just in competition with the other new bands, they're also in competition with everything which has gone before, such is the current streaming age. If you're playing music of a bygone age, you're putting yourself in competition with those who created the genre in the first place too and you're unlikely to be that good if you're operating within parameters created by someone else and not creating your own unlimited artistic expression. Why would I ever listen to a new thrash band playing their interpretation of Master of Puppets or Reign in Blood when I can just listen to Master of Puppets and Reign in Blood? If a new band came along of high quality who were doing something actually new, I would think it might stand a better chance of standing out and reaching an audience than a regurgitation of something which already exists with a 40 year catalogue of releases to compete against. In a nutshell, by creating something new, you reduce the amount of direct competition. That's what Metallica did in the 80's. That's what Korn, for example, did in the 90's. Would a band bringing something as new and as good as what Metallica brought in the 80's stand out today? I'd say yes. More so than a band in competition with the past.