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Lets not mention the 'tache......

You know what, it's very reminiscent of Californication to my ears, but I quite like it, great to see John playing again and he has THAT guitar tone going on still. Nice work by Flea as usual, looks like he's playing the jazz in the video. Much better than I'd feared !!!!

My sympathies, I wrecked my back in my early twenties ( 52 now !!) and had to try various solutions, I found a normal decent but wide strap helped a lot, but also swapped from playing a Washburn 5 string to a shorter scale bass. I was playing metal, so everything was down the far end of the fretboard, and the extreme reaching of my left hand was causing a lot of the fatigue. Might be worth a try, but I'm well aware that everyone has their own private problems with back pain. Good luck!!

The MB 5 I have has a very scooped active jazz type sound, it's the natural finish one, for the 90's power metal band I was in it was just the ticket, but if you didn't want that sound then it couldn't really do anything else to be fair

Always loved the 90's Washburn headstocks, just pointy enough but with a nod to the classics too. I still have the 5 string version of this.

Watched Sky Arts last night (I assume they repeat these things quite a bit) and they had Ozzy Ozbourne live from Budokan. Ozzy was his 'usual' self, but the band was Zakk Wylde on guitar, Puffy Bordin on drums, and Robert Trujillo on bass. The rhythm section was absolute metal heaven

My favourite album of the year is Tremonti's new one Marching in Time. Honourable mention to Mammoth WVH and Grinder Blues, both great bands with great albums.

Well said, great post. I was a vinyl guy in my teens ( '82-'90 ) but I usually put my albums onto tape because obviously you needed to for the car. One of the greatest days of my life was when I got an in car CD player ( that didn't jump and skip!!!!!) , people take that for granted but it seemed to take forever for the technology to get that right 😆😆 Ive enjoyed using all the different media over the years, all have pluses and minuses, but boy are we lucky to live at a time when we have such a great choice of format. ENJOY the music, people.

The article claims that the swamp ash is from the Fender factory. Who knows . Smoke and mirrors. Big money too 😬 (I do kind of like the Marshall fridge though)

Only available in sunburst. Assumedly with a tort tone arm as an add on...??? 😆😆 https://www.whathifi.com/news/mofi-and-fender-have-teamed-up-for-this-gorgeous-limited-edition-turntable

My old covers band used to open the set with this, it's great fun to play, up tempo but fairly easy, great to 'warm up' yourself, and usually went down well.

Disclaimer: I did have to put the back seats down, However, when in my covers band I managed to fit a TC Electronic 4x10, and 2x12 cabs, two basses in their cases, a TC BH500 head in its flight case, a backpack full of cables and stuff..........in an original Ford Ka.

I think this is the tuning that Alice in Chains have used for a lot of their darker work, Them Bones and most of Dirt album, etc, and I've only ever seen (Mike Starr initially) Mike Inez use four string Warwick / Spector type basses tuned down, assumedly with chunky strings. And they've always sounded great 🤘🤘🤘

Agreed, I was pulled into the Maiden family in '83 so my awakening was Number of the Beast/ Piece of Mind, then Powerslave came out soon after. I quite like the new albums, there are a couple of beauties on each IMO, and Senjutsu, ( after only one full listen TBH) seems to fit this pattern, a couple of tracks left me cold, a couple made me go "oooooooh!!!" , and a couple made me go "yeeeeeeaaaaaah". The fact that they're still putting out new music some 40-ish years later is a blessing, who ever would have thought this possible back in the eighties...???

Very late to this thread. I am a now retired metal bassist, played in original metal band for 15 years or so, from '88, we were probably in our 'prime' around '92 !!!!😆😆 We were attempting to be Metallica meets Kings X meets Alice in Chains, and thus managed to get nowhere near any of these. I exclusively used a Washburn MB5 bass into a Hartke 350 watt head into a Peavey 4x10 ( which weighed more than my car), and it was a great sound!!! When we reformed I used a Warwick Corvette, now stupidly sold. Now I spend my days noodling on blues rock originals at home with the guitarist from the aforementioned band, mostly on a recently acquired Ibanez mezzo bass into a Fender rumble 40, having done my time in a dad rock covers band.....the soul sapping years.....😆😆 Anyway, photos...., the beast.. and the new guy

Dan Reed posted that when the Network opened for the Stones in 1990, Charlie had his own sewing machine on tour and repaired his own suits on tour. That's pretty classy. RIP Charle Watts

Back in my gigging days ( 5/6 years ago) I had the twin of this bass, I had the small Y hipshot tuners on it and they made a big difference, the bass balanced perfectly and the weight saving was significant. Nice looking bridge too, I swapped out the little height screws with some from another bridge so they didn't rake the flesh from my hands 👍👍👍

Personally I really enjoy Slash's solo stuff with Myles Kennedy singing, sure it's 'mainstream' rock, but for me it's where Slash's strengths lie nowadays. And Myles can belt out the GnR stuff live too. Didnt much enjoy this new effort from GnR myself.

To be honest I hoped there'd be less long tracks on this album compared to BoS, but Bruce says there's some different styles going on so fingers crossed. Countdown has begun.

EXACTLY THIS!!!!! I think a lot of music fans have that one band that transcend 'just' being music, there's a connection because of your age and what you were going through, and that stays with you for life. They're still the one band that I get genuinely excited about a new release from.

To my ( and my friends) ears there was a level of maturity and adventure in Wasted Years that Maiden had only shown glimpses of before, to be fair we were all male, all aged 16/17 when Wasted Years came out, so we were all fairly immature guys who loved their metal, but metal, generally, meant 'anger', power, lyrics about ancient figures, or warriors, or drinking, and riffs generally were hard, fast and powerful. WY came along with its carefully picked intro, it's'futuristic' guitar sound, melancholy reflective lyrics and to us, a new side of Maiden emerged. I'm sure other people felt quite differently and this is all tosh but it's a time I remember fondly. Loved that album too.

I saw Di'anno play Basildon ( which should tell you a lot) a few years back, and he was randomly offering out people in the crowd, just for being there. Bizarre. And he was terrible. Loved those first two albums though. Not sure how the band would have evolved had they kept him, I think they'd be a very different beast (🤘) today, if they'd survived.

I found this too, YouTube mix is horrible, especially the vocals to my ears, on Apple music it sounds very good to me, the guitar mix is very clear you can hear all the different guitar lines.

Maiden fan since '83 here, I mean for years around that time they were pretty much my go to albums on a daily basis. Personally I really like the new single, it's a little more 'proggy' than their early stuff, but as I've aged I prefer that side of the band, I'm about the only person on planet Earth who prefers Final Frontier album to Book of Souls ( which I found to be a real slog). This new one reminds me of when Wasted Years was released as first single from Somewhere in Time, ooooh it's different. True, but I'm finding the new one to be a real grower, as was WY. Just my tuppence worth. Up the Irons 🤘🤘👍👍