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Pop is dead as a genre its over. I dont hear one ounce of originality or melody, just random notes bolted together. Sorry if that will upset everyone who reads this, but there.

Nope. Day in day out we have "those who know better" telling all of us what we can and cannot read, for eg altering classic literature cause it doesn't "FIT" the WOKE agenda, as well as other stuff. Blimey, your not even allowed to be upset anymore in case you "hurt" someones feelings. Jeez..; what a woke nightmare we are all sinking into.

Sure some singers can generate lot of noise...shout if you will, Bon Jovi, Axel Rose Janis Joplin etc etc but I'm drawn to singers who have expansion...they open their mouths and the sound seems to fall out effortlessly. Blow Monkeys Dr Robert is one that comes to mind....not a huge range but a huge expansive tone. Paul Rogers too tho less so, and dont forget Stevie Wonder ...massive effortless range. Just some thoughts.

Easy. Anything P bass shaped with four strings. Was in the same position once re cabs. Got a call for a nice paying dep with 24 hrs to go but for some reason didn't have a cab...Drove to nearest store on route, found a well used Ashdown cab I think and arrived at venue with crowds settling on seats as I walk in the back door carrying this bloomin cab in its box which I sold a few weeks later.....What a faff.

Well done and good to hear you've sorted it. But just to say and I fully respect all opinions here., You dont really need to measure anything...you can set the strings by look, feel and how they sound. Adjusting the bridge saddles is very simple but what you MUST have is the correct tools for the work AND you must treat the ole trust rod with a lot of respect cause if u dont things can go south very quickly. Learn how to adjust it carefully and with great care and you'll find you'll be adjusting it on a regular basis without any probs. Just My 0.2$

Nice. I listen to this brilliant real organic musicianship and it only re-enforces my continuing thought that people today who make music have totaly lost their way. U see vids of young guys messing about with tech to get everything perfect (What does that even mean?)...and those mic things singers have to have...What does any of it add to the music.. Nothing, absolutely nothing. A great song is always gonna be great even recorded with an old tape recorder and a lapel mic. A crap tune is always crap irrespective of how many millions are spent on it in the studio.

I guess just about anything Motown and Philly...tons of very musical playing on so many tunes, from early Stevie to The Drifters...its darn good to play. Dont laugh but one tune I absolutely love playing is Andy Gibbs Everlasting Love.... Its packed with swing, groove and huge subtlety by brother Maurice..

I like TB its expansive and they talk about a lot of stuff but you have to be careful...Yanks have a weird way of responding to humour ...I've come unstuck a few times...especially waxing lyrical about my Squire P bass...haha.

Top tip for anyone in this situation. Always make it so that it's YOU auditioning them. Always worked for me. I would go to an audition and immediately start telling the others what's what. Most hate it and tell u to get lost, the ones that don't and enjoy the knowledge are my sort of people.

Man I had 40 yrs of this...where to begin. Guitarists are no diff to any other musician, there's good and not so good. Ur situation is doubly tricky cause two gits plus keys with a left hand pounding, the whole show is gonna sound like mud unless you can find guitarists who know when to back off and then know where to shine. Ive worked with ur setup and unless the gits know when to do this it will become a volume P!!!!!! contest real quick. You need competent sensitive musicians who ain't gonna play bar chords over everything and who know when to stop playing. Its probably the tallest order in getting a coherent multi instrument band together and it's not easy cause there simply are not that many competent guitarists in the pool. In all my years I've probably only played with a tiny handful of gits who can do this, and they could all read the dots. Best

Fav/best, same really. Jamerson, Ronnie Baker, Macca. And I kid u not a guy called Keith who used to play in my local scene many yrs ago. Sublime touch and tone.....probably my biggest influence.

And wasn't it great huh. Everything was just loose and free back then....I really miss it in todays overregulated risk averse environment. People took chances back then...sometimes a cab would fall on you and you were hurt, you might get electrocuted but your first thought wasn't to sue the dude who set it up or sold it to ya....no one cared..life was kinda free and real. I could rant for hrs about this, anyway thks for pointing it out.

I'm 18 in 1978 @ Prince Consort night club Isle of Wight, ...in a very dark basement full of older teen "females" who looked on us with utter contemp. Its that awful moment when the Disco stops and you start and sound awful and everyone walks away....haha, dont think I have ever experienced fear like it since and I think Deni Deni was the first tune we played.

Facebook has become a flippin hell hole, especially if your trying to sell small high value items. I currently have some camera stuff for sale and as soon as it was listed I started getting similiar...."plse send me your bank details, I'll give it to the courier and then we'll pay you"...What? Nope. Get lost.

Dance compilation from 1976. That ole long hot summer spawned some brilliant cheesy and very musical pop tunes....love it.

They've taken a raunchy tune what the woke lot today would be offended by and turned it into mush so as to be safe...which it isn't and should never be ...I give up.

Total urban myth. Steel becomes malleable at around 1800F, melts at 2500F. The best boiling can do is leech out the filth, which will may reduce the deadening affect of the KFC gunk and bogeys 🤪...Might possibly sound a bit brighter but the kinks are there for ever.

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Awful, sorry but someone has to say it. Their basically taking the Michael, its pretty disgraceful. This tune was written by a band with an image...the tune fitted the image with immense hutzpah and attitude and that's what the tune is......Thin Lizzy. Put it this way. Nobody messes up or, "has a go at re-arranging" classic pieces by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven or Chopin. Sorry but this type of woke nonsense (ie everyone should be allowed to do there thing) kinda rattles my sensibilities. It's not just this you hear it all the time on TV ads too....hideous autotuned/edited mash ups of fantastic old tunes. Ugh. No thanks.

Haha...fun thread. I've done some weird singy stuff over the years, probably the oddest was a three piece pub reggae type thing back in 81 when for some distant reason we ended up doing 'Forget Me Knots' too with muggins here doing the lead vox over that cool slap bassline.....I bet the whole thing sounded bloody awful. Happy days.

But that's the problem. Yes I'm sure their superb schooled musicians (my nephew is a brill guitarist) but guess what? Where else do you see superb "schooled" musicians? Yep, in orchestras playing the old old classics. Being a great musician has nothing at all to do with being an original artist.

Not my thing hence why I moved it on, but I bought one of the early Mex RW sunburst Jazz basses. The light weight gave it an amazing quality feel and the sound was very good. The one I would buy back tonite is my old 75 natural ash P bass. Totally original, lightweight and thunderous....should never have sold it.

How dare you tell 'ME' what to read. Who the hell do you think you are mate. I rest my case. Im done.

Ok, were talking music here which is appropriate but in this crazy age of cancel anything that you dont like..ie the current literary Jeeves and Wooster debacle for eg, where next to expand the discussion? Destroy and get rid of all Nazi history? Films, books, witness testimony...The Camps?? For goodness sake where does this cancel madness end. Its very wrong and very dangerous to erase history etc etc, and in that I include music too.

Sounds like u had fun...cool. But the age old, my stuffs better than urs? When Elvis Presley hit the stage with his jazzed up blues grooves, he started a juggernaut that for the next 40 yrs killed just about everything that had gone before. My point is. That Tsunami has run out of steam...The originality that he started has ended... and everything we hear now is just pastiche...Ha, even young kids now will acknowledge flippin ABBA or walk around wearing a Ramones T. TV ads aimed at 'young people' etc are full of old tunes. Who knows.