SteveXFR

Check out Billy Gould from Faith No More. I think he's one of the greats. What makes him particularly great to me is his judgement for when to keep it really simple but absolutely solid. His use of slap to accent parts and never get carried away with it is excellent. His pick tone is superb as well. Check out Midlife Crisis and From Out Of Nowhere Tim Commerford of Rage's ability to provide a funky groove behind rather chaotic guitar and vocals is excellent, he just brings the band together. Check out Renegades of Funk and Bulls on Parade Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath is just genius. His parts are often more complex than the guitar part. Check our NIB and Iron Man Cliff Burton of Metallica (up to Master of Puppets) was the master of making the bass the lead instrument. Check out Orion and Anesthesia (pulling teeth)

I'd like the option to downgrade or remove my badge. I have too much free time, not knowledge or talent.

Give it away - RHCP

Digging the Grave - Faith No More Twist the knife slowly - Nspalm Death Psalm 69 - Ministry Kill you tonight - Type O Negative

God is a DJ - Faithless

I, The Witchfinder - Electric Wizard

I really didn't get on with SBL. It's OK for the very basic stuff but after that I very quickly got very bored with the lack of variety in musical styles. Any video featuring Scott you can skip the first half of the video because it'll just be jazz noodling or talking about his morning. I preferred the Talking Bass lessons, great teachers and more musical variety.

Tokyo - White Lies

I've just stolen a bottle of T cut from my dad's garage. I'll report back with results (possibly a thick ear)

At that price range, I think I'd go used. In a years time you'll quite possibly either want to upgrade or maybe give up either way you'll probably lose half the cost of it. I'd look for a used Squier Jazz, Ibanez SR300, Sterling SUB Ray or Yamaha TRBX. I found a Jazz style (narrow) neck easier when starting out but now prefer something wider.

Surely their current attitude towards selling used instruments can't be good for their reputation

Judith - A Perfect Circle

Some say his garden is a cemetery for the rhythm section from each album.

Falling down - Muse

Isn't that a relic finishing tool?

Our toothpaste is collate whitening but my pickguard is black. Is there a blackening toothpaste?

Time to burn - Dio

The pick guard on my Ray35 stingray is covered in fine scratches and looks a bit rough. Is there a way to polish out the scratches and make it look good again? I don't like the idea of replacing throwing it in the bin to replace it.

There's a fine line between stoner and doom. That is quite doom. Very heavy

Back to school - Deftones

Any more of your cheek and I'll knock yer block off

My basses are all made in Indonesia and my amp and cabs are made in Britain. Two of my four effects pedals are made in Britain, one in France and one in China. I don't know where my picks are made.

I think I'm going to try an MXR 10 band. My preamp is great and I can set it's on board EQ for each of the two channels but when I set it to blend both channels it combines the EQ settings and doesn't sound quite right so I just want to be able to run an EQ pedal after it and just switch it on with the belnded channels.

Peaches - Presidents of the United States Of America Nearly 30 years on I still can't open a can of peaches without singing this song.

Sue them for the distress caused by the warning.