SteveXFR

I like your idea. I could put the cab next to my old neighbours house. Revenge for his ultra loud tv and open windows every evening

They are a great band but I actually enjoyed their original stuff more than their Ramones covers.

High sales rarely mean good music. Just as Jedward, Spice Girls, Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer

My wife sends out several parcels a day with Hermes and not had a single problem. It probably helps that our local driver is pretty decent.

Paul McCartney and the Frog Chorus, by far his best known solo record. Nothing like the rest of his music. It was a pile of toss while the rest of his solo records were complete and utter toss.

Well I went for Stinkfist. Not too tricky at all. A couple odd rhythms but generally not difficult and really good to play. Schism next I think.

Im rebuilding my garage and intend to sound proof it. Trying to use as much reclaimed material as possible though and getting held up with the windows. It'll be good when finished My neighbours are part deaf but even with the super thick 1920's walls it still rattles their light fittings. They'll never complain but I don't like to push it.

I've just changed from a 1mm pick to 0.6mm Tortex. Im really liking the extra flex in it. I started out with a 3mm Dunlop stubby and keep going lighter.

I asked because I play in an original metal band and because we don't have a lot of material we're going to play a couple less well known covers by Eyehategod and Down but because we have only one guitar Im thinking we'll need to make some changes, I might play a mix of bass and rhythm parts

When learning covers do you try to copy the original exactly or do you sometimes simplify or change or add bits?

Not too recent then! I found them through a tutorial by Beholden To The Riff on YouTube. He usually specialises in doom metal but did a tutorial on this song.

I've been learning Peaches by Stranglers and the most difficult bit is remembering where the choruses come in. Each verse is a different length and there's no drum fill or lyrics as a cue for the chorus. The video is excellent though.

Not sure how recent it is but I only heard it for the first time a couple of weeks ago.

I absolutely love Killing Joke, right from their really early stuff up to their latest album. I think they've covered a few genres including punk, new wave, metal and industrial. I've never got on well with playing their bass lines, I think Youth's bass has always been very repetitive and mostly very simple. Very effective but not so much fun to play.

The theory should work but the volume doesn't quite fade out at minimum, it gets to a point then cuts out completely and that point is pretty loud with the gain cranked.

Tube preamp, solid state power amp

Is there anything i can put between my amp and cab to cut volume so I can run the amp load enough to sound good without deafening the neighbours?

I have the olderTerror Bass 500 without the clean switch. With the gain turned down it never really gets clean and it sounds a bit limp at lower gain settings. I believe the newer Terror bass is possible to get a good clean tone. Fortunately I play loads of punk and metal so it's great for me.

Hold on, Malcolm McLaren invented punk (or so he claims) and Ramones pre dated the Sex Pistols therefore they cannot be punk. Unless of course Malcolm McLaren was full of stinky poo.

Ramones were the first band ever to featured in Punk magazine which was the origin of the name of the genre so I can't really argue with that. Their music was just simple rock songs played fast and then twice as fast again live.

Black Flag, Stooges, Bad Brains, Misfits, Circle Jerks, Fear. Definitely all punk. RHCP were never punk. Neither were Green Day

Punk has always had a heavy side, even in the early days, Black Flag and Bad Brains started before punk had kicked off in Britain and some of the Sooges stuff was close to hardcore in the early 70s. British punk was maybe a bit more melodic than US punk

Mine is a year old Epiphone so the strap button in on the back of the neck. It's still got a massive head stock with tuning machines which look pretty heavy so neck dive is still a thing but not as severe as older Gibsons.

I have got a vegan strap, the Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein signature strap by Heavy Leather. It's not great material and doesn't taste good.

They have some nice looking options. It's a shame those crazy Germans have used their own language instead of the Queens English. I'm sure Google translate will give me a suitably ropey translation.