SteveXFR

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.

Not all punk is just root notes https://youtu.be/e5Wxn37Tt1Y There's plenty more like this.

I'm looking for a longer strap, something around 56" to 58" and because I play a Thunderbird it needs to be suede or something grippy to help with the neck dive that other thunderbird players say doesn't exist. Any suggestions?

Were there any punk bassists who didn't use a P or J bass?

Holy stinky poo I forgot about that song. That's awesome.

Two of the stranglers drink at my mates local where its over £5 a pint. That's not punk.

Have you ever tried down tuning that mandolin, putting on a ton of gain and smashing out some heavy riffs? We tried it with an electric violin left in a practice room and to be honest, it sounded terrible.

Journey To The End Of East Bay is my favourite Matt Freeman bass line. I've not managed to play it quite at full speed. If I slow it down to 95% it's fine but that last few bpm is just too fast.

I'll agree with that. I love Misfits but it's Doyles guitar parts and Danzigs vocals are what made them great. Doyles solo stuff is really good as well, It's pretty much a modern version of Misfits but a bit more metal

Good tip. I forgot how good Fat Mike's bass lines are. He's quite underrated I think.

I really love listening to all kinds of punk but although it's fun to play I struggle to find any really interesting punk bass lines. There are a few exceptions like Rancid and some of Anti Flags ska influenced songs. Are there any really great punk bass lines that really stand out?

Ramonas played our local punk festival a couple years ago and to be honest, I thought their original stuff was better than their Ramones covers.