SteveXFR

I would describe it as beautifully disgusting

I nearly forgot Ayes Hassan of Savages. Nasty bass tone and some of the very best, most creative post punk bass

There's loads of great female bassists. Paz Lenchantin, Kim Deal and Sean Yseult are some of my favourites. My own offspring is a fairly handy bassist, certainly better than me which isn't particularly impressive. Her school band currently have Hysteria by Muse and Orion by Metallica in their set.

My Generation - The Who Well that was the obvious choice

Beat it - Michael Jackson

Whole of the moon - The Waterboys

That G&L headstock is completely unacceptable

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I should have mentioned I have already got a Squier affinity P bass. I like the neck and string spacing. I didn't like the stock pickups (replaced with Tonerider and Kl0gon wiring) it now sounds OK but lacks the p bass snarl. Some of my favourite P bass tones are Matt Freeman of Rancid and Jay Bentley of Bad Religion and JJ Burnell (Peaches specifically)

I forgot to mention I'm buying used so a lot of the options aren't current models. I know some shops sell used instruments but I don't know of any around here other than Bath Rare & Vintage guitars who don't sell instruments in my price range (up to £1200)

I've decided it's time to buy a p bass so started looking this morning and it seems one doesn't just buy a p bass, there's an awful lot of options. In my budget I've got a choice of US, Mexican or Japanese then there's player, vintera, 62 reissue, lyte and Roger Waters signature or PJ. Where's a good guide to what's what with precision basses?

I wish. I didn't have the looks to get them and I've only got uglier as I've got older.

I now have half the number of basses I had this time last year. Quite tempted to buy a Mexican P bass if I find a cheap and ugly one. Takes me back to my dating days.

Have you tried bring nicer to them? Maybe if you give them some romance then they will.

Jonny Appleseed - NOFX

Sabbracadabra - Black Sabbath

Limp Bizkit ended up sounding like a parody of nu metal and now Fred Durst looks like this. He looks like his own grandfather

Apart from Audioslave and SOAD, all of those are awful. I'm no fan of the offspring but they were pop punk not metal.

I think that was far too early for nu metal plus I don't think any of them have come out as proud boys in the last few years which seems to be a nu metal thing.

It was definitely popular but it was a bad time for rock music in general. Grunge was finished, rap and techno were huge. Cheesy pop and especially 80's cheesy pop were enormous. I blame Fear Factory and Body Count, smash those two together and you've got every nu metal song.

I hope so. Nu metal was a bit of a creativity draught, there were about 500 songs all using the same two note riff.

I'm a big metal fan, I love just about anything heavy but I keep reading thar nu metal is coming back and that to me was a low point in metal. I have never heard anyone say they miss Limp Bizkit or Crazy Town or Papa Roach. The few good bands to come out of the genre have moved on to something completely different now. There must have been some good stuff so where's the good bands I must have missed? Is anyone still playing old Korn or Limp Bizkit covers?

I'm definitely going to need a bigger board. I found this very good video

I think I'll check that out. Thanks

Some more details. I'll mostly be using it for the odd solo part so losing a little bottom end won't be a big problem. I'll be using an overdrive with it.