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Return of the phantom stranger - Rob Zombie

Liar - Rollins Band

I failed. I had perfectly decent gear at the start of the year. Everything I needed but I still bought two Fender P basses and a Darkglass vintage overdrive. I did sell a Sterling Ray34 and Epiphone Thunderbird vintage pro. I regret selling the Thunderbird, it sounded amazing. Its with the current Hawkwind bassist now so I'm sure I'll see it played properly at some point.

I did bring up muting later in the discussion. Both questions have been answered. I've got some good tips and have been trying some of the techniques suggested to see what works for me.

Global warming - Gojira

Sit on my face - Monty Python

The bit about dogs derrières was pretty much on topic. What is or isn't punk was very off topic.

This Trace Elliot AH1200 would do nicely. I loved the sound of my old GP12SMX head but it just wasn't powerful enough. 1200 Watts should get the job done

I didn't see this one coming. Faithless were huge during my clubbing years and his vocals were always so distinctive.

An old hippie who wrote songs for better musicians to cover.

They asked him not to sing "F**k you. I won't do what you tell me" What did they expect??? Politics in music goes at least back to the blues. Apparently Bob Dylans lyrics political but all I hear is vowels

Cain's wife Paula White is a crackpot of the highest order. Utterly insane. Claims to have walked around heaven with god and seen the spare parts department where you get replacements for limbs you lost in life when you get to heaven. Music and politics have been linked for a very long time. Some of the greatest artists have been very political.

50 million year trip - Kyuss

The end - The Doors

It's not trying the same thing if it's a different dog

How many times have you tried? Just because it didn't work once doesn't mean it'll never work.

I'm not sure quite how to describe our style. I guess sludge but a bit faster. Most of our riffs are "inspired by" (ripped off from) Sabbath but with rearranged rhythm or kind of chopped up a bit. Most of the time the bass and guitar are playing something very similar.

Creature of the wheel - White Zombie

Fist full of steel - Rage Against The Machine

Arise - Sepultura

I've been experimenting with techniques suggested here on a familiar song to try to work out what feels right and it seems to be thumb resting on either pickup or E string and just reaching across strings from there. Interestingly, elbow position seems to be important for me. Letting it drop back and bending the wrist doesn't seem to work for me, keeping the wrist straight seems to help my hand move across the strings better. A long strap seems to help.

Go point. Even NIB which is standard tuning, there's not a lot happening on the E string. That's a heavy tune as well

It's odd that skills shortages haven't lead to higher wages being offered. You'd think businesses would be fighting over the limited available workers to ensure they fill their vacancies

I believe companies should have to give inflation matching wage rises before they pay share dividends. The people who do the work to make the money should come first. Average wage rises over the last decade have been below inflation so cannot have caused wage spiral inflation. The current inflation is caused almost entirely by the 20% increase in energy costs and the fact that Britain now has the highest energy costs in the world.

Thanks for that. I'll have a listen