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That's pretty decent. I love the Dingwall, I wouldn't have thought of one of them for a Sabbath tribute but it sounds great. My favourite Sabbath song as well.

I think it's just a case of scrolling through. There's a lovely Sterling Ray34 in there for £500 😉

I just bought quite a nice Mexican P bass for £400. I'd take that over this Squier any time and I have a similarly upgraded Squier P bass

Says super low action, photos show string a mile from the fretboard. All that talk of perfect setup is b*****s. One person's setup perfection is another person's setup hell. Plays any genre is my favourite bit. Everyone knows you need a jazz bass for jazz, a Dingwall for metal, a Rickenbacker for indie, a precision for funk and anything out of a skip for punk.

I agree. He's incredibly talented but I wonder how he'd actually get on in a band where its not just about him. Would he know where to leave space? Could he hold solid timing and pick every note consistently like Adam Devonshire in Idles? I'm fairly certain he'd be better than me in every aspect of playing though.

On a similar subject, a lot of people seem to assume that a professional bassist who plays a very simple part in all their songs has no talent. It may be that they have the ability to play something far more technical but the songs are better without it. I'm fairly sure someone like Jay from Bad Religion who has been playing simple root note parts for 42 years has learnt to play a few other things off the clock and is probably extremely competent.

Was the bass video Charles Bertrand (something like that)? His speciality seems to be videos with a title like "When you have 20 seconds to audition for Green Day" and then plays some million note a second tap and slap fest which is far as possible from their actual bass style.

There's power in a union - Billy Bragg I could have picked several other Bragg songs with union in the title. Bloody commie (not really)

Daly city train - Rancid

I-E-A-I-A-I-O - System Of A Down

No idea, they just show up. You don't really need decent singers. Anyone having a go is just fine. Even rappers or spoken word can work.

Do you cut from both sides toward the middle with this so it's a little smaller in the middle but the right size at the ends of the hole?

I've enjoyed many nights of metal in a nautical setting. It only seems polite to drink lots of rum in there. Who'd have thought a cargo hold could have decent sound?

Bristol is awesome for live music although doesn't quite fit the description of small town. There's a great selection of venue ranging from bars and pubs to old warehouses and an old cargo ship.

I've tried looking for reamers but tapered ones only seem to go up to 12mm.

I've just bought some Wilkinson tuners to replace the original rubbish on my Squier p bass. The holes are currently 12mm and I need to drill them out to 18mm. What would be the best tool for this job? I'm guessing it's not just a standard HSS bit

I live in Frome, Somerset. There's a great live music scene here. Quite a few little blues, jazz and folk jam groups. There's a pretty lively punk scene kind of lead by Far Cue and Frenzy who have been going decades. We have a good number of bars and pubs with regular live music nights. The local senior school has an awesome music department which is turning out some excellent musicians and putting them on stages infront of good size audiences to get them performance experience. We also have the Cheese & Grain, a venue which has everything from concerts for the local school and local bands to a punk festival and slightly more well known acts such as Airborne, The Stranglers, The Damned, Skindred, Frank Turner, Paul McCartney and Foo Fighters. Not bad for a small Somerset town.

Napalm Death seem like an odd support act for Volbeat. I imagine the Napalm fans will leave at the end of their set just as the Volbeat fans arrive

A friend of mine has worked with them and said they're a great bunch of people. No ego at all. He has many tales of the weird behaviour and unpleasant egos of musicians.

Music for people who don't like music will always sell more than challenging music. That's why Coldplay, Nickelback and Imagine Dragons sell so many records, it's background music rather than music to listen to.

Geezer Butler. His sound probably influenced most stoner and doom bassists. I still can't play like him. Maybe one day.

All groups (including punks) who claim to be individuals all seem to look the same and behave the same. They're probably less individual than the normies

Grade 2 are an excellent and quite angry punk band from the Isle Of White

They're a local band from Westbury in Wiltshire. They put on a decent show. Proper old fashioned punk rock

I love Idles. Incredible live performances, when they leave the stage you know they've given you everything they had. It's an hour and a half of anger, aggression, love, hate, noise and pure energy. Their bassist, Dev may not play anything fancy but he's a human metronome.