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I'm trying to push myself with some more tricky covers on the 5 string and trying to find interesting metal songs originally played on a 5. Any suggestions?

Adele, her entire back catalogue. Every song seems to be about getting dumped. Not a single song about cooking a full English or having a booze fueled horizontal dancing session after a night out. Maybe there's a link there.

Last night I saw New Model Army in Bristol. Excellent performance. The bassist appears to have an unusual picking technique, I've not seen anyone else picking that close to the bridge.

Maxwell Murders by Rancid The greatest ever punk bass line

Commodore Business Machines. They were the future of electric computer technology. Dead to me now. Dead

I saw them in Bristol several years ago. That's kind of their thing. Loads of smoke and even less chords than Status Quo. I'm not sure they're really doom, it's more like experimental soundscape type stuff.

British Leyland are dead to me.

I've been using the songsterr android app for occasionally incorrect tabs but recently it's stopped scrolling the tab as it plays. Any ideas what I might have done wrong?

Fan frets do look weird but they do actually have a purpose. Super low tunings with decent string tension without resorting to excessively thick strings. I'm not sure they'll be much use outside of metal.

I've not tried one but the sound isn't right for me so even if they feel incredible, I still wouldn't want one. I'd rather a Dingwall Combustion which is considerably cheaper

Single cut Foderas. They are incredibly ugly and don't sound too special but at least they're incredibly expensive.

Lenny Kravitz has a terrible song with no bass and Kid Rock has a song with the guitar solo in the wrong key. Train are just terrible but once decided to re-record a Led Zeppelin album in full note for note. That did not need to be done.

That's quite a claim. I've heard Kid Rock, Lenny Kravitz and Train on planet rock

GCSE music lessons at school put me off learning more. It only covered jazz and classical. Anything else was "not real music". Our music teacher was very old and wouldn't even acknowledge anything modern.

My daughter keeps telling me I need to learn some Muse (not sure I need to) so I'm having a crack at Bliss. It's a cheeky little number, I'll get there

I am quite jealous. I've never seen them

We saw a Tool tribute band called Tool Shed. I was rather sceptical but a mates band was supporting so we went. Tool Shed are awesome, the bassist was absolutely dead on with tone and playing but the drummer was absolutely incredible. That dudes not normal. The guitarist and singers were awesome as well but for me it was all about the rhythm section. I'll definitely see them again.

Monster Truck getting run over by a Toyota Rav 4 really got me in the funny bone. Weezer was made better by it being one of his favourite bands

The real thing - Faith No More

One I came across recently is KDH and it seems all he does is moan about stuff, mostly Chapman guitars, he really likes to winge about them. A much better one I actually enjoy is Pat Finnerty. He's kind of the anti Beato with his What Makes This Song Stink videos. The hour long video to find the worst Lenny Kravitz song is my particular favourite. Lots of comedy and weird distractions.

Yes but mostly because I played with a drummer who needed many cymbals and toms and a guitarist who had such enormous amounts of distortion he would always end up with feedback problems and have a melt down

The damaged one would be tempting but I think it's £100 over priced.

I regularly look for another Zephyr but they rarely come up for sale

I had a Zephyr. It was a genuinely really nice bass. At least as nice as MIM Fenders that I've owned. Neck through and through body stringing and really decent hardware and really nicely put together and I picked it up for £180. Someone at a jam session offered me £400 so I let him take it but regret letting it go now.