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Does Steve Harris play a MIM Fender?

One of the biggest changes between the older 425/1025 generation and the current 435/P35 range of BBs seems to be in the character of the pickups. Finding enough good demos of the various models on YouTube that you can get a sense of the difference takes a while, but can be done. In a nutshell the current models seem more Fender-ish, less 80s Yamaha, and thus perhaps less likely to offer you something new. But that rather depends on what yr existing Ps and PJs are iirc my ears were guided back in the autumn by a thorough post by @dave_bass5 so it's him you'll be wanting to take notice of, not me.

As well as the 235 and 435, have you looked into the 425? It character might be a little further away from your existing PJ basses than the 235 and 435 would be. I think a used one might be findable at £350. My 424 was £300 and has totally outcompeted my TRBX604 which cost twice as much, the stronger tonal character enough to make up for the thicker neck, the heavier body, the fewer frets and the less pretty wood.

The equivalent to never taking a car out of the garage would be never taking the bass out of its case.

This video made me wonder, is there a jazz cover of Megadeth's Hangar 18 on YouTube? And the answer is, yes there is, and it's far worse. Curiosity has murdered this puddytat 😵

Just to show that I'm not merely being affronted by someone's meddling, here's Enter Sandman taken even further from its original genre, but still with (a reading of) its meaning intact.

What's the point of a jazz cover that drains the song of all its emotional content?

White TRBX505 for sale

"'Cause I know the roots that the rap is from"

Are there only 9 frets - is it all just lined fretless from there up?

Will someone anyone please take advantage of this amazing bargain so I dont crumble and buy a bass I've really no need for? 😅 That advert has been haunting me, and I keep coming up with terrible excuses for buying it, (eg it would be good to have a cheap j neck strung with flats for when I want to take it easy)

Since August I've been learning on a Yamaha TRBX - the thin neck has been very easy going while my hand built up stamina. I'm around the same height, and have found the whole instrument very comfortable to play. I had high expectations of build quality and value for money from Yamaha and have not been disappointed. Here's the TRBX304 model Red TRBX304 at Yamaha's London shop

I'm not going to dispute that he wrote plenty of trite stuff, but "at best"....? For No One, Paperback Writer, Got To Get You Into My Life, Drive My Car, I'm Looking Through You, Things We Said Today, Blackbird..... (At the other end of his spectrum, I sometimes wonder if making John Lennon play over a 100 takes of Ob La Di Ob La Da was some kind of surrealist / provocateur performance art, the song itself merely the means to the end?)

"The renowned German violin virtuoso, Christian Tetzlaff, had this to say in an article from the New York Times (April 28, 2000) written by Anthony Tommasini: Last year, Mr. Tetzlaff did something that will either horrify or inspire other violinists: he traded in the Stradivarius he had on loan, valued at $2 million, for a new violin built by Peter Greiner, a German maker his own age, which cost him about $17,000. What possessed him? “The new violin is really terrific, with a full beautiful sound that is still able to fight the orchestras,” he said. “The Strad I had couldn’t.” Unlike many violinists, Mr. Tetzlaff believes that some of the qualities of the renowned instruments made by Stradivari and Guarneri are mythological. “There are big differences between Strads, as big as between the colors red and blue,” he said. “There are many Strads that are not really that good-sounding.” But when violinists touch them, he explained, charmed by the mystique, they see the disadvantages as characteristics for which they must simply learn to compensate. “But I have an instrument that I feel has no disadvantages,” he said. “When I first tried it out in Toronto, I told nobody about it. Everyone assumed it was my Strad.” Young violinists, who have been programmed to believe that the only fine violins are old, rare and Italian, should take heart. “There is no doubt about the quality of a good number of incredible Strads,” he said. “But what’s strange is that many people look for Italian instruments of doubtful quality in the range of one or two hundred thousand dollars, which is a lot of money and very little value.”" (I remembered this from long ago because CT is my favourite violinist, and a very well-rounded musician - he doesn't just play the big romantic concertos)

Just read them. I reckon it was rewritten, having originally been about colonic irrigation.

When it first arrived, what made the violin more useful than similar instruments was that it could play simple dance music at an audible volume: its point is to be loud. Mr Strad came at a more Ken Smith-like stage of its evolution, a long time after the violin's Leo Fender had done his job.

Noel Gallagher is quite happy to explain how much of an influence Slade was, but no one seems to take a blind bit of notice that.

E we eject them

To quote the great Adam Hussain, "Boom, boom, boom, shake the room / Can't remember the words, but I can hum the ------- tune."

Nothing like not really clocking the bassline to tell you how good it is

Will I be expelled from BassChat if I admit that I usually skip that track when listening to Kill 'Em All ?

I can't find a YouTube clip of it with the lyrics

When I got to know this song (a B-side collected on the cassette version the Standing On A Beach singles compilation iirc) I didn't have a clue what it was about. Most of a lifetime later, a YouTube comment explained it to me. To be fair, dentistry isn't typical rock music subject matter..... ....or is it? Perhaps there plenty of other songs on this theme which have similarly escaped my notice?

Here's a rather more useful review