Cliff Edge

It’s guitarworld. Don’t expect too much.

Plectrums not allowed, and no hitting below B.

The only thing a Fender P Bass needs to be more or less perfect, is a Jazz bass neck. There, I’ve said it.

I love the way some threads on here gently slide from serious to frivolous within a couple of pages.

As the actress said to the bishop.

Why not? Music is a kind of religion to many. Call it Christian if you like but that’s a bit exclusive and certain other religions are already a bit jumpy.

For Religious Punk a cheap pair of sandals is essential along with a sanctimonious grin. Oh and any old bass and amp you find in Cash Converters will polish the image just fine.

I did this on my 2004 Korean SR900 on which I have installed Nordstrand Big Singles. It didn’t work. However the Big Singles are a major improvement over the Bart MK1’s even with the original preamp.

Very difficult to find music no-one enjoys. Scottish and Irish folk music is certainly not universally appreciated (ducks). And there’s anything Morris dancers jig about to.

Interesting piece, thanks for that, but it fails to come up with a definite answer. All the suspects, music critics, never really liked the music, describing it in various ways as a load of over loud rubbish. Bangs review of the Black Sabbath album though, is hilarious.

Heavy metal thunder refers to motor cycles, not a music genre. Some people consider the song the first heavy metal song but this is not likely as it was written as a ballad. Steppenwolf just upped the tempo and changed some lyrics. And they were not a heavy metal band either. But who originally applied the phrase to a music genre or a band?

Depends on your definition of classic. It’s of its time, and it’s certainly not heavy metal in the recognised sense. And I’ve often wondered who comes up with these definitions. Why Heavy Metal ferinstance? Was it some jobbing scribbler on the NME?

Slightly off topic, I wasted an evening at a Mavericks concert in London. I couldn’t see where the high harmonies were coming from as the bass player and drummer were obviously not the source. I moved across to the side of the.auditorium (standing only) and saw keyboard player Jerry Dale McFadden hidden just off the side of the stage supplying backing vocals. At that time the band was still officially a trio.

What are your favourite settings on the BDDI Curious to know what sounds players get out of it and are any other effects/pedals used to enhance the results.

Wanton vandalism. I foolishly sold a fine old Japanese Aria Pro II to a friend who created a similar piece of art when he realised he could never learn how to play it. Bastard.

He rarely used a pick, but when he did it is said it was a tooth pulled from the body of Marie Laveau. Others say he just pinched whatever was available from a nearby guitar player.

You’re being far too serious for this forum.

Not going anywhere. The thought just came to me while listening to the radio and wondered if anyone else had similar thoughts.

According to a source familiar with the subject, there was no foam on the beer. Jamerson had a beer roady who slurped the foam off the top before passing the glass over. His preference for Yorkshire Pale Ale is strangely attributed to his addiction to Yorkshire tea and Betty’s tea cakes with strawberry jam.

If you had been the session bassist during recording of a well known song. Would you have played it differently? This question often occurs to me when I hear distinctive and sometimes complex bass lines on pop and rock songs and wonder “how did they come up with that?”

Now you’re being silly.

The Excitable Boy album is an absolute gem full of great songs. I was given a copy shortly after release and could not believe I had never heard of this guy before. His songs have been covered dozens of times .

Word on the street is it was bare floorboards. The vibration through his back was how he got ‘The Tone”.

There is a Spotify playlist “Originals that are less famous than the cover versions” Makes interesting listening.

I saw The Animals perform House of the Rising Sun just as their single was released to become a hit. Keen to hear the original I bought the Dylan album on a trip to New York shortly after. Only to lose the album shortly after returning. Around that time many English groups were covering obscure US artists songs. The Bobby Fuller Four version of I Fought The Law is almost identical to the original Crickets release recorded in 1959 when Sonny Curtis joined the band, shortly after the death of Buddy Holly.