Musicman666

having a larger war chest just means you can pick from a wider selection of basses ...it doesn't mean you have to blow 1500 quid for the sake of blowing it but generally the more you blow the nicer it gets however there will be exceptions.

interesting you should say that ...on first hearing i was also a bit put off by the gratuitous distortion but my god does it grow on you to the point that my appreciation of bass tone has evolved somewhat.

a lot of the stranglers bass sound is also tied up in how you attack the strings and how you play ..in the 80s i used to get quite a few comments after gigs about how i sounded like jjb even though we were playing our own stuff and my rig wasn't set up specifically to sound like him...

derek was a huge influence on me .. it's a shame he doesn't get back together with the old band, bearing in mind all the early stuff was structurally started on the bass ..the guy who plays bass with them today does not do the early basslines justice at all in my opinion.

geddy was a huge entwistle fan from the get go so the two go hand in hand in my mind..

good old mother nature tends to have that effect..

i was seriously into rush in the 70s ..even caught a couple of their early hammy odeon shows then after moving pictures came out which was amazing they went all genesis 80s meltdown on me ...about then i jumped ship into the cure bunnymen etc etc...

i sometimes pm current adds of similar basses that have sold recently just to try and bring a degree of sanity into the negotiation ... it rarely has the desired effect.

well yes but my point was that at least countries that have a domestic environment that engages in charity on an individual personal level would suggest that any charitable acts carried out by their country would in some way garner brownie points for their next election ... so unlike china it's not always just pure unadulterated leverage.

china has one of the worst track records domestically when it comes to charity, any foreign policy engaging in charity is just pure leverage rather than playing to a domestic audience.

what a swizz ..they were free when i saw them at the henge..

it's going to be game to see which one collapses first ..ozzy just has to sing but bill has to drum, and it's not easy drumming.