EssentialTension

I have had two Chinese made Squiers and both were very good.

Always right-angled, less chance of accidental damage.

Flatwound bass strings in guitar shops is extremely rare.

[quote name='Gaslion' timestamp='1412983846' post='2573972'] ... The best sounding is the one i take to my workshop ... [/quote] ... and what is your test for best sounding?

Using a pick is no fail at all - check out Bobby Vega.

Nonsense.

... and welcome.

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1419350514' post='2639032'] ... as long as you stay within the rules [/quote] That's a quote from Joe Stalin isn't it?

I think something that may have been different in the 1960s was that the old executives of the record companies did not pretend to know much of anything about the 'new' music and people got signed and given something of a free hand especially if they managed to sell even a few copies. By the 1970s, and ever since, the newer generation of executives thought they knew the new music and interfered accordingly. This is only meant as wild generalisation and not a fully sourced historical analysis that I wish to defend. I did once hear Zappa in an interview saying something similar.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1419371640' post='2639352'] Love it! Blue [/quote] I thought you'd like it and I do like it myself. It's interesting to see the development over the six years.

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/251945-the-rolling-stones-ed-sullivan-appearances-1964-69/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/251945-the-rolling-stones-ed-sullivan-appearances-1964-69/[/url]

http://youtu.be/pMY5KyEVq2g

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1419282071' post='2638390'] Nope, they are triangular-bodied. This seems to me to be a lute with only a single set of strings. [/quote] ... and I believe a lute is descended from al-oud.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1419286069' post='2638461'] What's up with the sound hole? It looks as if someone decided to drill it out, but stopped part-way through. [/quote] It does look [s]hand crafted[/s] home made.

Never had this problem, and particularly never had it with Thomastiks. If you aren't happy get Newtone to make you a set.

Very nice.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1419206325' post='2637681'] Probably better for metal than a ukulele. [/quote] But probably not better than a ukulele banjo.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1419204744' post='2637663'] I think we're back at the first post. Too few strings for an oud. [/quote] Half as many.

Looks more like an oud.

This is a kora:

It's not a kora.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1419196600' post='2637541'] I'm curious, what did you move on to? Blue [/quote] All sorts, both old and new, and anyway the new slowly becomes old and even the old is new when you first hear it. I guess I lost interest in the Stones around the time of the [i]Some Girls[/i] album.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1419194834' post='2637509'] ... You guys know how loyal us Beatles and Stones fans have been for the past 50 years. Are the fans of new bands as loyal? [/quote] When I was a 1960s teenager I liked the Stones a lot but for several decades now I have been totally uninterested by them. I'm not disloyal, I have just moved on.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1419194455' post='2637500'] Ok, hey I'm open to your position. If The Stones and McCartney are no longer as big or as important as they once were, why are they still selling out stadiums at $160.00 a pop. Somebody must think they're still important or still entertaining? So, I'm looking for your response to the [i]"why?"[/i] Blue [/quote] In the UK it is I think substantially more than $160 but I don't at all understand why anyone would go to see the Stones in a stadium. If you could see them in a small 200 people club for twenty quid then maybe, otherwise no thanks. The same goes for McCartney in my view, although some friends saw him at BBC Maida Vale recently and I could get with that. So [i]why[/i] do people do it? Probably all sorts of reasons and many of them unrelated to music including conspicuous consumption of hotel/gig/dinner/VIPseats/bottle of champagne/signed programme etc etc.

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1419194027' post='2637495'] It'll be interesting to see what bands are playing in 50 years time. I very much doubt it'll be stuff that's in the 'charts' today - at the risk of generalisation, it's not memorable or particularly well crafted - we're almost back into the 'stagnant' 70's music scene. [/quote] 'Charts' today does not mean the same thing as it did in the 60s and 70s. Anyway, in my recollection, in the 60s and 70s many of us mostly hated the 'charts'.