Cosmo Valdemar

I love the Classic Doublecut and the Retro Firebird. Gorgeous.

[quote name='danweb22' timestamp='1326370308' post='1496104'] DW Guitars in Maidstone, on Lucerne Street [/quote] Cheers! I'll have a gander.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1325872765' post='1489249'] DW is just down the road from you and is top notch. [/quote] Who is DW?

[quote name='Evil Undead' timestamp='1326227457' post='1494183'] I've always felt more physically comfortable on a 4, but that B comes in really handy on occasion. And it certainly will if I play in a metal band in the future. [/quote] It sounds like you have it stuck in your head that to play metal you need access to a B string. You might end up in a traditional thrash band that riffs away happily in E! If you really do need access to the lower notes, just re-string you 4 as BEAD - or, do as we did in the 90s and just tune down! As long as you've got at least a 110 you'll be ok tuning down to B. It will be floppy and rattly but it can work very well for certain types of metal and can be very brutal.

I'm sure Chris will be very pleased to have some windows finally!

[quote name='Scotticus' timestamp='1326055576' post='1491750'] Spot on Cosmo, the huge wookie-like guitar player is Richie.Nope, we haven't gigged with Sons of Merrick, but would be chuffed to do so. Shoot me a PM if you chaps ever need an opener. [/quote] Alas I haven't been their bass player since June. But things are rolling on very nicely for them! Keep an ear open for the new album, should be out in the next couple of months - I'm on that.

[quote name='fluffo' timestamp='1325872683' post='1489245'] There is only one luthier that I would ever use and he is in kent, gravesend. Hes repaired Mark Kings basses Mark knoffners schecter and I have used him for years and he aint silly money Andy Warnock 01474 537264 [/quote] Is he really as good as everyone makes out? I emailed him and I'm afraid he did quote me silly money, far more that anyone else.

Is that Richie on guitar? I used to bump into him a lot at our gigs. In fact we might even have gigged with you at some point - my memory is awful.

[quote name='hairyhaw' timestamp='1325257679' post='1481416'] I was considering buying this month's mag till you said that about the Rick. Does the Squire article take a different slant to the usual? I only ask as it’s it’s getting difficult to say anything new about CS’s Rose Morris short of a doing a photo essay with the bass being taken apart. I’m surprised Squire himself isn’t fed up of talking about it. [/quote] Nah, if you've even a passing interest in Squire or Yes you will have read it all before - wallpaper covering, picking each note then brushing it with his thumb. Probably why he didn't get the cover (which he deserves) and a picture of a bass and amp did. The picture they used on his gear list was of a recent 60s reissue, with the reverse headstock.

I'm subscribed and always look forward to reading it each month, but I'm amazed at the amount of sloppy mistakes they make - in the Chris Squire interview they used a picture of Rickenbacker bass he doesn't play, and in the Novoselic interview they used a picture of a modern Ripper reissue and a generic jazz bass. Surely it isn't hard to find a picture of the actual bass they played? Or at least a live shot of them using it? Laziness! It's not as bad as the now legendary '50 basses you must play before you die' issue, where most of the pictures accompanying the article were of the wrong bass.

I really like the Lost Trident Sessions CD, it's the album they recorded after Birds of Fire but never released as the band felt the live versions were far better. It doesn't flow as well as the first two albums, and side two has a track by each band member alone (due to a dispute over songwriting credits) but the two lengthy pieces are superb. The production is excellent too, definitely the best for hearing Rick Laird's bass. Check out the riff at 5:00, and the ensuing violin and guitar solo duel. It's astonishing. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1WEQq6iPZM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1WEQq6iPZM[/url]

I was lucky enough to have an endorsement deal with Ashdown a few years back, I was about to buy one of their amps but a mate who worked for Sound Control at the time knew their artist relations guy and put me in touch with him. He liked my band and offered me an artist's deal - I didn't get anything free but was able to buy stuff at really reduced prices. This suited me down to the ground as I was going to buy their stuff anyway. I don't use it anymore as I left the band and decided I wanted to explore new avenues of sound. Although my band toured quite a bit up and down the country we were never 'big', they just either liked our music or saw some potential for exposure there somewhere! They looked after me really well and it felt great to be honest, one of my proudest moments. I'm still on the Ashdown website though, hidden away...

But remember, "[b][size="2"]Mat Mathias made mondo high voltage look like something you want to run your tongue accross[/size][/b]".

[quote name='spongebob' timestamp='1324401382' post='1473879'] Glad to see this thread back! Superb album, still remember the day I bought it - felt timeless on release, and still sounds great. IMHO, the best set of lyrics to any album...so affecting. How JDB sang them is beyond me - if you listen with the lyric sheet, it's phenomenal, and so amazingly powerful...the references, the imagery... I've always been in the Ric camp - but TBH, the album could be a mix of P and Ric. He played a P on the dates around the release, and on a bootleg I'd thought it was a Ric until I saw some footage, and it was a P! I suppose it's the amp, the eq...maybe we'll never know for sure. [/quote] I remember when I first heard it, one of the defining moments of my teenage years. At that time I was a fully commited metal head, and then this came along and just totally outstripped any Slayer record in terms of imagery, dread and sheer horror. Truly a landmark album, and one that hasn't aged at all. Every time I listen to it I'm astonished, especially considering they purposefully chose to record it in a cheap and dingy studio in Cardiff - a deliberate reaction to the 'rock star' excesses of the previous album. As for the lyrics, Richey (and to a lesser extent Nicky) gave no thought to how his words would fit into a 'conventional' song structure, and it was then up to James and Sean to wrestle and distort them to fit, resulting in the jarring and alien emphasis and pronounciation.

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1324305075' post='1472791'] I still maintain, to my ears at least, it's predominantly a Rickenbacker. Revol might be a P, at a push. There are several moments which just scream Rick to me, these being the outro of Archives of Pain, the little bass fill toward the end of 4st 7lb, and The Intense Humming of Evil. A Precision bass just doesn't sound like that. [/quote] Examples: From 1:10 onward: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbITPljzybE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbITPljzybE[/url] Intro and outro in particular: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiG7lxhJ0-0&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiG7lxhJ0-0&feature=related[/url] This one sounds like a Rick in stereo - one amp bassy and clipping, the other clanky and slightly overdriven. The outro seems a lot more distorted.

I still maintain, to my ears at least, it's predominantly a Rickenbacker. Revol might be a P, at a push. There are several moments which just scream Rick to me, these being the outro of Archives of Pain, the little bass fill toward the end of 4st 7lb, and The Intense Humming of Evil. A Precision bass just doesn't sound like that.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1324122863' post='1470989'] A Beatles tune....if you don't get this, you have no soul. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IyrETsYM8w[/media] [/quote] Oh my word.

My all-time favourite Phil bass line. So simple yet it says so much. Beautiful guitar solo too. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFmNGPyq9eE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFmNGPyq9eE[/url]

I know the name but can't remember for the life of me who this chap is.

Being hopeless with crosswords, can anyone put me out of my misery? By that I mean reveal the answer, not shoot me.

The bass player from The Answer uses one of the Zemaitis bass models. This one if I remember correctly: [url="http://www.zemaitis-guitars.jp/our_guitars/bass/"]http://www.zemaitis-guitars.jp/our_guitars/bass/[/url] Still hideously expensive.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1323550590' post='1464561'] Must admit, have only really got the MSP stuff since Everything Must Go, but that track Sllepflower, well I can see the rock influence - James Dean Bradfield is a big fan of Slash apparently. Think I`ll have to get Gold Against The Soul, really liked that. [/quote] You would probably like their first album, Generation Terrorists, as well then.