RhysP

Sweet!

The last few times I've bought leads I got them from a place called Ultimate Pro Audio on Ebay. Van Damme cable, Neutrik jacks, lots of colour & length options. Excellent quality leads for very reasonable prices.

Monster cables were known for this too.

That wouldn't put me off, no. Having said that, as someone who would rather slam his knackers in the fridge door than ever play in a band again I wouldn't reply to any "bassist wanted" ads. 😂

I don't think torturing prisoners is allowed anymore, is it?

I've always equated it with being a good way to get people to pay a premium for rotten/diseased wood. 😂

Same a spalting, which is a fungal growth found in dead and diseased trees.

I'd take Jon Anderson's nonsensicle hippy cobblers over Peart's verbose chin stroking earnestness any day of the week if I'm honest.

I took my stepson to see them live ages ago. I was very pleasantly surprised, bloody good live band, excellent sound.

Neil Peart should have had money taken off him for some of his lyrics, especially on the later albums.

I'd think John Illsey Would be a contender for that title too.

If he hasn't changed his strings since he started the thread they should be pretty dead by now.

Teenage Rampage - Sweet

Rics are through necks, not set necks (apart from the 3001, which is a bolt-on).

I was in my 40's before I lived somewhere that had central heating.

Tears for Souvenirs - Ken Dodd

I use a passive tone control more than a lot of people seem to, I find them very useful. Active EQs I tend to leave set at their centre detents. Ideally I like a bass where you can switch the EQ in & out, and that also has a passive tone control that you can use alongside the active EQ, which is exactly what the Bacchus bass I recently bought on here has.

Just goes to prove that even a silly joke can cause disagreement on Basschat... 🙄

Excellent amps, totally bomb-proof. Steve Harris was using these the first time I saw Iron Maiden (a LONG time ago, Paul Di'anno was still with them).

Oh Hell yes.

...though some of the Fender custom colours do look nice with a rosewood board... 🙄 😂

Funnily enough the one exception I would make is that a Precision HAS to have a maple fingerboard, rosewood just looks wrong on a Precision to me.

Did your playing suffer because you had to use both hands to take the battery out of the pedal?

I'm not insulting anyone, Just thinking out loud. I've certainly done the obsessing over rosewood/maple/whatever things I mentioned in my post when I was younger. I was pretty certain I could tell the difference too. What changed was I realised that it was completely unimportant to me, and nobody else gave a damn either. 😂