bartelby

Email Celestion. They're pretty good with info

[quote name='Adrenochrome' timestamp='1431807070' post='2775251'] Exactly - not quite as big were bands like Flotsam & Jetsam, Acid Reign (not really as technical), and bands like Overkill (already mentioned). [/quote] Doomday for the Deceiver is a great album.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1431714364' post='2774324'] I agree. I keep looking at Andy Baxter's Rickenbacker collection, but it's more money, money, money! [/quote] I look to see if he has any 1986 Shadow Ric in. Despite not having £3K+ it's still disappointing to see one come in and get sold...

[quote name='hairychris' timestamp='1431690975' post='2774003'] ST started as hardcore, but crossed over and "HWILT" and "Lights..." were definitely thrash albums. [/quote] I know, but I if someone mentions ST my first thought is Hardcore, not Thrash.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1431679841' post='2773846'] I distinctly remember getting my parents to buy me Reign in Blood for my 12th birthday... they had to import it and everything. [/quote] My mate, who was 10 at the time, bought Hell Awaits and a picture disc of Show No Mercy when I bought Ride the Lightning. I'm just listening to Killing is my Business, for the first time in years. It's much better than I remember. Except I can't not sing Four Horsemen along to Mechanix...

Someone told me that some of the earlier albums had orchestration added when they were remastered. I've not gone looking as the remastered stuff sounds bad anyway. Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, Testament... will always be Thrash bands to me (but Suicidal Tendencies are a hardcore band) The first Metallica album I bought was Ride the Lightning in 1985. As a fresh faced 12 year old I was buying Powerslave and the guy behind the counter shoved RtL in my hand, saying "pfft, dinosaur rock. Get into these guys"

I'll have an empty casing once I've got a new pickup. I managed to get the coils/resin out in a block. If you have no luck else where let me know. It may be a few months though.

[quote name='The Admiral' timestamp='1431632315' post='2773516'] Unless of course you are going to tell me that a Jazz is good for metal, in which case I may have to throw my music stand........ [/quote] I give you Opeth's Martin Mendez

Bass 1: SB-1000 Bass 2: B&G SB Elite

Shame Mustaine felt the need to do a horrible remastering job on it: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWLOKmyu40I[/media]

Megadeth certainly had their moments. Rust In Peace is one of them, and Lucretia is a high point on it. For me this is the last time they were any good. Best time I saw them live was the tour for this.

[quote name='Prostheta' timestamp='1431624412' post='2773376'] @bartelby - the MB-II has a bit more of a P-bass character than the MB-I/1E, which is essentially a dual Jazz with ceramic mags. Immense output, but depends on which character you prefer. If you like warm, go MB-II. That's my preference, at it turns out. [/quote] It's been so long since my Elite's pickup worked properly I can't remember what it sounded like. But judging from the fully functioning coil on the E and A, a MB-II would be sufficient output wise. I just have to save lots of money for all the work to be done now...

[quote name='JJW' timestamp='1431624084' post='2773372'] Some of the ones he used had the eye markers, but what is the difference between the 2 basses just quality? [/quote] His Black & Gold had the eye markers. I think (I could be way wrong): The B&G just has a passive volume and tone control and gold hardware (with the original style Aria bridge) The SB-1000CB has all the active gubbins and black hardware (with a modern generic Gotoh bridge)

[quote name='Norris' timestamp='1431620939' post='2773333'] The MB-1 from Rautia Guitars Edit: If you mean neck or bridge, the mk1 SB-1000 is single pickup. Later ones had two. [/quote] Nope, you were right the first time. I was asking which model pickup. For my own restoration project I'm trying to decide whether to go for a MB-II, that my SB Elite has, or a MB-1E...

[quote name='JJW' timestamp='1431622150' post='2773343'] Cheaper one, seem to be a new release [url="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/710-53481-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=2&pub=5575090229&toolid=10001&campid=5337531593&customid=&icep_item=281669591373&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229508&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg"]http://rover.ebay.co...&mtid=824&kw=lg[/url] [/quote] Two different basses. The first is the Cliff Burton Black & Gold tribute bass This is the SB-1000 Cliff Burton Sig. bass (Cliff's actual SB-1000 had dot inlays not the "eye" type of the Black & Gold/SB Elite IIRC)

[quote name='Norris' timestamp='1431589572' post='2772786'] A straight replacement of the original MB-1 (3-wire) Edit: Or did you mean Prostheta's "BB" noisekiller circuit? - in which case the one with modern components. [/quote] No, which pickup.

[quote name='Norris' timestamp='1431585750' post='2772741'] Rautia Guitars (as recommended by Prostheta). [/quote] Which one did you go for?

[quote name='Bloodaxe' timestamp='1431559547' post='2772681'] One of the guys on TalkBass took another route & created a 'CB Tribute' out of a complete dog of an SB - [url="http://ariabasses.blogspot.co.uk/2014_04_01_archive.html"]http://ariabasses.bl...01_archive.html[/url] [/quote] That's what I'm doing with my battered SB Elite. Except it's going to cost nearly as much as buying a original one...

Most forum search engines are poor. Putting this into google got your ad as top hit*: basschat: for sale: Aguilar AG500 * possibly because it's the newest one...

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1431535566' post='2772359'] It has arrived. Will try it later! [/quote] and post with sound clips/video/photos?

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1431535143' post='2772352'] Not even Jimmy Page's guitar, just [i]signed[/i] by him. Sheesh! [/quote] Hey, it says "... [color=#000000][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif][size=5][b]Jimmy Page double neck is one of the 25 (or 26) hand selected and played by Page..."[/b][/size][/font][/color] A few strummed chords and a scrawl must be worth £40K

[quote name='stuckinthepod' timestamp='1431530359' post='2772288'] Ok - now a big outcome plot followers. I just had a call from the Regional Ops Director at ParcelForce to tell me that the behaviour was unacceptable/contrary to what they stand for as a company and they have terminated the delivery guy's contract. [/quote] I guess the guy had a previous history of not doing his job properly.

[quote name='Left Foot' timestamp='1431357261' post='2770406'] It just sounds unbelievable, I'm not saying it is untrue bud, that's just ludicrous. [/quote] A few years back HDNL (now Yodel) used to leave parcels in my wheelie bins all the time. Including time they put something in the garden waste bin and didn't leave a note telling me. I discovered it 2 days later as I was dumping grass cuttings into the bin...

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1431352302' post='2770321'] He was great. I often wonder how the newer stuff would have sounded with him - or whether the new stuff would have been written at all. [/quote] I often wonder that too. I also wonder what he'd have made of the whole Napster thing. I reckon he'd have just kicked Lars' arse and told him to pipe down.

I watched Cliff 'Em All the other day, for the first time in many many years. The whole thing is on YouTube. Cliff really was the talented one of the band. His solos were great!