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The origin of the discussion appears to have been this petition: https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/tcelectronicpresetpetition The author is a gear reviewer: http://www.bestguitareffects.com/author/jessica-fennelly/

They're an obscure comedy band and within their sphere of influence the joke is probably hilarious. Present it to the wider public without any indication of context and there will be people who either don't realise it's a joke or who just don't find it funny.

I think that distinction requires that you're in on the joke. I've never heard of Steel Panther, I doubt many people have. It's not obvious that it's a joke.

A full photo of the bass might help

lol... I refer you to my previous post! I have a bunch of Steve Vai albums. I'd rather go to the dentists than listen to them.

Way, way too many things. All that shred stuff from the 90s... Steve Vai and Joe Satriani... it's all very impressive, but I can't listen to it for pleasure.

I enjoyed the film. Without getting too amateur psychologist about it, his whole life was clearly defined by rejection and his certainty that he wasn't good enough. Which probably became self-fulfilling.

Do it in 5/4... that would be funny.

Gypsy jazz band, playing 30s style French swing... *badly slurred* "D'ya know Wichichicha Lineman???.... Yes you do!!!! It goes Da da da da da da da da da...."

I could walk you through it... do you have a guitar or a keyboard?

whizzed???

There's an interesting story about Life on Mars. There was a bit of a thing in the 60s with people writing English lyrics to French songs and having hits. Bowie tried it with a song called Comme d'habitude, writing a song called Even a Fool Learns to Love... Paul Anka bought the rights to it and rewrote it as My Way, which was a bit successful, and a whizzed off Bowie (who got no royalties) rewrote it as Life on Mars.

Context is everything. What sort of music are you playing? Getting freaky with chord extensions and alterations may be great in some styles or they might get you fired. The bass has a fairly well defined role in most popular music. A major part of that is to outline the progression of the harmony. Thinking "jazz" (which is appropriate given you're talking about extended chords), the keyboard player or guitarist will be providing the rest of the harmony. They're often reliant on the bass outlining the basic triad, certainly on the strong beats of the bar, and use voicings that don't necessarily include the root. Stray too far and the harmony is lost. If you're talking about passing notes, it's less of an issue. The best place to go nuts, if you have to, is on the dominant chord in a V-I progression. The pull towards the dominant to the tonic comes from the dissonance of the tritone between the 3 and b7 of the dominant chord. You can enhance this dissonance by adding further extensions... 9th, 11th (sometimes) and 13th Because the tritone is symmetrical, you can invert it so the 3 becomes the b7 (and vice-versa) of another dominant chord a tritone away... the tritone substitution. D7 becomes Ab7 but retains the same function. In effect it becomes a D7b5b9. Use Ab9 and you add the #5 of D7. Add the 13 of Ab and you get the #9 of D7. It's easy to go wrong with this, so use it sparingly... it tends to work better in minor ii-V-i progressions. The other place to use interesting colouration is in modal music. If you're playing a lydian piece, you'll be outlining a maj7 chord, but the #11 will be perfectly acceptable. In country and western, stick to root & five.

Has there ever been a cooler drummer than this?

Voted.... hope you get it, it's a great festival.

£700????

Quality.

Don't think it was a stick... rather the youtube Anderton's Chapman guitars.

That look from you at 0:40 says it all!

Nice one! I played there in the dim and distant past... It was a bit smaller then.

I've sanded a scratchplate before and buffed it to a gloss finish. I wouldn't have bothered with peroxide/bleach. I used to collect vintage star wars figures and that's a method people sometimes use to return yellowed figures to white. They just go yellow again... faster than before. If I were you I'd buy a new plate.

Any number of badly set up basses in guitar shops. Most of them would be good if they were tweaked/restrung.