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I saw these dudes quite a few years ago at Womad... No idea what it's about but I really like it... if there are any Hungarians speakers on here, feel free to enlighten me!

Ha ha, the host with the roast... excellent!

Backing tracks I'm fine with up to a point, if it is to augment the sound of a live band with elements that could not easily be performed live. Lip syncing is pretty meh though - although I would question whether it is anymore dishonest than auto tune.

Another Newtone user here. Love them on my Dingwall, less harsh than Dingwall's own strings, plus I can get a custom gauge to suit my needs and they are UK made to boot. What's not like?

I believe the correct protocol when buying the Mail is to simultaneously purchase a copy of Razzle magazine. That way, you'll have something to hide it inside and thus avoid shame and potential humiliation when leaving the newsagents.

I've been ordering custom sets of Newtones for my Dingwall for the last year or so and totally agree, excellent strings and British made to boot. Last well too! La Bella low tension flats on my Lakland 55-94 for some greasy old school thump.... D'addario half rounds on my spectorcore fretless 5 string - these seem to work particularly well with piezo pickups for some reason.

The thing is though, the OP is claiming that's not what he meant, which I find disingenuous at best. If you want to make a leery, boorish nudge- nudge type comment about a girl on a publicly visible forum (which I think is the real point here), at least have the balls to admit it. Or possibly just keep it in your head where it belongs.

Nail on head. Hubba hubba indeed. FFS.

I love the smell of thinly veiled misogyny in the afternoon...

While it's true to some extent that no matter what instrument you play, you will always sound like you (with regards to character, phrasing or whatever), on a crappy bass (or even a good bass with crappy strings) you will never sound as good as you will on a decent quality, well strung instrument. All nuance and subtlety will be lost - a poor instrument will simply not be able to capture all the details that your fingers are (hopefully) producing. Of course this may depend entirely on what style of music you are playing - if you are plodding away on root notes to some three chord fuzz tone dirge, then there probably ain't much room for subtlety/nuance to begin with, so it undoubtedly matters a whole lot less... I suspect this also applies for point 2, i.e. audiences for different types of music will have different levels of awareness as to how good the overall sound of the band (including the bass) is, and will also give/not give a solitary flying fornicate to wildly varying degrees...

Or this one I found in a charity shop in Liverpool... anyone fancy a spot of self emptying with Father Sean?

There's a ton of these out there... how about this gem?

Vinyl for rolling a fat one on and enjoying the occasional evening of nostalgia, CD for listening to new music at home, digital for listening to in and to/from work...

Mmmmm jazz, it's just like the Bonzo's said... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABcNAwytrOY

Old man yells at cloud. Isn't it time for your cocoa Roger?

Beck was fab, excellent band and nice solo spot tribute to Prince with the Raspberry Beret cover. I must admit this has renewed my interest in him, after being disappointed with the Information album about 10 years ago. Manics were pretty good too, in spite of the absent Nicky Wire. Simple Minds were musically OK but Jim Kerr was struggling in my opinion. Other than that, there was nothing of any great interest for me.

Is this what happens when you hit the infamous brown note?

Dire version of a dire song... get in the sea.

Personally, I think it depends on what type of band it is. If it's covers band whose main raison d'être is making money, then I wouldn't worry about it. If it's originals where your particular style and sound is key to the overall sound of the band, then I would argue it's an entirely different matter...

Love the arrangement, it has a sophistication the likes of which I have rarely heard in popular music.

When it comes to non-coated round wounds, I've yet to find any make of strings that don't loose enough of their harmonic overtone content within around 2-3 months to require me to change them. I'm currently using Newtones on my Dingwall, and they are as good as any string I've ever tried, but 3 months seems about the limit to me. This is obviously highly personal and relates to my style playing, which relies on a high degree of clarity , growl and snap. Other players with other styles are clearly able to happily use the same strings for far longer than me. Lucky them.

Watched this at the weekend, I thought it was an excellent documentary - lots of interesting stuff relating to his early days which I didn't previously know a great deal about. Some good talking heads too, with the huge respect he has from all the other guitar greats of the 60's/70's clearly evident. I got into him in the early 80's when my then band's guitarist lent me a copy of Wired, which is still probably my favourite album of Jeff's. I've seen him live twice at the Manchester Apollo, once on the Guitar Shop tour with Bozzio/Hymas and more recently with the Tal/Vinnie band, which was just extraordinary. He's one of those players who oozes musicality and genuinely makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Not only that, but he comes across as a totally unpretentious and down to earth bloke. Good stuff.

Nice boots...

I don't know how she does it.... It's a mystery