Rich
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My preamp is the EMG BTS, I'm happy with it. TBH my main driver for the pickup change is to get more beef and aggression especially from the neck pickup.
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I'm going to change the pickups in my Spector Q4 - it currently has EMG HZ soapbars and they're ok, but I want to swap them out for something a bit more... well, more. I've looked at Aguilars and Delanos but they're well out of my reach £-wise, and active EMGs seem to be the Spector thing so I'm going with them. The 35DC is my current favourite for the bridge, but the 35TW is also a possibility. For the neck, I'm quite interested in the 35P4. A good ballsy P tone is ideal for much of the stuff I play, and the P4 seems like the perfect candidate. Or would I be better with the reversed-coils P4X? Any experience-based advice welcome.
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Yes, for me it's the playing/singing that's the most impressive aspect of his playing. Something as complicated as To Be With You Again, and he sings over it AND makes it look easy. How? Great playing. At Bath his fretless work on Words was lovely, I really wish he'd been further up in the mix.
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I see that as exasperation, not anger. Entirely justified exasperation, if you ask me.
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This alone would infuriate me beyond words, and make me walk without looking back. It's not even an amateur attitude, it's a disrespectful one.
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This just popped up on my feed. I'm not a golfer, but even if I was, I don't think I'd be in a rush to play this course...
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So the OP asks a question about his bass, and your answer is that it's total crap. Yeah, I bet he's overwhelmed with gratitude. 🙄
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Best news I've heard all year.
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I'm sure this thread can do without smartass answers (now removed) to questions that weren't actually asked.
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Yup. In other words, it's a band
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Oh dear Want to share your Pros and Cons, or are they a bit personal?
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That is mad. I mean, who would even do that?
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Our Train To Skaville gig on Saturday night at Trowbridge Conservative Club was excellent. Great crowd, danced to everything (even the soundcheck) and loved us to bits. Very very hot, I mean blistering -- my shirt and facetowel were both wringing wet by the end, if we play there again I'm taking a fan -- and thanks to the low ceiling and concrete floor, mahoosively loud too. At one point I took an earplug out, winced and put it straight back in.
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Favourite songs where the bass line is the hook!
Rich replied to Al Krow's topic in General Discussion
I love reggae 😁 share your faves plz -
A13, Trunk Road To The Sea - Billy Bragg
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Oh the lustre was back last night, in absolute spades. It was the best I've seen them in years. For anyone who's interested, the set was: I'm off to make a playlist of it
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I tried to get a photo of Mark's pedalboard at the end, but was hustled away from the front of the stage by a sweaty wheezing Forum employee whose sole job was to hassle people into leaving, so came away empty handed. So I'm still none the wiser. The only things I could make out were a Boss tuner, an old Eventide unit of some sort and a Moogerfooger, but I don't know which one.
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Yes, superb gig - they looked like they were having a whale of a time on stage. Great to hear some proper oldies in the set, I swear I squealed like an excited child when started. 😄 I do wonder if perhaps we're seeing the farewell tour here though...
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I'm with you 100% there. I would far rather play with average musos who were lovely people, than with virtuosos who were utter gits. Luckily I get the best of both worlds... both bands are git-free zones, my 20 bandmates are all wonderful friends and I love em to bits, and they're all super musicians and performers too. I'm very lucky, but if I was to lose these two bands I'm not sure if I'd carry on.
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Dog walks into a post office, says he wants to send a telegram.
"OK" says the clerk, "what's the message?"
The dog says, "Woof woof woof, woof woof woof woof woof, woof woof."
Clerk says, "OK, but for the same price, you can add one more 'woof'".
The dog frowns and replies, "But then it wouldn't make any sense."-
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Reminds me of this one.
Remote Scottish village, general store cum post office, bell tinkles as the door opens.
'Mrs McDonald' says the postmaster 'We dinnae see you too often'.
'Aye, well, Mr McDonald died. I'd like to put a wee notice in the paper, what's the cheapest?'
'£5, what d'ye want to say?'
'Mr McDonald died'
'Feh £5 ye get 3 more words'
'Mr McDonald died. Volvo for sale'
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It'd go down a storm on the continent, they still love their fusion over there. Mike Stern's latest European tour for example, he had 9 dates in France with 8 in Spain and 5 in Germany coming up. One in the UK.
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I did that once in a shop many moons ago (back when I still went into music shops occasionally)... asked to try something, the sales guy plugged it in and went wickety-wackity-wock (badly) for several minutes and then handed it to me. I played 5 notes, just the open strings, then said "nah, don't like it" and handed it back. Even if I'd adored it, I wouldn't have bought it off him.
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I Wool Survive - Gloria Gaynor
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I adore fusion - there, I said it - and I like what I've heard of this so far, enough that I'll probably stump up the cash for the whole thing. I agree with @Bevan7, fusion seems to be an easy target for scorn - indeed I recall one former member of this parish making more than one 'joke' about what he believed were the illegal sexual preferences of fusion fans. Laugh? I nearly did. Anyway. Whilst I'm quite happy with the guitar as the lead instrument, I agree that it would be interesting to hear another on there. Much of Mike Stern's work involves a sax taking a co-lead role and it works very well.
