Rich

What a big girl's blouse.

Amp only for me, the cabs are non-SWR. Does that count? An SM-900 that I bought late last year. The sound is to die for, and my amp GAS is currently stone dead. [attachment=20233:my_rig_02_09_small.JPG] Apologies for the truly shocking photograph.

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='408389' date='Feb 13 2009, 11:25 AM']Defo - she played on everything Motown apparently.[/quote] No, she just played on [i]everything[/i]. Ever. You know that Entwistle bloke who used to supposedly play with the Who? That was her with a sticky on beard. And that Jocko bloke? Her in a wig. Anthony Jackson? Kaye, fat suit, boot polish. True.

This has been discussed in the past, although searching for said discussion is a pain in the arse. If memory serves, I believe the word from those in the know was that mixing speaker sizes does not necessarily have a beneficial effect & the best results are had from keeping a uniform speaker size. If I'm wrong with this recollection, please correct me! Certainly from personal experience, my rig sounds loads better with two 1x15s than it did with a 1x15 plus a 2x10 -- but YMMV. As the man said, suck it and see!

[quote name='Steve_nottm' post='407520' date='Feb 12 2009, 12:42 PM']anyone got a recommendation for an easy intro for me to check out?[/quote] I'd start off with Heavy Weather and keep going from there. Enjoy! [quote name='thepurpleblob' post='407532' date='Feb 12 2009, 12:54 PM']I find both unlistenable :-( Does this make me a bad person?[/quote] Not at all. No more than my incredibly low opinion of Cliff Burton makes [i]me[/i] a bad person. [quote name='bumfrog' post='407541' date='Feb 12 2009, 12:59 PM']technically amazing, but apart from that, just sounds like fret w*nking to me.[/quote] Fret[i]less[/i], surely?

Curate's egg... good in places. Well, more than good. Genius in places. I will never ever tire of things like Havona, A Remark, Teen Town, The Chicken. But some of his work I do find almost unlistenable. Having said that, I still feel that he deserves his hype. Just imagine if he'd got together with Hendrix... [size=1]I [i]really[/i] hope this thread doesn't descend into yet another "jazz is sh1t" thing.[/size]

Old enough to remember Kerrang! mag being launched. My mate probably still has issue #1 lurking somewhere.

[quote name='Shambo' post='406599' date='Feb 11 2009, 04:41 PM']I also spend a few years living in Bristol, (hello my babbers). [/quote] Ullo moy luvverr. 'Ow bist?

[quote name='ARGH' post='406756' date='Feb 11 2009, 06:11 PM']Opeth were labelled 'Forest-metal' on their first lp 'Orchid'.[/quote] Well they wood be, woodent they. [size=1]Sorry.[/size]

[quote name='Tinman' post='406754' date='Feb 11 2009, 06:09 PM']they were charging the local mongs $200 for the privilege of having a table near the stage[/quote] And $300 to leave

Surely Hayseed Dixie have beaten you to it with the CountryMetal thing? [quote name='josh3184' post='406709' date='Feb 11 2009, 05:44 PM']sounds quite gritty[/quote] Yes, but we've got to take it seriously now apparently.

[i]*allows dictionary to fall open at random places*[/i] Horse-metal Aubergine-core Jacuzzi-metal Poop-core

[quote name='Born 2B Mild' post='405886' date='Feb 10 2009, 11:37 PM']Maybe there's an after-market Papier-mâché Ampeg-looking thing that the Shuttle could hide within, thus it could end up looking as enormous as it sounds?[/quote] Yup. Here it is. There's a Shuttle hiding inside the head, and the cab is actually a 1x12".

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='406665' date='Feb 11 2009, 05:18 PM']Country music is, on the whole, very fine, IMO. Like the old stuff, like the new stuff, like country-rock, like alt-country. 15 years ago, I'd have killed myself for thinking that; but you grow up, and your tastes get broader rather than narrower. Same as I find something to enjoy in blues, metal, reggae, dance, classical ad inf.[/quote]Ain't that the truth. If I could show my 15 year old self some of the stuff in my current CD collection, I'd die of shock. In 1980 I'd sooner have poked in my eardrums with a soldering iron than listen to Mozart or Motorhead or Miles Davis. [quote]Now, when it comes to hardcore British country music 'buffs', as they like to call themselves, that's a different story. Detest anything after Slim Whitman, build shrines to Boxcar Willie and drive around in rusty old Yank Barges with Confederate flag stickers. Weasel-featured, long greasy hair, tattoos, scars, ratty little moustaches, prosthetic limbs. And you should see their husbands.[/quote] coffee->screen

Not keen on the music, but surely this is the Best Thread Title Ever.

How many different prefixes can be added to '-core' or '-metal'..?

Grown? Nah not me. I'm just too lazy to write "oh for christ's sake change the record". errm sorry, I mean 'wink'.

[quote name='RayFW' post='406508' date='Feb 11 2009, 03:55 PM']Cos then you get your wife, dog and job back.[/quote]Or your girl leaves your best friend for you, and you win lots of money and a car in a well-advised poker game. [quote name='BigBeefChief' post='406594' date='Feb 11 2009, 04:39 PM'][i]<< predictable anti-Jazz irrelevance >>[/i][/quote]

Just like Del Palmer, my first bass was a '64 Hofner Artist II -- I bought mine from my school metalwork teacher for £20. Still got it. It's pretty much unplayable now, but looks as as fck on the wall. Second bass was a Columbus Jazz copy, third bass was my treasured Wal. Started playing because I'd always felt drawn to the bass, ever since I was everso young and at a concert with my folks, and had felt my tummy fluttering because of the low end. I distinctly remember telling my mum that I could [i]feel[/i] what that man with the 'guitar' was playing -- dim memory suggests that it was a sunburst Fender of some sort. Initial influences were Tony Butler of Big Country and Dave Steele of The Beat, until one day I saw Mark King on the telly... [quote name='Born 2B Mild' post='397275' date='Feb 1 2009, 09:23 PM']I got a Kay 'SG'. Thin bodied, sunburst, and probably short scale. £20 new, from Norman Hackett's in Reading (where I believe Bryan Adams also got his first six string). Rode home to Woodley with it on my back, on my Raleigh Runabout moped, which was a bit naughty, as I was 15 and not yet legal on the road.[/quote] Norman Hackett's! On the corner in Caversham, my god that takes me back. I used to live in Shinfield, so the Reading music shops were a regular haunt of mine. I bought my Wal from Hamer's on Oxford Road.

[quote name='dood' post='405999' date='Feb 11 2009, 09:28 AM']new baby Doodle (sorry, 'Sally' I believe, eh Rich lol)[/quote] Ohhh yes you just KNOW that the name has stuck forever, don't you? [quote]Steve, I like your second idea and your logical approach makes sense.[/quote] +1 for the second design. I also v.much like the idea of varying knob size. Stop sniggering at the back there, boy.

[quote name='kennyrodg' post='405738' date='Feb 10 2009, 09:00 PM']Can't do it.In fact i can't even talk or answer a question whilst playing bass.[/quote] Don't feel bad about it. Talking whilst playing is MASSIVELY more difficult than singing and playing. Don't know why this should be the case, but it is. I can sing and play quite well, but talk? Nah.

[quote name='SJA' post='405601' date='Feb 10 2009, 06:33 PM']whatever you think of Sting, the verse of this song is an impressive bit of vocal & bass coordination- [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnnUDGLnUzE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnnUDGLnUzE[/url][/quote] Blimey, that is good stuff. I think ol' Gordon gets an unfairly harsh press. In a similar vein... whatever you might think of Mark King, this is a very impressive example of the play/sing thing. Slap-phobics should fastforward to 0:45 or thereabouts [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwrJNhTBNWs"]Level 42 - To Be With You Again live[/url]

Well as you know, I'm a big fan of controls that follow the edge of the body... so how's this? [attachment=20039:kiwi6.jpg] The cyrillic characters are supposed to be switches... they're the closest things I could find in Word...