The Last Bass Outpost

I'm with you, I think it's ok. Obviously, it seems to separate the men from the boys, but we'll keep quiet about that.

What's the German equivalent of giving someone the "raspberry"?

The neck on those is the deal breaker for me too, it's just big for my small hands.
I have slim hope the Epi pro will be better..............A 5 string would be nice.

It's not simply the, er, umm, girth that bothers me - I have P-Basses that are big neckers - the Epi just feels uncomfortable compared to my '76, or my J-necks.

I wonder if they stayed with the 1.75" nut width, or went to the "proper" 1.5" like on the Epi Blackbird. That neck has always been the deal breaker for me.

BadCo = Free minus the innovation.

More like Free minus the tortured souls. Koss' struggles with substance abuse and Fraser's with his sexuality are documented - but that kind of baggage always seems to produce great artists. While I liked Free alot, BadCo's songs were more complete and catchier that those old hay rotters.

Just watched a DeNiro called "Hide And Seek" and whilst trying to remember another film we thought we had seen with Dakota Fanning in (which we thought this was but wasn't) and trying to remember why Famke Janssen looked familiar (duh...) stumbled on this...

Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie...? I don't think she's hit 16 yet...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1017451/

Yah, old news. The documentary about them, "Edgeplay" is really good - even without support from Joan Jett. Very sad in parts, especially now that Sandy West is gone.

I usually sell off stuff in order to acquire new toys. In addition, I'm pretty realistic as to what I GAS over - this past year I had the SX bass bug (3 times!) and concentrated on unfinished projects, so it's been relatively inexpensive on the whole.

I have my doubts whether this will work.  Not because the new guy is a bad singer, but because Udo Dirkschneider is like Ozzy in a way: Not technically a good singer at all, but almost impossible to replicate credibly. Stuff like Balls to the Wall is inane, yes, but/hence hard to bring across convincingly. Dirkschneider can/could do it just like only Ozzy can sing/shriek N.I.B. or "Gen'rals gath'ring in the masseeeeeeeeeeees ..." without sounding like a spoof.

That said, I always thought of Accept as the dumbed-down poor man's Judas Priest. Even when Priest went AC/DC with stuff like "You've got another thing coming ...", they retained some sophistication and elegance. I miss that with Accept which to me always sounded heavy-handed. But I hear some of their trademark riffing in Rammstein songs.

This is Accept's "Ripper Owens Moment". While Mark, IIRC, did sing an Accept ditty or two in the clubs with TT Quick, this will probably be little more than his opportunity to join the firm Owens, Cherone, Corabi & Turner (a partnership of trip-and-fall singers). The move will most likely prompt Udo to re-join at a later date. Ironically, TT Quick originally came of age in the  NY/NJ club scene as an AC/DC tribute band back around 1980-ish. They recorded some not to shabby metal albums after securing the services of Erik "Bam-Bam" Ferro on drums, the closest thing to Bonzo I've ever seen (meant in a good way).