The Last Bass Outpost

LOL, a(nother) blatant case of whitewashing a black artist!!! My public image is now ruined with all Americans.

Let's be inclusive: And black Americans too.

PS: Whitney, forgive me.



And you didn't always whine like that Westheimer dude has claimed either!

This is the only Whitney Houston song I ever liked.  She is a good vocalist I just wasn't into the songs or the production (which made her voice more peircing).



Wait for it - spoiler alert: she joins the JAMs in the end.

How's that for whitewashing? Knowing those guys, even ignoring Scottish stereotypes, I doubt that was legit (predates their ABBA lawsuit).

Kinda surprised they went with a 3 point vs something that would work on the original 2 point studs - there's options including tracking down vintage parts.

I've used string cutoffs too, but most nut materials are softer than frets.

Nickel strings on nickel frets will make an impact over a decade or so easily.  Even water wears away the rock.  Sure, with steel strings it's just more of a threat, but either way it happens if you keep and play the bass enough.  Nobody is saying you can saw through a fret in 10-15 minutes like you can a cheap plastic nut (as is it takes a surprising while - roundwouunds aren't the most efficient file and I wouldn't use them to slot a fresh nut so much as to widen/deepen existing slots a smidge especially when trying a new string gauge).

I've never understood why anyone would want flatwounds with zing. Like Ernie Ball promoting their Slinky Flatwounds as sounding like rounds. Why? If you want it to sound like rounds, buy rounds.

Flatwounds with a pick can be a great sound, so many examples. But it's not for everybody, and it's not supposed to be zingy.

Mainly for fretless. To get the Jaco tone without forming grooves in the fingerboard. I'm using half-rounds (groundwounds) on my fretless.

Also for those with sissy hands or eczema like I have (as well as a compulsion to clamp down with your fretting hand much more than you need to) flatwounds are less hurty.... but if you like the sound of rounds. Or if you like sliding a lot you don't get as much extranious noise (like a pic slide on guitar) covering up the actual note.

There's also fret wear, but as Dave said (implied) that is a long slow process unless using steel string - but roundwounds, being textured like a file, would speed it up at least a little no matter the material.  In fact I have used string cutoffs before to file nut slots - you know they're sized right.

Wow, super nice 64 II there.  Congrats.

A parchment pickguard would make those pop in my opinion. The fretboards are too red-ish to play ball with a tort pickguard with similar hues. Very nice basses all the same!

Rosewood varies in colour some.... anyway that's the reason I thought the tort worked - matching the fretboard.

I am surprised about the bound board rejection.  Like I don't care too much either way.

I'm really into this. 



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My problem with Meatloaf was never the production.  More is pretty overwrought even by ironic standards (not a bad song though).  This Corrosion slightly less so (on both counts). Him having only produced that single track (Corrosion) off of Floodland (ignoring a 1/3rd prod credit on Dominion) actually makes sense - Lucieta My Reflection doesn't have half the cheese elements in it (like seriously the "gimmie the ring," "sing!" and shitty choir backup vocals are cringey AF - even 10 year ole me felt that, along with the horrible keyboard bits and that intro - the only good bit is the chorus.... which is probably why it's 70% of the song).  I know harpsichord and choral backups are literally gothic, but hey now, hey now now.

His biggest indictment is being fired by Def Leopard (LOL).  And that's despite being totally behind the times all throughout the 80s, with the Sisters being a weird outlier that only makes sense if you understand what wellREDman said above. Either he was in on the joke or more likely it was much lower budget than Bat Out of Hell (like they couldn't afford him for the whole record) so only qualified for the lowest tier in the Service Level Agreement. 

I'll leave you with a little gift though, which I suspect is all the kinds of wrong you like ;P