The Last Bass Outpost

Any results with Dolf, Geroge?

We're emailing now and it's looking good so far. Thanks so much for passing on my info. It could be a good deal all around!

I'm afraid to even ask - How much for the Embassy?

$2200 for the Embassy, Gary. Thanks for the interest either way. 

The three point really does make up for it as long as the twist is even and not too crazy. The bird I sold Mark looks a little weird if you sight it down the neck from the headstock, but when it's hanging from a strap and being played it's not something that you even think of. It may have affected it's value from a collectors POV, but as a player who cares? I was glad my bass went to a home where it'd be loved and played. And Mark, you're welcome!

BTW: Nothing that much heralded new bass player played on those first three songs made me listen up, perhaps I even miss Jason Newsted's pick attack sound a little in the mix.

Uwe

Robert Trujillo's massive talent is somewhat wasted in Metallica. Pick up some Infectious Grooves to hear just what a monster bassist he really is. I never had the desire or, to be honest, the patience to play that way, but I'm a huge fan of that style when it's done that well. Then again, if he's playing a part that serves the song it shows he really is a bass player and doesn't need to prove himself to anyone.

I haven't heard the Guitar Hero mixes, but I have read some analysis of the mastering and even the guy that mastered the album has kind of disowned it (blaming it on the loudness wars). I've heard the album a few times and I hear Master of Puppets and In Justice pretty strongly, which is an improvement to my ears. Obvious clipping on an album from a band of this stature is pretty embarrassing though.

Anyone who thinks U.S. elections have been more rancorous over the last 20+ years has obviously never studied the history of U.S. elections:

... Things got ugly fast. Jefferson's camp accused President Adams of having a "hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman."

In return, Adams' men called Vice President Jefferson "a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father."

As the slurs piled on, Adams was labeled a fool, a hypocrite, a criminal, and a tyrant, while Jefferson was branded a weakling, an atheist, a libertine, and a coward...


http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/08/22/mf.campaign.slurs.slogans/

 

And as far as Russel Brand goes Uwe, I think it came across more as someone from 'outside the family' coming in and slinging mud that wasn't his to sling, so to speak. As much as we fight amongst ourselves, I think we, as Americans, still feel that unity when we're backed against a wall. Even a non funny rhetorical one.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=150294832621



Riiiight.

Should be able to waste the entire afternoon going through the rest of the family tree.

Ha ha.  That's what I did last night!

I followed a link to an MTV website where there were 4000+ comments on the debacle. I was amazed at the vitriol being heaped on Brand and MTV in general. I wouldn't have thought of MTV viewers as caring all that much about political or moral issues, but Brand really struck a nerve. I guess he won't be back next year.