The Last Bass Outpost

Nice!  What's your signal path there?

And the H chord!

Wow, I didn't know about the second round of cancer.  Best to her.  I'm incredibly sad about Grant Hart.  I'm a huge Husker Du fan and didn't even know he had cancer until waking up to a message from a friend this morning telling me he'd died.

Yes King Diamond, I got my diamonds mixed up 

Hah, cool.  Glad to know I'm not THAT out of touch, then.  Holy crap, surprising King Diamond is playing in such a small place, then!

They were a big influence on Metallica. You might recognize "Am I Evil?" , "Helpless" or "Blitzkrieg"

Thanks. I’ll look into them. Sad when the bands who influenced bands that play in arenas play small clubs.

By the way, where in Salem is God City? There’s no address on their web site.

Mutoid Man recorded their last album at God City Studio in Salem MA. If you've ever been to St. Vitus bar in Brooklyn you may have crossed paths with the bass player who ran the front of the house sound there. Nick Cageao played an Aria explorer bass and they're supposed to be making his own signature model of it coming soon. Marty Friedman, formerly of Megadeth dug them so much he guested a solo on the title track of their new album War Moans. Totally worth checking out.

Cool. I haven’t yet made it to St. Vitus. Not sure that studio existed when I was in Salem. I moved back to NY in 2000.

A sad tangent: My wife's parents, both born and raised in Brooklyn during the Depression, both raised by Yiddish-speaking Eastern European immigrant jews, have the most pronounced Brooklyn accents among my acquaintances -- my father-in-law says "idear" for idea, for example -- But even they don't say "boid" for bird, or "toity-toid" for thirty-third.  Those regional accents are dying out

Me, I'm a Long Island (or Lawn Guyland) kid, raised by California transplants; I've been told I sound more California than LI.

But yeah. I like Thundaboids!

Yup, same heritage and story, but mostly the Bronx.  My favorite was my great aunt pronouncing 'beautiful' as 'beauty-ful'.  I grew up in Rockland County.

Finally popped your cherry here Ken 

And with a pic, no less!