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Gibson Basses / Re: Glenn Cornick bass timeline pre-JT through Wild Turkey and Paris - updated
« on: March 11, 2024, 05:11:07 PM »
Who was Neil Clark? Did he make the black pickguard for the TBII seen in the Tull footage from 1970?
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: March 10, 2024, 10:11:29 AM »Yup, that worked fairly well 30+ years ago and Alan might have been interpreted as being a bit more complimentary. Or......?? I wonder what a bald, wild, creek living beaver looks like? Hmm, well maybe something like this:
Jesus! I know we are a bit pale and pasty in Scotland and all!
For the record, my wife was fully clothed!
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Sam Ash on the decline
« on: March 08, 2024, 12:13:11 AM »
Covid-related lockdown was probably the last time there will ever be a surge in guitar sales for these big, generic retailers with physical stores. Guitar 'culture' seems increasingly irrelevant and at odds with the direction popular music is taking. Coverage of NAMM from thus year looked especially desolate, with several major manufactures notable in their absence. Increasingly, guitar culture is becoming akin to baseball card collecting, with a smaller pool of hobbyists with deep pockets determining the discourse. $600 boutique overdrive pedals that never leave the 'man cave', etc.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: March 05, 2024, 04:54:55 PM »Alan has a track record of being misunderstood notwithstanding his best intentions that permeate all his communication, be it oral or in writing. Tragic.
I shall savour this lingering ambiguity.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: March 04, 2024, 11:28:48 AM »
I was once holding a ladder for my wife and started singing "I saw the whole of the moon" as she started descending it, and it didn't go down well.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: It’s official … 4005
« on: March 03, 2024, 02:30:21 PM »It's more about the pickups than body construction. Jingle-jangly single coils are good for retro and indie, heavier genres call for humbuckers.
Lennon's 325 looked fantastic but it can't hold a candle to George's Gretsch tone.
Lennon's woody, zero-sustain and badly intonated 325 is like the real rhythm keeper on those early Beatles cuts! It kept right out the way of George's lead lines and drove the songs along. Not a tone I would want to be getting, but quite recognisable.
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Gibson Basses / Re: Music videos that feature RD basses
« on: March 02, 2024, 10:59:14 AM »
A cheerful ditty from Burning Witch, featuring some RD action from bassist G. Stuart Dahlquist.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: It’s official … 4005
« on: March 02, 2024, 10:54:32 AM »For me the lack of a hugely influential bass player associated with a 4005 is a bonus. I don't like looking like a fanboy.
Mani from the Stone Roses is the lone bassist I can think of who used one. Even then, I can't think of a specific identifiable 4005 tone jumping out their records. He uses Jack Casady basses these days.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: This is disconcerting.
« on: March 01, 2024, 06:01:55 AM »
I find it a bit crushing that this sort of tech could be used for good, but it always gets used for the shittiest purposes. There is so much hype around AI, and where it could be used improve services, products etc.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: It’s official … 4005
« on: March 01, 2024, 05:58:37 AM »
When I was a kiddo in the '90s Oasis seemed genuinely dangerous. Quite laughable now. A pack of roaming Mancunians with dodgy eyebrows, Ben Sherman shirts and parka jackets mincing around menacingly near some press photographers. Shouting "bollocks!" occasionally, dating supermodels and falling out of limousines. All ripping stuff to read about in the NME or various lowbrow 'lads mags' of the era.
In 1997 that felt like the height of danger, but a decade later your mate at school could send you a link to a website which automatically played a terrorist beheading video. For a laugh. The world moved quickly, and Oasis suddenly seemed quaint by comparison, with their brick wall'd Beatles sound and mushroom haircuts. Of another era! Britpop coincided with the last time (ever?) that there was any deep routed optimism within the British psyche. Tony Blair's labour government seemed fresh-faced and seemed to promise a lot of positive lousy, but represented a jerk to the centre-right in British politics that I don't ever see being reversed. Come 2007 we were in recession and we've been circling the drain ever since, asset-stripped and veering further and further right and getting constantly embroiled in gutter-tier identity politics. Oasis peaked at a time when there was still some sense within the general population of British exceptionalism (wrongly or otherwise) and the notion we had something to ship around the world.
Mark Lanegan documents a dispute he had with Liam Gallagher while Oasis and the Screaming Trees were on tour together. Mark was genuinely up for a fight with Liam, who had goaded him from the start of the tour. In return Liam hid behind security staff and eventually vanished off the tour. All talk!
In 1997 that felt like the height of danger, but a decade later your mate at school could send you a link to a website which automatically played a terrorist beheading video. For a laugh. The world moved quickly, and Oasis suddenly seemed quaint by comparison, with their brick wall'd Beatles sound and mushroom haircuts. Of another era! Britpop coincided with the last time (ever?) that there was any deep routed optimism within the British psyche. Tony Blair's labour government seemed fresh-faced and seemed to promise a lot of positive lousy, but represented a jerk to the centre-right in British politics that I don't ever see being reversed. Come 2007 we were in recession and we've been circling the drain ever since, asset-stripped and veering further and further right and getting constantly embroiled in gutter-tier identity politics. Oasis peaked at a time when there was still some sense within the general population of British exceptionalism (wrongly or otherwise) and the notion we had something to ship around the world.
Mark Lanegan documents a dispute he had with Liam Gallagher while Oasis and the Screaming Trees were on tour together. Mark was genuinely up for a fight with Liam, who had goaded him from the start of the tour. In return Liam hid behind security staff and eventually vanished off the tour. All talk!
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Gibson Basses / Re: Epiphone for 2024
« on: March 01, 2024, 05:42:56 AM »I printed the image from my desktop, aligned the print with the edge of a desk. ran a small t-square ruler across it.
If the geometries are distorted in the source image then no amount of analysis is going to get around that. Somebody is going to have to measure one of these basses in the flesh.
It would seem fitting that with the advent of Gibson prices for Epiphone instruments we start seeing Gibson factory errors in Epiphone instruments as well. Subtly erode quality and consistency while jacking the price. Fender MIM instruments seem to be in a similar low ebb just now.
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Gibson Basses / Re: Epiphone for 2024
« on: February 29, 2024, 11:06:21 AM »
I wouldn't trust any geometries to be faithfully reproduced on an image that potentially came from a smartphone or similar small device.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: It’s official … 4005
« on: February 28, 2024, 03:54:49 PM »What's the difference between these with the rounded horns and the ones with the horns that come to a point?
The pointy beast, 4005XC, was shortscale and not based on a historic instrument. Oddly, Shaftesbury had a bass like the 4005XC in the late '60s, so it's a copy of a copy.
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Gibson Basses / Re: Epiphone for 2024
« on: February 28, 2024, 10:19:09 AM »
Alan has a perm too then?
Ich wohne Mittelschottland, nicht Mittelerde.
Have Ich keine Haare.