Boo Yaa Tribe sprang to mind here.
I listened back to Picking Up Metal and it does sound shit.
At the time, they were quite unique and made a couple of decent tracks.
I’ve still got you copy of the judgement night soundtrack. Still not seen the film.
Fuck that Run DMC and Aerosmith track. I know it was pretty groundbreaking. But Steve Tyler’s face gives me nightmares.
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Encouragement for beginners.
Dude clearly has fuck all else to do. I’m envious.
Could be Gary Neville during lockdown.
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That black tele with the red binding is ticking all my boxes, man. The guitarist in my band has a black Fender Jag with just a humbucker in the bridge and a bright red pickguard because he wants to be Matt Skiba from Alkaline Trio/post DeLonge Blink 182 and I ragged on him for a start but I’ve grown to love it.
I haven’t actually got a picture of my “collection” but my two most important basses are as follows;
This is my gigging bass - Squier Classic Vibe 50s in Lake Placid Blue. Had all the electronics rewired and the stock pickup replaced with a Bareknuckle. Sounds absolutely mint cranked hot through an amp.
Ibanez JTKB200 I’ve literally never seen this bass around anywhere in this white with tartan pickguard finish, nor find any pictures online. Tone is a bit like a Jazz, but a bit growlier and less trebly. Roll the tone off and it almost sounds as smooth as an upright. This is the bass I mostly use when I record, because it’s just got more clarity and depth than my Squier in a studio context.
I’ve also got a 5 string Squier Jazz Deluxe that I never use because I can’t get the hang of active circuitry more than not being able to incorporate the low B.
Sorry for the CMOAC mid-gig shots but they’re literally all I have.
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Did you make these changes yourself?
Or did you identify what you felt that you wanted and have it done?
Either way, it takes a decent set of ears to tune in to this sort of mod that ends with the desired outcome.
A good mate of mine did guitar servicing and rebuilding as a side hustle before he had his kids. I actually destroyed the stock pickup on stage; the E string got caught under the lip of the top cover of the pickup and I strummed down on it, and it ripped the cover off and spilled all the coil wires out. It was a change I’d been sort of half-looking to make because the stock pickup was a tad weedy but that necessitated it. I just left it with him and he did everything from ordering the pickup, rewiring everything, fitted new strings (incidentally a custom order from a Derbyshire company - Newtone Strings) and I just paid him at the end!
Nice Jurwell! That Ibanez is odd but ace, i’d probably cover the tartan with some vinyl but love the shapes.
I literally love the bass, I would say i’m the most proficient at the bass but guit is my first instrument. My bass is not an expensive one, a Yamaha BB4 but I tried all the basses in many shops and thought I wanted a Stingray, this out of everything, even 4 times the price took top spot. With flat wounds it’s a great player. I’ll post a pic.
Also that tele is a hollow perspex guitar I made a good few years ago. I made the neck in perspex too and it looked great but when strung it curled and the truss couldn’t handle it which made the action a little too high. I recently found a black korean strat neck on ebay and got that up to scratch and whacked it on. i’ll get a close up of it and post.
Fuck
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random guitar question. is there anything you can do for teeny tiny marks in paintwork? not so much a scratch as a light smudge, does it require buffing out?
Got a picture to show the problem?
It’s teeny tiny which makes me think it can be removed
Bit hillbilly but he is not the first person I’ve seen use this stuff.
Must be available here but maybe under a different name, never looked.
It’s called simichrome polish.
Can’t tell if yours are much more than the surface scratches in the video example.
im so scared about using any actual cleaning products. i think that little smudge is literally just a mark on the final finish so assumably his method would work. will have to see if i can find the polish
Did you get any of the polish to try on your guitar?
i’ve tried to forget that there is a mark there at all and was largely successful until you just reminded me 
i really should get some tbh
Oops, sorry.
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I wrote a song on my guitar. Just played it straight through, plenty of errors.
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Five months on and I have to say that I’ve surprised myself. Not by being any good at it at all but just the fact that it isn’t sat there gathering dust. There hasn’t been a day where I’ve not played at least half an hour or so. It’s slow going but I don’t care I love it.
I’ve got where my fingers mostly fall into the right places for the common open chords without having to think and I can strum along without it sounding too awful. I think now I need to start trying to find out what all the rest of the fretboard is actually for.
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This has stoked me out, Amazing!
If you have no expectations you will probably stick at it at a constant rate. Sometimes when you get into a funk you’ll leave start to not enjoy it, but you’ll have a eureka moment and a new burst of progression will make you fall in love again. Exactly like skating. Yes G!
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