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My original comment was "Eh....." What I see here is a kid who has a certain level of musical ability. That's undeniable. (How much is open to one's own personal evaluation.) In my opinion, he just needs a few years to mature, vocally and instrumentally. He should be getting this training...

Right after I got HD service from Dish Network I could watch Later with Jools Holland on a channel called Rave. It was a music channel that played a great variety of music and styles. The channel was dropped from the lineup about a year later. I thought it was a really good show. I was watching &qu...

Wasn't the Band on the Run era his first "real" tour?

WOW.

I'd like to see Halle Berry playing the Ric.

Congrats!! I've posted this sentiment here before and I'll say it again, some of the best gifts I've ever received were purchased for me, by me!! :D That trend continues this Christmas as well. My Christmas gift to myself will arrive tomorrow via UPS in the form of a very big box with something ver...

Isn't the fact that it was good 4 years ago, a sign that it is a more recent problem?

I like the idea of the "color of the month".

Ric owners are recession-proof.

cjj wrote:I tried it once, sometime around 1978, didn't like the sound and haven't used it since...

Same with me, in 78 I wondered what those screws did.

The funny thing is that I bought PH5916 in January of 1977 and never paid any attention to what string size or tension I was using until I joined this forum. Now I pay attention although my neck is as straight as a string (thanks Mr. Hall).

Speaking of critters, our drummer recently dug his hand drums out of a storage unit for a recent acoustic gig. He found a rat had crawled in one of them and died. Stinky!!! He should have kept them near cats instead, rat problem solved! My drummer had the fuzz eaten off of his mallets by mice in th...

marc61 wrote:Jaco

Flea

I always wanted to see a "Bass-Off" with Lemmy, Les Claypool, and from my 'hood- Pete Steele of Type O Negative

The Ox

John Paul Jones

Geezer Butler

Paul McCartney

Mike Dirnt

Jason McCaslin (Sum 41)

Mel Schacher

Mel and Don Brewer were TIGHT!

Where is that turntable now?

Wow, that one stayed white (it didn't go where mine went).