Recent content by Thunderbird90DB

Ive just got a few quesitons about the T'bird coz im planning to sort it out in the summer hols... 1. wheres the best place to install a new strap nut so i can counteract/stop completely that awful neck dive? 2. is medium gauge strings ok to use in order to tune down to BEAD? am i going to...

Hi all, i was just wanting to experiement with the above tuning. ive got 34 inch scale bass and some standard medium guage strings on my bass. any advice?

Im just wondering how to play funeral metal. i like Swallow the Sun a lot and have been playing a lot to their songs. i own a five string so thats gotta be good for those low notes. is downtuning a good idea? any good bands i should try and learn the songs of? id like to do a style of slow and...

aw dude!! thats some awesome pics!!! thanks a lot! :) did u take them at a show?

hey guys, i found only this video of him, heres the link. its only 14 seconds and a bit blurry but you can see his bass is white and pointy! so perhaps a charvel? but then again he specified a jacskon bass in an interview. Have a look at the vid, theres a couple points you can stop it and check...

Thanks man! ill keep that in mind when im looking for that tone :) do you know anything bout his bass thought?

Hey all, ive just been looking into Paul Grey's basses. I know hes a Warwick user, but theres some clips of him and the band wearing red jumpuits which must be from the early years of Slipknot. I notice Grey is using a white Jackson lefty bass - anyone know the details and which albums he used...

hey no problem! maybe i cud get in touch with rondo music i think, and enquire as to shipping. thanks for your advice guys! :)

Hey all! Describe your dream bass! Mine would be a sleek BC Rich Warlock style passive 5 string, perhaps with a mean Traben bridge and a cool design on!

WOW!!! just checked out that MTD! amazing looking bass and i wanted to buy it the moment i saw it! will be restless now!

thanks guys! very quick replies :) will check out all basses mentioned! :) thanks for not being sarcastic too, i hate those kind of people!

What i want to know is why isnt there a decent quality budget model 5 string bass thats passive? it really bugs me! I have an Aria STB-JBDX5 jazz bass 5 string copy and its active, i dont wanna get rid of it but its active and i wish they made a passive version of it!

ah i remeber that tour! thanks for replying dude! means a lot :) yeh watching him on some videos just shows how proficient he is and totally amazing. i think hes really downgraded his playing recently, just following the guitars, but i love the attitude he plays with! :) martas awesome too! have...

Anyone know any good bleeding through tabs?