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I used to drink tap water, but now I only drink 'Peckham Spring' bottled water.

Careful with wearing contacts for longer than recommended. The cornea needs to absorb oxygen directly from the air. Some contacts let oxygen through and some don't if you wear the non-permeable ones for too long you'll mess up your eyes.

I've allways got a Bad Monkey on and a Tech 21 Bass Compactor. The Bass Compactor is widely derided as a noisy POS, but I like it :)

Same here. For strings it's standard Roto 77's. For picks it's best to try all different kinds and see what you like. That's harder to do with strings because they're too expensive to buy 10 different sets in one go, just to throw most of them away. I used to think you should use the...

It's an interesting subject. This interview with Ned Steinberger touches on it. http://www.nedsteinberger.com/inside-ns/interviews.php From what he says it seems there's an an inverse relationship for volume. Acoustic volume is energy being drawn from the string to produce the sound. You need...

Fender VI? Invalid Link Removed They're normally tuned E to E (Octave lower than guitar). Getting strings for lower tunings might be a problem, could be worth starting a thread asking If someone's tuning one of these B to C.

Fill and redrill is the best way. If you can't be bothered with that dip a couple of matchsticks in PVA wood glue and drop them in. Then screw the part in. You should end up with mashed up matchstick and glue setting to fill the gap. To repeat. It's probably best to just fill and drill. Can't...

You'll get much more useful responses if you tell us what you want to do with the amp. Are you going to be playing in bands with it, or is it for home practice use? What sort of music do you mostly play? If you're in a band what's the set up? i.e. 1 or 2 guitars etc.

And then you started building speaker cabs? :) I'm guessing shagging means something different in the states. In the UK that statement would mean that you'd spent the afternoon enjoying -- to the fullest extent -- the company of several lady friends :)

Where's your thumb when you're playing past the 12th fret? I have small hands, and my thumb is towards the top of the neck in the lower positions, and as I move up the neck it moves towards the middle of the neck and by the time I get to the 12th position it is actually sticking out quite far...

He'd been lead vocalist on a UK no. 3 single with Hawkwind. Were Hawkwind not big in the states?

You can't do ABRSM grades on electric bass (do you play double bass?) The Rockschool stuff counts for UCAS points [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] As does the Trinity College London stuff http://trinityrock.trinitycollege.co.uk/instruments/bass/grade8 They've got some Jaco in their syllabus...

The various copies of Brian May's 'Red Special' tend towards a wide nut width (around 45 mm) but I honestly wouldn't worry about it too much. It can vary a bit, my dad had an old vox teardrop with a very tight string spacing, but both Fender and Gibson (and their derivatives) have a reasonable...

All my current bands stuff is on here. I'm also slowly adding a load of old stuff, so at the minute the newest stuff is the oldest stuff http://soundcloud.com/gavinspoon

I don't disagree with any of that. Get fit, stay fit and everything's easier.

Risk of CTS is closely related to general physical condition http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8509465/? High body mass index is a risk factor for CTS Invalid Link Removed Invalid Link Removed

I suppose we'll have to wait and see.

I used to change the speed of my record player to do this. Higher speed = higher pitch, lower speed = lower pitch. These days I rip a song to a .wav and retune it in Reaper. http://www.cockos.com/reaper/

You too. Riff I referenced above played in BEAD. I dare ya.

Take your sterling and post a clip of you playing the riff I referenced above in BEAD. Go on, I dare ya.

It depends on the people and their musical culture. Different types of music focus on different aspects of music and use different scales as a result. Before western music got harmonically complex (by which I mean early music with few or no chord changes) you'd play around with rhythm and...

+1 I've never needed the spare strings, but I always take them anyway just in case.

You can't do them at your desk, but pullups will sort your hand strength out.

Never played it live. I'm guessing you tried playing it with the original fingering without retuning and gave up on that. I just had a quick go on a guitar in D standard, and it was too high for me. I'd try keeping your instruments tuned as they are, but droping the low E string (or Eb for...

I'd put a keyboard app and the cd's on the phone. It's all contained in one small package and ready to go. The only thing that would put me off that is if you need to quickly start stop the audio. I had to do that with some language cds i put on my phone. The phone wasn't cutting it because...

Have you tried playing acoustic through it as is, to see how it sounds? That'd be my starting point. If I didn't like that i'd try a preamp into the cd input (or fx loop if it's got one).

You could use a drum sequencer, or software drum machine. I'm not up to speed on the current offerings. I used to use fruityloops but I don't think you can even get that anymore. The other option would be to record a metronome (you can download free apps for your phone) and manually cut out...

What is it that makes you feel the playing is 'fraudulent'? I'm not seeking to have a go - i've no skin in this game - just curious.

We all love you too xxx :)

Here's a painless introduction to theory to get you started. 'How Music Works' was a British TV series by the composer Howard Goodall; 01 Melody Invalid Link Removed 02 Rhythm Invalid Link Removed 03 Harmony Invalid Link Removed 04 Bass :hyper: Invalid Link Removed His '20th Century...

Here's another one. The Driver with Ryan O'Neal and Bruce Dern http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Driver Full movie's on the Youtube http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QmKLtVA3Mik&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DQmKLtVA3Mik "You know what allways amazed me about you? A guy with your attitude never...

A remake of my favourite film, the original is meaner :) [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]) http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N2sKgsKTeEM&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DN2sKgsKTeEM

Nice design, it's got good ventilation and keeps the weight down :)

That'll work for some people, but it depends on your style. I build some parts based around open strings, as do quite a few people towards the metal side of things. As an example try playing this in BEAD: Everything'll be fine until you hit the vocal line "Happiness....." then it'll get a bit...

I've seen plenty of threads on rehousing amp heads on various guitar forums over the years. Stick 'rehousing combo amp head cabinet combo' or something similar into google and you should get a few decent hits.

So who is the best bassist for metal? :)

When you say 'Drop D' do you mean DADG (just tune the E string to D) , or do you mean drop the whole thing to D 'Standard' DGCF? If you mean D and C 'Standard' then you can tune your bass to C standard and use a capo on the 2nd fret for D standard and 4th fret for E standard If you need...

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Mostly got there in the last year or so, but I still have the odd off day. I'm 37.