Stub Mandrel

Hmmm...

Good god! Makes spaceflight look simple. That was awesome... I hate musicals but I'd love to see that!

Great idea! Good luck.

I would live to play my AVII enough that the finish starts to wear off it. Aside from that I like rotating basses, especially to rehearsals. Took my Epiphone Embassy to a rehearsal for one band. They couldn't believe its looks or sound and asked e to play it at every gig...

Any correlation between Chris' hand movements and te vass sound appear entirely coincidental...

Yes and maybe. If you wire two in series they may work at 9V, but these £2 cheapies rely on the internal resistance of the power source to limit current.

Oh no it doesn't! 😁

A Honer B2 is the equivalent of a Steinberger Spirit these days, which retail at about $400. We live in glory days of inexpensive basses.

To me, expensive means paying more than you need to. So I'm firmly at £1,000 as that's where the law of diminishing returnd really kicks in. These days you can buy a bass perfectly capable of the standard required for any stage in the world for comfortably under £1k. I paid over that for a couple of basses and a couple that would have been more new. The extra pays for things that aren't actually necessary that take them into the realm of being luxury items where you choose to pay more. 25 years ago or more, you had to pay proportionally a lot more to get something of the quality you can get for £500-£750 these days.

Thanks. We're home now and she's sleeping at last.

Excellent, hope it's a banger!

It's also a demonstration that although high mass is different, different doesn't automatically mean better.

A few things have got in the way! I'm sitting next to my partner in hospital, she broke her humerus. Hopefully heading home soon, but as I will be at hers* for about a week things are on hold! *I'm not sure she would appreciate me setting everything up in her lounge.

Looks a cool venue. How did you tame the drums on stage? Surely you didn't actually get a drummer to tone it down?

On selling tickets, seems I missed out on a banger of a gig by my brother's covers band & support on Friday. 110 capacity, the sold 100 tickets at £8 in advance and kept back 10 for the night. They worried about struggling to sell them.