Stub Mandrel

It's getting very hard to take anything else to gigs!

Another good one at the Earl Haig yesterday. About 80 people in, which is good for the sunday slot. Quite a few came because it was us, which is great. Had plenty of dancing in the second set, which isn't bad for blues! Hopefully better pics to come!

You need the darker times to appreciate the good times. Keep the gear, youll find something with less pressure when you realise you still need to gig.

Bass cases can sometimes tell as much of a story as the instrument inside. Share yours! This SKB was already well used and stickered when our own @ped passed it on, but it's still going strong. The other is a G&G Classic, supplied with my American Vintage II 1960 P. Lush.

True. But then you Have to cope with my application phone spilling.

I got to bed at 2am after our Friday gig, partly because I cooked a snack when I got back (I was starvin' marvin). Did wonder how much of this I could take. Then woke up to a nice comment about my playing (from someone I don't know) on FB and that was worth the 10 hour shift alone!

Have you considered filletting the edges... for comfort. Rounded edges usually print nicely too.

Big small gig for us tonight. Borough Blues Club. It's 'on the circuit' and gets some well known bands, just 12 gigs a year. We are booked for November, but got the call after a band had to drop out. This was their first Friday event (due to the six nations) so they were worried about numbers, especially at £10 admission. It was about half full with forty-odd people and they were happy. Expectations of us were high as the organisers know Alex, our guitarist. Two hour long sets plus encore. We had eight(!) new songs after Wednesday's rehearsal, with the aim of serving up a setlist for an audience serious about blues. So we had a few hiccups- I muddled one song for another, and we had some miscommunication about keys... but got through it. But sound was excellent and we enjoyed ourselves. Fortunately the reception was as good as we could wish for. Not just the usual goog gig comments, but I got complemented on my playing (which I though was a bit random with a fairly big chunk of improvisation). Best bit, at the end we were told that our November gig will be packed as the word will get around 😎

Whipping Post by the Allman Brothers Band. I'd had a bit of a listen, and we jammed it a couple of times at rehearsal last night, now I've got to learn it properly, and we're going to sound check it on Friday ahead of a gig where we have 7 or 8 new songs lined up. Just a modest mix of 11/8 and 6/8 with a few tempo changes... It's a good blues venue that's 'on the circuit' so no pressure then...

Pre 1980 and eyeshadow more or less covers it?

You were there... who shot first?

Been disappointed that Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons only had one Welsh gig this year and that was part of Planet Rockstock. Then yesterday they dropped gigs at small venues in three corners of Wales. Managed to get hotel room for the weekeend and tickets in Narberth, a small town in Pembrokeshire. Will be awesome, a band who can get Wacken stomping but are incredible in smaller venues (about 450).

I'm still interested to see what new posters say about themselves. I read, and if long, ignore.

I've got a big bluesy weekend coming up at the end of next week.

Recalling my training in numerical taxonomy some forty years ago, I did consider the potential for using multivariate analysis in order to place amplifiers in some sort ot multidimensional space... but common sense rejected it... It's interesting to speculate what the variables might be, but it must be done by the makers of emulators and modelling amps. Blackstar's mini guitar amps have a knob that changes the sound from 'american' to 'british'. You could have multiple sliders for 'heft', 'grit', 'warmth' etc...

Not a bad thing to keep their music in front of live audiences I have friends in tributes to all three of those bands!

Heft is "BASSY PUNCHY FAT PRESCENCE EDGY" all at the same time!

Is there an 'upsurge' in AOR tributes... Steely Dan, Fletwood Mac, Pink Floyd etc. Is it just my imagination?

A simpler version for amps with three channel EQ might be: BASS MIDDLE TREBLE WEIGHTY BLOATED HONKY STEELY HARSH BASSY PUNCHY FAT PRESCENCE EDGY TIGHT BALANCED SWEET LIGHT SCOOPED MELLOW THIN WEAK MUDDY

OK... here are some thoughts, if anyone has Affinity Photo, you can try editing it... Describe Sound.afphoto

I hope you manage to get one together before that 🤣

The Elf has a 400Hz cut with the tone controls flat (as does the Warwick Gnome), see the amp tests linked above. The pre-shape tone was much loved by slappers like Mark King. It has its uses.

Exactly, indie isn't a style, it's just a mixed bag of non-mainstream bands.

It was just my perception at the time, I suppose I was starting to think about my career and future, and starting to feel I'd got past the age for something like that.

Better descriptions here, it associates frequency ranges with many adjectives. https://www.google.com/url?q=https://michaelrasbury.org/uva/images/notesimages/describingsound.pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwipxbbnjOODAxXuQEEAHWf1CgAQFnoECAQQAg&usg=AOvVaw23D_KEk0mDXYR0QPQBWawl