Stub Mandrel

This could become the mollusc-pun-thread.

It might be worth dropping a PM to a friendly mod...

Welcome home

Not really learning, but I'm revising La Grange as penance for playing the bassline to Waiting for the Bus - or trying to...

Sounded great I was genuinely shocked when you told me which speaker I was just humouring you when I 'guessed' the larger speaker to its right. Honest.

I had a carpal tunnel diagnosis nearly 20 years ago. Loss of feeling, extreme coldness (like Reynaud's Syndrome). Cured it using mouse mats with a gel lump - but it never really goes away. I wear a wristband on my picking hand as anything rubbing against the inside of, my wrist brings on symptoms. I have to extend my arm and give it a good shake every half hour when driving too.

I'm playing the Windsor in Penarth on Friday evening if you want to say hi 🙂

By a curious coincidence, I found my t-shirt when loading my speaker last night. I will be wearing it to a rehearsal tomorrow.

The bass does more for my thumbs than any amount of anti-inflammatories.

1 October - Windsor, Penarth. 9:00pm ... 8:30pm ... 8:00pm ... 8:30pm At this rate, it will be happening on the 29th...

As a guitar finger-picker, I just tried picking four-finger chords and it's easy enough. Trying to play 'September' across all four stings strict one finger pwer string (well thumb and 3) needed a lot of concentration and wasn't fluent! Riffs with three fingers are easy enough and can get pretty fast.

Sort of. I'd estimate 1 cent flat on the C, E and G. 2 cents on Bb but pretty much on tune for C#. https://pages.mtu.edu/~suits/scales.html

Watching when in Rome on sky arts. Would have been good to see that lineup playing a set of 'classics'.

That gives you a true temperament fifth, not an equal temperament one. Not that the difference is meaningful - about 1 cent.

Having watched two of the car-crash live videos, I'd say that was being fairly generous to Vince Neil; like saying Phil Collins can still drum, just his physique stops him holding a drumstick.

I don't! The noughties were a bit shite in places, but things have picked up since then.

The list was just meant as a bit of fun. Personally I've never been particularly into the 'light heavy metal' of hair bands, although I've seen a few and enjoyed the enough and I even have a copy of Dukken's Back for the Quack. Mind you I like Nirvana and Pearl Jam. And Blur and Oasis.

Misinterpretation, even people with excellent ears can only distinguish pitch differences of about 4 cents at best. You do want to be tuned a bit better than that, as otherwise you can get noticeable beating when playing chords or against another instrument.

They destroyed then in the sense they stopped them reforming. It's no accident that five years after Kurt's passing, they reformed. They looked like a hair metal band when I saw them at Reading in 1983. That posting was intended as humour, y'all know...

I meant the bassline. Phil wasn't the most politically correct of frontmen...

Bang goes my theory then...

There's gratitude for you!

It does give a point to changing key though.

Drummer "Oh fack, I've left the snare off...!"