Stub Mandrel

You aren't playing often enough 🙂

Funny thing after the last gig. In one song the guitarist left a big gap for me to drop a 'solo' into 😵. I dropped in several bars of sub-standard slap. Afterwards his dad (who does the sound) said 'In all along the watchtower your bass started making some really odd noises' 😱

Turned up mixer 30 miles away ... had to fetch my brother's from 10miles awsy. No soundcheck. Stonking gig. Lots of dancing. Much silliness and rocksyar posing. Lots of random improv, musical chaos. Didn't get to the end of setlist but went way over time by stretching songs that had folks dancing. Promoter over the moon and promising to book us more, another guy with three venues (in my home town, yay) took our details too.

This popped up in my feed, don't think I have posted this before, from 2019 - the days before the plague and the war!

My mate had a very red P-bass with a white scratchplate when I was at Uni 81-84 and afterwards. From memory it wasn't as deep a red as that but would have been similar age or a year or three older.

I can vouch for Luthier's Warehouse bodies.

I made a Harley Benton kit as a lockdown project. It actually came out well, fitted withdecent strings, it sounded great. I ended up upgrading bits until only the neck and some screws were original. Then I got hold of a squier neck and built a second bass from the bits. The only weak points were the very soft body timber and the pickguard being very far from standard P-bass. Best bits were the excellent neck and, surprisingly, the pickup.

This, my basses have a 10:1 value ratio. The correlation between quality and value is weak. Between what I paid and quality is no existent, my most valuable bass was the on I paid the second smsllwst amount for, thd build quality is excellent but I have better sounding cheaper basses.

The question on which this thread is predicated is disturbingly like "when did you stop beating your wife?"

Apparently the delicious double bass on shipbuilding is by Mark Bedders.

Found some fun things. Wild World, until I realised the tab was the guitar line not the rather pedestrian bass. Cars. Then the original Robert Wyatt shipbuilding 😻

This one does an excellent job of 'Cars', despite its light construction. <edit> 30" does that count as short or medium?

That's proper lush, that is.

Accurate tab for The Riverhead by Fairport Convention 🙂

f it's just for appearance, Stagg sell braided cables that are actually reasonable quality for not many £££. I have a couple for when I want a vintage vibe.

I need to sell a bass to raise funds and make room for a new couch.

This is an excellent reason to have multiple basses, some with flats and some with rounds.

I just use it as an open invitation to edit it and post more guff about flatwounds, lemon oil, heft and Pepe's legendary emissions.

It does make me wonder how many people know that 'ms' is short for 'mistress'.

Saw this ad on Facebook. See near the end.

Utterly unapologetic British Heavy Metal, delivered immaculately. Having seen Saxon a few weeks ago, their stage show is tremendous, their performance excellent, and they are genuinely even better than they were when I was a teenager clutching my copy of "Wheels of Steel".

Sorry Lozz, don't agree! For example, there's a very good tribute called "Lady Bowie".