Stub Mandrel

Bootleggers on Womanby Street would score highly...

The Stranglers come to Wales.

The dark night colour is great (more than great), but please get that sticker off... it's got me scratching at the screen!

Presumably it's too late to tell them to RTFM?

One of my bandmates is in a (much younger and trendier) band. They hit number 1 in the UK physical singles chart last year with an EP. (CD) It was recorded 'as live' at a well known studio but was still surprisingly affordable. At our last gig he told me it had broken even at last. The two biggest financial boosts they have had are a creative industries grant and being playlisted by Radio 1. Everything is being reinvested in the band and they are gigging like mad*. *which is a pita as it means the band we are both in isn't gigging much.

Of course you could sell t-shirts with a qr code to download your latest single. If your t-shirt caused people to download a virus, would that make it malicious soft-wear?

My brother gave me a block-type one at Christmas. I think it was to make sure I don't break the headstock of any of his Gibsons when tiddling about in their internals.

Pull the other one!

Poor Scott really could do with a script. If only he could get straight to the point now and again.

I've finally finished my 100 year old(ish) John Gray and Sons 'Dulcetta' zither banjo. I had to silver solder the tailpiece and tension ring, then make a flesh ring (I cut down an embroidery ring). I fitted the goatskin myself, having last done this on a banjo mandolin in about 1983. I also had to make the bone nut from a guitar size blank. The first string snapped twice but I was able to thread it through a bit of plastic tube for protection from the rather severe ben in the tailpiece. Strings are Aquila nylgut. Tuned GDGBD. Or will be when they stop stretching! I love the engraved cover for the tuners. The positions of the tuning knobs bears minimal relationship to the strings. I fitted them all so winding away fom me increases tension... for my sanity.

What makes you think he hasn't?

I repaired sheared off neck screws on my 1976 Epiphone acoustic this way. An inexpensive set of plug cutters included one suitable to remove the screw and one that produced a mahogany plug that was a tight fit.

I have an MA-10B which makes this an unlikely purchase, but the bluetooth would be good. I use the wee amp to practice in my partner's front room and fortunately I can now BT into the stereo which takes the gas away...

And try different PSUs in the switcher.

What happens if you move the bass around or rotate it?

Yes. Lots of valvey goodness with enough class D headroom to crank up.

That's what I love about my Orange Terror, it's easy to find the 'golden zone' for different basses.

Musical integrity!

Glenn Cornick was awesome. But much later Tull bassist Dave Pegg is my hero

Should add, I aaw the Ian Anderson + session musicians version of Tull a couple of years ago. The bass player massively simplified it! I was well miffed, if I can play it anyone claiming to be in Jethro Tull ought to at least attempt it.

Lol! I've tabbed the whole thing because the online tabs were so bad especially the fingering choices. I have an official Jethro Tull songbook and it is utterly wrong... I think the double stop parts are simplified. Actually got accepted by UG! I bet it's different from yours! https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/user/tab/view?h=lmJUuipOVdeIcBzbyJjyAK3V&tab_id=12151325

This. In, ahem, spades ♠️

I suspect things are different for every one of us. I'm in two covers bands, recently recruited to an originals band and currently looking at songs to help out another covers band... fortunately many of those do fall into the 3 or 4 chord bag - but not all! After performing my favourite bit is learning songs. If only I didn't keep getting distracted by songs I dont have to perform... 😁 As for tablets... it's really down to how people use them. There's no excuse not to learn straightforward stuff, but I've been known to look over someone's shoulder when jamming a song I haven’t played before. The main issue is with vocalists... some use it as a crutch and lose their connection with the audience, others just use it as a safety net.

I think most of us can cope with stuff that's a bit more than three or four chords from memory. Even the odd bit of Bach 🙂

I still come across a few venues with a really noisy light... in one it's the main stage light, so Jazz bass with both pups on max all night!