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Stub Mandrel

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    It may be partly the isolation process, but to me these tracks always sound more middly, more handling noise, much less even between notes and more 'human' timing but always very different from what you might hear from a demo of a bass rig...
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    Petition: Seek Europe-wide Visa-free work permit for Touring professionals and Artists https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/563294
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    Are you going to do a vid of Flea's Jazz basses?
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    Also even without it's not impossible to imagine it playing OK. I had a go of a mustang a few days ago and ran out of frets but could 'bluff' fret 20 on the G string by pressing it down onto the tail of the fingerboard
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    Question... Why do people assume the fretboard downstream of the last fret needs to be at the same level as the fretboard in the fretted part? If it rises rapidly after the last fret to be level with the top of the frets the join will be (almost) seamless.
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    I am always fascinated how what sounds like fantastic bass tone in a song, once isolated, sounds nothing like you expect.
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    Back in the 90s very time I set up to play along to albums I would almost always put Watt or Shhh on the turntable at some point. Ten Years After a band I sadly only ever saw once - their all guns blazing return at reading '83.
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    Look shut up you guys, let it hang around for a few more months...
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    A light head and portable cabs. Something in surf green. Something ugly with a humbucker in.
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    If this is still here when my divorce is dusted...
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    Our club is full of remarkably normal people, at least normal when we aren't discussing our shared interests when it can get very weird. Last year someone gave a really good talk on Tardigrades (the honey badgers of the invertebrate world).
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    I plan to make one when I finally get to South Wales. Unlikely to get any rickies in it though... I'm much better with metal than the brown stuff, although I did make this:
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    In my early thirties, thinking I was too old and the bands I was in not good enough to achieve anything beyond local gigs. Looking back, I could and should have pushed, particularly the last one as we had a really good songwriter.
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    For what it's worth I am most impressed by Si's dovetail joints, starry mitres, foldable stands and his cunningly wrought box. We now need to see a five-station bass rack*. *For temporary rickenbacker 'storage'.
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    "The strange thing about that song [20th Century Blues] is that it's actually a cover of an old Noel Coward tune, but for some reason the way the lyrics are delivered makes some people think it's about a Wazzock from Nepal, or even stranger things." - Robin Trower.
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    "Factory Condition"
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    I prefer Ozzy singing his songs, but I first saw Sabbath on the Mob Rules tour at Hammy Odeon, and have never had a problem with Dio's renditions. The crowd were chanting 'Ozzy, Ozzy, Ozzy' before the start, within a song he had the audience eating out of the palm of his hand.
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    I've posted this before <ducks>
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    Indeed, even worse than I thought! If you listen to Dio (wot is a proper singist) sing it 'voltages' is very obvious, although it's clear enough when sung by Ozzy.
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    Lyric sites just copy off each other, perpetuating mistakes. Sometimes they copy across obvious errors (e.g. in War Pigs you'll probably find 'treating people just like chess pieces' instead of 'voltages').
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    Don't be put off by title and intro, this is a very beautiful piece of music:
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    I've been infested with the teebovirus, as you correctly surmised... The only cure is rapid immunisation with Marstons
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