Stub Mandrel

No, although we've exchanged a few comments on his videos. He comes over as a really decent guy. I'm always struck by how easy it is to follow his videos (perhaps with 0.5x speed for the tricky bits) and they always seem to be much more accurate than most tab.

Troy gets a tone to die for on this - using a Jazz (and the guy has got a Ricky...)

Not the music I was expecting from a band with a name according to the Black <noun> formula.

It's funny. I commented elsewhere hat I'm a by-ear player who uses tab as an aid to understanding. I like to learn things properly, simply because avoiding any shortcuts means I have to stretch myself and as a result my playing continues to improve. Unlike many people I often prefer live albums to studio ones, warts and all, because I like hearing musicians enjoying themselves and enjoying the freedom of playing live. I'd rather hear someone play what's right at the moment rather than trying to slavishly copy a recording. In my own small way, playing live it's when I get a chance to improvise that I have most fun and the best bit of my last gig was when we needed and encore, and I called a song we had only played once together. The structure disappeared, I just followed where the vocalist went, and it was great fun and the audience loved it. So why would I be interested in tabs of some of your Whitesnake classics? Mainly because I'm not convinced of some of the ones in places like Ultimate Guitar and I'd rather start from something accurate rather than a rough idea, then decide what works for me. That's how I'm, very slowly, working through The Real Me - first challenge is just learning all those parts and variations, second challenge is getting into the guts of the song so I can just play along and cope even if it ends up with an extra verse or the bridge in the wrong place.

I'm really a by-ear player who uses tab as an aid (rather than a guide - for a start I almost always change the fingering).

Dishwasher does a better job than the old boiling up with Persil to restore old strings.

The best tab uses 'notes' with numbers instead of heads, so it shows the rhythm in the same way (I can 'read' rhythm, but not pitch, don't ask me why, I don't know). I hear different to what's written for some songs, just like shuffle rhythms are often an 'approximation' of what's notated.

I doubt the cold will affect the structure of all metal strings, even with bronze on steel the differential expansion effect will be negligible compared to coiling and uncoiling a string. If you had aluminium alloy strings, then potentially there could be an effect, especially if recently heat treated. For sensible string metals, no effects happening at those temperatures. HOWEVER... Temperature cycling does 'age' metals causing internal tensions to dissipate, which might accelerate the ageing process. So continually putting your strings in and out of the fridge might be bad. SO MAKE YOU MIND UP!

I don't read music, but I've noticed that a lot of tab (even 'advanced' tab that shows note durations like notation) can't really show syncopation and repeated listening is the only way to get the original 'feel'. I find imitating the rhythm (like some low-grade human beat box) really helps me get an unusual rhythm into my head.

I got one from Aliexpress for slightly more than SFA ($35), got here in about a week from China, arrived today. I thought it was for guitar so I was going to give it to my brother. But it's for bass and ultra cute so 🙂 Still haven't done anything more than watch the pretty lights and scratch my head looking at the instructions...

My (and a whole day's worth of patient's) Flu vaccination has been put back until 19th as the supplier failed to get the delivery to the GP last week.

I hate 99.5% of all Christmas songs. Merry Christmas Every Body and Santa Claus is Coming to Town (by the Boss) both stand up as good time songs on their own. But I do like this as well:

Back in the 90s I always used the pre-EQ FX loop of the three (count 'em) loops on my Laney ProBass. This time round I just use them between bass and amp.

I had the Black Watch and the Scientific Calculator 🙂

I was thinking "I hope that's one song per line..."

Or even produce a tab version for mere mortals like me ... 🙂

Boggle...

Hey, this is a man whose production could make your career...

Not normally a fan of G&L, but I quite like the look of that. It would only work as an SS though 🙂

You clearly don't buy the idea that over-long cables lead to signal degradation 🤣

I love the bass sound on this. Adrian Shaw. Hawkwind sceptics, please set aside your preconceptions and give this bass tone and walking line masterclass a listen.

I found this fantastic interview with Neil Murray: http://dmme.net/interviews/nmurray.html

I'm starting to feel tempted, I think they look nicer than the real MM TBH...

I think Spondz has explained it much better than wot I did.