Stub Mandrel

Best of luck with the future Jamie, and thanks for organising past bashes, including the two I went to. I'm now in South Wales rather than just outside Burton otherwise I would offer to lend a hand. Actually, being where I am, a Bass Bash south of Brum sounds a very good idea... do they still rent out the big rooms at Arrow Valley Visitor Centre 🙂

Wow, where are you guys finding this shiny stuff. Share it on the TE Facebook Group, people will faint!

Not keen to be honest. They seem to put a bit to much emphasis on feel, and songs like 'a remark you made' rely too much on melody and emotion rather than trying to showcase their technical proficiency. For goodness sake, they dont even have proper carpets on stage. I think I'll go burn my copy.

Sounds lime you are where I was a few years back. One thing I do is find a reasonable tab for each dong i learn, edit it down so the essentials fit on one page - enough to get by. I now have loads of songs that even if i have forgotten I can pick up again quickly.

When switched on, but not a big noise. For some reason it is really well-matched with my Fender performer. With the gain around 3 o'clock I can get clean sounds right along the neck by being gentle or dig in for crunchy distortion. I always think the mark of good distortion is that it doesn't rapidly fade away after the lowest octave or so.

That is an truly awesome performance.

Did that thread start?

It shrinks further...

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?"