Stub Mandrel

First time round in eth late 80s/early 90s I did one gig with a 12" combo, then got an 18" cab, then switched to a stack of two 2x12 cabs. Could never understand why 15s and 4x10s were de riguer for bass and 12s were ignored. Very different now, so I was way ahead of the curve 🙂 Now my favourite setup is a 2x12 (vertical Bill, don't panic!)

Lots of Ten Years After I thought I'd look up the bpm: Muppets!

I've never heard of a bi-flex before. Presumably it can push against the plug to bow the neck, like a double acting truss rod. Begs the question, has anyone, anywhere, ever had to use a truss rod to increase the bow on a neck?

Hi Tension seem to have used Fenders in 1978.

Found this fantastic interview with Victor Wooten by 'Julia from Thommann'. Some great stuff and some sensible comment that every slaptastic shredder ought to take to heart.

A quality octaver could be your friend.

On the whole, the albums with jaw-dropping bass playing skills I don't find hugely inspirational. Even thoughs that I like such as School Days, Heavy Weather and Hounds of Love. The album which had me playing along more than any other (probably about once a week) in the 90s was this one, surprised the needle didn't come out the far side of the vinyl. <EDIT> Actually it's SSSSH! I used to play along to all the time, the bass on Watt is a step up and often way past my skill level then, although I did work out Think About the Times which is one of my favourite walking lines. Any way, Leo Lyons is massively under-rated. Also many albums with Dave Pegg on.

I had to remove small amounts of material (from the body) to attach a Squier P-neck to a Harley Benton (kit) P-body. The neck was rounded at the end rather than cut across flat.

Anything off Born Again by Black Sabbath? I think you are being a bit paranoid, most songs are well mixed, it's only a few albums (Metallica's And Justice for All) where the Bass sound is completely trashed.

Anything off Born Again by Black Sabbath? I think you are being a bit paranoid, most songs are well mixed.

That was an idea that really flew...

Dang taht's a good one to learn. I've been playing with The Super Natural by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.. which went on to become Black Magic Woman by Fleetwood Mac and again covered (well) by Santana.

If you've ever struggled to de-lacquer bass components (I have) to clean them, Windsor & Newton do a gloss spray for artworks that dissolves in white spirit. I've used it to protect clean and polished brass on a Westone and it would also be idea as an easily reverisble protection for piole pieces

Our got cancelled, we're in Wales and playing to 30 people is not likely to bring in a lot for the pub. Still, it was nice to be asked.

Great case and a nice strap, nickel strings, lemon oil and a pointy stick to keep those who say don't use it at bay.

Sound pretty evenly balance on my (decent) PC speakers, although the bass is bottom-heavy.

Bass Centre was next to Snow Hill

I have just given my brother (the folky one) my first proper bass amp, a 150W Laney Pro-Bass head together with a 2x12 cab I made containing a pair of 80W Mackenzie PA speakers. Along with a Phoenix/Celestion 2x12 these were my main gigging rig back in the 90s, and I last used them (for a single gig) in 2019. Despite a massive emotional attachment, having acquired a two practice amps, two heads and three cabs this year (as well as other stuff picked up in the intervening quarter-century) it's good to make some space and see them go to someone who won't just enjoy them but has a good chance of gigging them as well.

Can I just say I fully appreciate what this post is about, the only thing I could take issue with is that the Santana album Marathon was released in September 1979, so it technically post-dates the emergence of Level 42, although it's well before they issued any vinyl.

String gauge Action Variations in dimensions of neck, body and bridge Nut height How well the intonation is set up Always amazes me how two basses can have the bridge pieces arrange quite differently, when I set them up for similar action and adjust the intonation in the same way.

My last two houses have had walls with a thick layer of 'vintage' plaster, which greatly benefits from some form of 'binder'.

Parley not surrender.

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Mushroom teapot that would be? Mayhap Aldous Huxley could throw some useful light.

I was being humorous 🙂