Stub Mandrel

Perhaps he steels magnolias.

If this is like many forums, there will be lots of 'spam' and 'bot' sign ups that get deleted but probably still increment counters.

Hohner Jazz copy. My brother now has it (note faded scratch plate and darkened wood after ~35 years). He loaned it to a learner who put the strange paper strips on the neck and hasn't taken them off yet...

Sounds like the original sample may be an old Moog bass pad to me.

Tim Blake 🙂

They are quite puny, I am very fussy about pillow height, so I have three decent ones and use two Morrisons ones as height adjusters 🤣

None more '80s.

To bring some perspective, Smoke on the Water was recorded 49 years ago. 49 years back from Smoke on the Water in 1923 the world was recovering from the Great War and Spanish Flu.

It's the Tiny Terror Bass that has a valve input stage.

That's the operating theatre, where's your studio? 🙂

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Morrison's super-cheap pillows might be a good source for small quantities.

Sounds very synthy to me!

The only music that is truly no good, is any music no-one enjoys*. *i.e. Edith Piaf and yodelling.

I'll raise you Dio 🙂

More seriously, classifying music into genres is like classifying animals into species. It has no intrinsic value or meaning, it's just a handle that helps human beings conceptualise how different music/animals are related. For animals cladistics (bases of common ancestors) is far more objective and insightful, similarly a Pete Frame Family Tree tells you a lot more than grouping bands by genre. It's an analogy that will stand a fair degree of stretching, even if it isn't perfect.

Musical categories are just so Robert Christgau knows who to slag off.

Just received a set of Jazz bass mutes, great condition, in box with leaflet. Well packed, rapid despatch. Cheers!

If anyone has a set of '62 reverse action tuners going for a song, please send me a PM 🙂

Is it fair to say that most genres start off wide-ranging and fuzzy edges and become increasingly specialised, or at least subdivided into highly specialised sub-genres? I think for my daughter trying to explain drum'n'bass, American EDM, house music, R&B, techno, trance, dubstep...

Hello Sloppy Shroppies.

Their songs on the Woodstock album bear testament to that. For me, Truth by Jeff Beck is the earliest album I feel comfortable classing as heavy metal. Probably my best random album purchase ever. I don't feel Electric Flag or Iron Butterfly quite make it, for example.

But did it have width? We need to know.