Stub Mandrel

A light head and portable cabs. Something in surf green. Something ugly with a humbucker in.

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).

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:

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.

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'.

"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.

"Factory Condition"

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.

I've posted this before <ducks>

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.

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').

Don't be put off by title and intro, this is a very beautiful piece of music:

I've been infested with the teebovirus, as you correctly surmised... The only cure is rapid immunisation with Marstons

Sorry, I should know better than to get Tufty shredding Rickies. Let's cut straight to the chase...

Shred before burning...

A box for Ricky's ashes?

Could someone who is good at this post a tutorial thread on vinyl wrapping a bass? I came across this tuff today, apparently it can be used to create invisible butt joints. I imagine there are lots of other tips and ideas...

Not bought much this year. A cheap condensor mike was a bit underwhelming. Two good purchase were: a MojoMojo which has the mild but audible distortion I was looking for and not finding and a Harley Benton bass kit, which at £78 ranks among my best bass bargains (and I've had several). It's so good I've been playing it no stop for about two weeks.

Is this one of those be honest threads? I wanted to have long hair like a real rock star, and get down with Elizabeth Sladen

Locomotives frenchj kissing?