Stub Mandrel

I depped with a band and they said 'we leave out the change!' Put it in at a jam and the guitarist remembered to as well!

Definite yes Saturday:

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Late report... you'll see why. Saturday's Bendrix Rock gig at Penarth Ex's was memorable for all the right and wrong reasons. I help organising/publicising gigsat the club and it was where we had our first gig so I put out a press release bigging up our dinosaur connections. It got taken up by a local paper and I heard stories it was being talked about. Expectations were high but we were down to a four piece. Indeed the drummer and lead guitarist handwrote two setlists of what we could do after setting up. We also had our mascot for the first time. Around this time I got really dizzy while setting up some simple lights. Tried rehydrating but was so bad when we soundchecked with War Pigs I expected the rapidly expanding audience to disappear. This was unusual as people normally arrive at quarter to nine. We had lots of new faces arriving from eight. I did recover a bit but wasn't 100% right through and had a nasty wobble and nearly fell backwards playing Saturday Night's all Right. We went down a storm. Right through the first set we got not applause, but cheering. We played War Pigs, Paranoid and Crazy Train (we had to from our list) and this went down well, of course, but so did everything else. We finished saying we literally had no more songs (our current full band list is about 10 longer). But after several minutes of chanting and roaring we gave in and our singer said what do you want us to repeat. They all shouted "Muse". Fortunately it was Uprising not Hysteria! I turned up the sub on my octaver and you could see the audience's glee when I shook the whole building. Don't say people don't notice bass. It took longer to deal with all the handshakes and well wishes than to pack up. Several people said how much better we were than our first gig. I've been to literally hundreds of gigs there as it's my local club and I can honestly say it was as packed as I've ever seen it and the best reception I've ever had for a gig. People spilled over from the 'Music Alley' into the lounge, but were coming in to join the dancing. We all agreed this was why we gig, and we donated a modest bit of our fee to the raffle for the stroke association. I packed my gear, dropped it to my partner's nearby house and walked to the pub, feeling a little wobbly. I joined her and friends but managed no more than a sip of my Inches cider when the bar stated pulsating and swaying. She walked me home (I was crashing into walls and generally swaying like a drunk). I didn't get to the loo before the first 🤮 I ended up on the floor for three hours, my brother came over as we were told four hours for a priority ambulance. They got me downstairs somehow and I was lying in the porch contemplating how to get to his car when the blue lights appeared after less than an hour. Cutting it short, it's probably severe positional vertigo. I puked so much I had to go on a drip but thanks to the wonderful NHS and lots of pills/IV, I am recovering and hoping to go home soon. Waiting on a cat scan to be sure it's not a brain injury. So good and bad! I gave the Performer an outing. It sounded glorious. This really doesn't give an impression of how full it was.

Lenny Henry!

Be aware that some Kays have little value, but the better ones are actually rather hood and yours is in that category. Not worth a fortune but not a throw-away. (From a man with two Kay basses and a guitar, both inferior to yours).

In BR we have a policy that everyone must approve all songs. We have two crowd pleasers which we endure to get people dancing. Otherwise the setlist is songs we all know and love or have been suggested and received enthusiastically. We frequently get praised for our setlist 😁

Hope it works. Plüm duff would be embarrassing.

See the endless posts moaning about Fender not wanting to do anything different... Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

You could have learnt it in the time it took to write that message.

If I inspect my AVII closely it is pretty much flawless. My Squier 40th feels nicer to play with a satin neck and sounds very similar. But I love the Fender

What's interesting to thois debate aren’t the few people with extreme views either way, it's what range of instruments/ brands do people with experience of many basses typically think. One guide could be this thread: Most seem to have a broad selection including a good sprinkle of Fenders. There are a few who choose one maker, or even one style.

I have to ask... is it big enough to store basses in?

I have an AVII, a Mexican Flea Jazz and a Japanese Performer. I also have three Squiers. They are all great instruments. I didn't buy the bad ones. Support your local music shops so you can try before you buy.

The oroblem with collagen supplements is that for the body to absorb them they have to be broken down into bits - the same as any other protein. Rather like dismantling a lego model to push it through a hole. Just as you can make a multitude of things with lego, the body will use these bits to make whatever proteins it needs. Any balanced diet with plenty of protein is just as good at supplying these bits, and there's twelve time as much protein in 100g of baked beans as a typical collagen capsule. Usually the collagen in the capsule is already broken down but the gut is damn good at digesting protein anyway. The other issue is the body is full of collagen and won't necessarily target the joints that have wear.

YMMV

hmm.

83 or 84. Only because t'internet tells me 83 was Richard Thompson and 84 Hank Wangford.

Ws90 and 80 pair the same way.

The rest of what you need to know:

Won't be joining. My Kay collection.

I have a few active basses. I prefer passive ones for various reasons, although active ones have their place.

Blimey Google Lens actually correctly identified my pic as from the early 80s.

Just wish I could remember what happened...

I'll think you'll find that was the ShakeyCam 😁