Stub Mandrel

If you made 18" scale 10-string instruments to suit teddy bears, would they be Pooh Sticks?

Hardly a unique property...

Cripes! You can buy a headless bass for what they charge for a neck headpiece.

It's entertaining and well played, but like a lot of jazz-funk it falls down in the 'solid tunage' department. Vulfpeck would never pass the Old Grey Whistle Test.

Is there anything special about 'jetglo' or is it just marketingspeak for 'black'?

I don't think you can criticise the band for being commodified in that way after the fact. Their impact was huge and at the time I felt they had saved music from dissolving into a mush of mediocrity.

No, Ashley Hutchings is Fairport, Albion Band, Steeleye Span etc. Pretty much set the mould for traditional UK folk-rock bass if Dave Pegg set that for bass as a melodic instrument in folk rock.

He uses a lot of odd timings and syncopation in his songs. Monkey Wrench is tricky.

That bass player is channelling Ashley Hutchings 🙂

I like many of Krist Novoselic's basslines, even simple ones tend not to be cliched. We do In Bloom and that's fun to play and challenging to get teh right feel, you need to be 100% locked in with the drummer.

I've successfully taken part in meetings using zoom messenger, google hangouts and microsoft teams. My video out is rather poor, but everything else works. Skype refuses to recognise my camera. Some of these have participant limits but hangouts has raised the limit from 10 in the last week, not sure if it will now be enough but it is one of the easiest to use. Teams won't work with Firefox but I use the app or I could use <spit> Edge.

Sounds like a guitar totin' head-to-head face off to me!

Discrete, understated, tasteful and refined. Just a few of the words that might be low on the list used to describe that carnival of geetars! Seriously, that looks a collection that's really fun to own and play.

The legendary 'better knob' 🙂

For me, an Ashdown bass should reflect the 30s styling of their logo, perhaps a stainless steel body resembling the Chrysler building...

Doesn't that prove the case, the Ashown that isn't essentially a clone is visually the most interesting?

Amazing that they are still going, yet it wouldn't surprise me if they went on tour supporting Europe these days...

Greenslade, fantastic prog band that never got the attention they deserved. Nice bass too...

It's possible to take plenty of classic design hints and still come up with something that looks new and awesome, while having enough familiarity not to offend. I think this looks far better than many 'boutique' basses:

Yes... but isn't that the point of a union? During a major dispute the union staff are doing more to earn their pay than at any other time, and surely unions need to lead the way in terms of fair pay and conditions? It's not like union members can't change the rules if they want to. I'll leave that there as its veering close to politics.

Err... isn't that a bit like saying Bros were over-rated as serious songwriters?

Raising the art of Bass Luthiery to new depths...

The only album I ever took back and ganged was by Willie Nelson. I bought it by mistake after hearing (Bill) Nelson's Red Noise as a schoolboy.