Stub Mandrel

A few cents is not much. "According to Ellis, when two notes are played together, a difference of 2 cents is noticeable, and a difference of 5 cents is heard as out of tune." It could well be cheap strings, but it might not be. Have you checked the intonation? I check after every change of strings. The 12th fret harmonic and fretted note at 12th fret should all be in tune. If it's still noticeably out of tune near the nut, then the nut probably is a bit high and needs careful re-cutting. Virtually no instrument will be spot on for every fret, everywhere.

Lol. Look like a pair of dodgy geezers down the pub then...

I was impressed by our singer/guitarist. He's early 20s but very confident and did a great job with the crowd, even got them clapping and singing along. He understands that the best way to convince a crowd the band is really good is to tell them they are!

No, but it's obvious it will cover the Ray Wilson period. The titles just chime with the popular view his period was an aberration. The Genesis equivalent of the Star Wars Holiday Special.

Mint.

Well that pretty much airbrushes Ray Wilson out of histoiry...

Goes with your headgear? 😉

Shhh... there's an unwritten law that Kiss fans never mention his cute pussycat nose...

Fender Katana was guitar only. Twin humbuckers instead of one IIRC.

Indeed, if Fender had used their wits they would have registered it back in the early 80s to stop Warwick ripping it off.

Great to meet friendly new faces and see others again. Big shout out to Mike and the wonderful Kitchen Crew and their Marvellous Munchies (and limitless tea, thank heaven!) I got distracted by all the wonderful basses and missed the cab shootout DOH! Thanks to Mike and everyone involved in the organisation and for bringing along lovely basses, cabs and even stranger things . P.S. that's a fantastic photo of @scrumpymike by @stewblack) P.P.S. Dropped in on my brother on the way back, turns out his band is starting back up, rehearsing next week and a gig booked already 🙂 P.P.P.S. He persuaded me into doing a pre-order on a Green Epiphone Embassy instead of waiting for one to come into stock. Let's hope it's a good one!

Lol. Hearing it won't be a problem...

Absolutely knackered after last night but once the caffeine kicks in I'll be on my way.

Well last night virtually nothing we played was like the original... the other band I'm in are happy to spend 20 minutes deciding which live performance of a song we are going to cover, and the singer spends hours studying how the original artists phrase each song.

Last night was my first full two set gig with a full band for about 26 years. Bluesfire played the Two Brewers in Chepstow. I had been sceptical of the amount of gear - pa, lights, banners, miked up drumkit. But the sound was immense - I took a five string, only used for one song but with the pa it shook the whole building 👷‍♂️ 😅. Only down side was hum, so I ended up using the jazz with both pups on full for almost every song. The list of upcoming bands showed this was a pub keen on blues rock and they were totally into the music. We played two sets of about an hour with an encore on top. On the way back m4 was closed so had to detour through cardiff, managed to get 6 hours 😴 now working myself up to going to the bass bash. Really buzzing 🙌

That could have the same driver as my Orange Crush 25 which sounds pretty good for its size? But the cab is a lot smaller and is presumably optimised for guitar without a reflex port. It sin't sold as a bass speaker. There's the Elf 1x10 which is cheaper than the BF 110, but it costs and weighs more than the PJB C2...

I have an AT212 slim

He already has a Hotone Nano bass amp head

At last rehearsal our guitarist randomly called me a solo - he likes my walking line to Summertime Feeling Good. I'm kind of dreading that he does this at tonight's gig. It doesn't help that the song is burned into my muscle memory in Gm and this lot do it in F#m.

Oops. Accidentally bought one. Could be a good Xmas/Birthday pressie for my brother too.

Part of the reward for surviving divorce. There's also the Blackstar Fly Bass. I have a pair(!) of ordinary Flys (Flies?) and they are good enough to play clean living room bass through at a low level.

It's not in the realm of great banter, but it always makes me smile to hear Neil Young namecheck 'Steve Clone and Steve Clone'.

Somewhere I have a (~30 year old) Maplin nominal 1 watt amp powered by a PP3 battery, about 4" square in the shape of a combo. It has a jack output as well as a teensy speaker, it sounded remarkably loud through my old Marshal JCM 16R 1x12