Stub Mandrel

This is taken from the long-lamented Starfarer.net website, now only available on the web archive. It's rather short on details but at least it give some structure to get started. I commend High Rise (Adrian Shaw on bass). Hawkwind Bass Tab.docx

I forgot just how utterly, incredibly f***g awesome this was:

Understatement....

Not strictly true, particularly after Lemmy. Some of them have complex walking lines that are made up of several repeated figures, others have signature riffs that are the basis for improvisation. But learning parts of even the most .mprovisational ones can teach you an awful lot. Plus you could also say the same about the Faces, Bad Company, Led Zeppelin and the Who and there's no shortage of transcriptions of their basslines.

This Maya has a blockwood body, but it doesn't look too bad where the lacquer has chipped away.

Brilliant bassline. Check out Troy's cover on YouTube, helped me learn it.

Did this ever get transcribed? The lack of Hawkwind bass tabs out there is alarming.

I suspect my 2.8Mbps connection wouldn't be up to it, especially if anyone else in this lockdown zone wants to go online...

Sounds like a long wait?

Can you suggest a more affordable alternative? Chamois? Parchment? A page of the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Exactly 0.0lbs according to my luggage scales. I know that will too be heavy for many folks...

If they came up with a medicine to treat Covid-19 that was as effective as they are it would have the side effect of putting you into suspended animation every morning for 3 hours when you wake up...

Found this from about 1995, it's me and my brother having fun around a poem by Bob Calvert from the liner notes of Space Ritual. A bit mad and very messy/pretentious attempt at space rock...

Great video on the Hawkwind Facebook group from Dave Brock explaining a 'rough' of a new song about coronavirus! Other members will be donating parts remotely but poor Richard Chadwick can't play his drums as they are in isolation in Brock's shed/home studio. Dave also promises podcasts about his theremin and other gear and to do some guitar lesson podcasts for self isolaters. Meanwhile Niall Hone has released an EP on Bandcamp: https://lordsofform.bandcamp.com/

I'm never sure if you build new basses or just keep refinishing the same one 🙂

If only we could use WinIsd to change the coronavirus curves...

Six reasons to play guitar instead of bass: Lack of any sense of rhythm. Tab too complicated, prefers things like ' G - C -D'. Weak character, lacking moral fibre. Small hands. Thinks 'advanced musical knowledge' is memorising the blues scale. Small willy.

A few days ago I found a print shop in Nottingham that also sells little replicas of famous guitars. They are nearly all six-strings, but the basses include a Stuart Sutcliffe EB1 which is pretty esoteric. Looking for something for myself I eventually spotted a Phil Lynott precision. The guy fetched it out but noticed the scratchplate had buckled and the laquer was peeling off it, so he let me have it for £5 instead of £15. I'm going to see if I can get it off and replace it with a mirror finish one!

Always a fun topic 🙂

But.. where's the other pickup and silver control panel?

Are you sure they are the right way round?

Very short, but just discovered how to download and share this! Apparently the PA used to belong to Slipknot! Bet they didn't play this...

Put mine to shame!

That's not a pedal board it's a command centre...