Stub Mandrel

I know my mate's first song was probably Spirit of the Age. For me something off this list (which was after we'd done a fair few gigs) but probably c 'mon everybody. The photo is the actual first gig.

An extra F# in passing back to the A or have I got the wrong end of the stick? Judt found it sounds wonderfully naff if you slip in th major 7th now and again 😁

I use a miniature ratchet strap for peace of mind.

Self-consistent field, an approach used in Hartree–Fock methods in quantum systems.

Local band the Hindenbergs (yes they just play Zeppelin) last night. Very good indeed. Their bass player Taif Ball was in Killing Joke for a while. We used the tops of this Mackie pa last week and will again this weekend.

My AT212 slim claims to be -3dB at 32 hz. Sensitivity 104dD. I nade the error of using a five with an octaver and no hpf once. At the end of the song my amp was balanced half off the top of the cab...

I'm spending a few hours noodling on a five today, just to minimise the chance of 'wrong string' incidents at tonight's gig...

I know the situation. It FEELS lower for some reason. A slow bowed E on a good double has has way more presence than the low B on many fivers.

Why does bowed double bass sound deeper than plucked or slapped double bass or electric bass?

He's gone full circle!

<gags> Audioslave!

It's a JAZZ Stylophone 🤣

Well yesterday I got a WhatsApp pointing out Gasoline is on the setlists for the weekend, checking we want to do it. Of course everyone else does. That means I have to bring a fiver... (it seems the original may have been on a four tuned BADG!) It's not brushing up on the song, it's that I now have minimal time to refresh my fiver versions of enough songs to make it worthwhile. Now what idiot put the setlust together? Oh...

This is a great fun one to play but I can't imagine trying to do the organ part as well!

It's becoming the new Sex on Fire... I prefer this version:

I suspect enough for it to be put to one side a decade ago... then refound and donated without being checked. At least I got ripped off by a good cause...

Oft said. Curiously my Fender Performer (a 4 although legend says a 5 prototype was made) which has 16mm string spacing was made specifically to appeal to a burgeoning market for 'slap' basses.

I can barely see it! The chameleon bass... 😁

Arguing about preferences vs. playing your bass

Just remembered I have tail end of an amazon gift card, with black friedegg I just got a metronome for £3.54.

My Blackstar one has a basic drum machine built in. Only a handful of patterns but more inspiring than a metronome.

Don't forget, it anglicises as 'godzilla'.

Flats v. Rounds? Frets v. Fretless? Active v. Passive? P v. J? Bongo v. Toilet Seat?

Shhh... that's my achilles heel.

And a ranje switch...