Stub Mandrel

One word explains all... 'spaff'.

One of them's a bass!

If they are better than Watney's Red Label I might give them a try...

I was quite pleased with myself...

Sussed it B5, E4,A3,D2,G1 Are meant for a 5-stringer. Rather then make up 6-string bags, they just used the E6 from a guitar set. Low B goes in the E6 bag and the others all shuffle along one so the numbers are right. The could have put the high C in the E6 bag, but then the numbers would be wrong.

Let joy be unconfined! 🤪🙂🤡🍻😆

OoH! Nice! I've never seen a square bodied one in natural wood before.

A legendary session bass player; I saw him with Sky ('Toccata', John Williams ) a couple of times.

Darren just played this on Planet Rock: More than a passing resemblance to Deep Purple's Fireball?

The passive ones sound really good and have such a high output. I was asked if mine was active several times.

I got a new mesh-back 8-hour chair a couple of months ago, as the previous chair was worn out. Even though mine was only about £110, it's really worth investing if you work sitting down. (Incidently I ordered it without arms, it came witha rms so i fitted them, discovered I couldn't play bass with them on and took them off again 🙂

Don't sell it. Keep your Aeron.

Yes, but they come in many different specs. Some people have seven Stratchwangler Fritzblasters, all with the same specs and nothing different but the colours.

My acoustic next to my brother's lefty. Even allowing for perspective the Tanglewood is bigger. Note K3WL Chowny strap won at last year's Midlands Bass Bash!

A bit of a dig shows they're made in Korea, Cheap strings probably means less QC although there's always the possibility/likelihood the factory gets an order for X,000 sets from <name redacted> buys in the materials, find itself with 2 * X,000 sets of strings, bags them up and sells them cheap as as a tax write off.

Riverhead Unicorn. Ibanez talman. Gibson or Epiphone EB3.

Did you REALLY have to start him off again...? I've got one of those coming, you know!

I think we'd be a Rory Gallagher tribute if we thought we could get away with it 😉

It's called the 'Skinnyman' app. And they are special eyes, not silly glasses. The greatest mystery is why you haven't got a pair (of boggly eyes, that is).

You could have substituted Bring on the Numbiles (Cocktail version). The story about Peaches is just mischief making by JJ or an urban myth, the story was around in the 1980s and was debunked then.

Carpet laying music...

I'm not sure the typical Pirate studio is big enough too feel comfortable in as a group - you need the A/c on even in winter! I can see people 'sneaking in' groups, even if they policed by CCTV/microphones (they record your sessions) would anyone take any notice?

I suspect there are those who have very clear mental pictures of what they want from an instrument, and spend a long time searching for it, and may turn over basses at a great rate. Myself, what I like most is when basses feel and sound different, and as long as they are capable of being well set up and can be made to sound good through an amp I enjoy the variety. I find it really hard to understand why people may have many basses that are near identical (Ok I have both Fender and Squier jazz basses but they do feel and sound very different).

They were at nearly 10,000 basses in 1994? At up to $60,000 a pop? Where do i buy shares? 🤑