Stub Mandrel

I would have like to have discovered that first song around 1985...

Unfortunately, they killed it. And not in a good way.

The African answer to Slipknot! Or maybe GWAR. I bet they are awesome live. Did anyone else spot 'I Feel Love' as the basic riff?

Well Joni, Joan and Tracy got sorted in the first few posts... also Janice! Laura Nyro someone mentioned, perhaps obscure but yes, wonderful singer. Lots of great folk singers Sandy Denny, unassailable. Also Maddy Prior, Jaqui Mcshee. Donna Summer. Shirley Bassey. Floor Janssen (is that right?) is impressive too. Sonja Kristina. Lana Del Ray can be good even if she overdoes the breathy bit.

Or rechargeable 9V PP3s with lithium batteries and a voltage regulator built in. They are the dogs and have more capacity than an alkaline PP3!

Nothing! I once bought an IC, it was about 1/2" square. It was packed between two foot-square plastic frames. In a box, with vacuum packing. In a larger box, with paper packing. In a box about 2 1/2 feet square. I think someone had a sense of humour... From the same company (CPC) I still have a box I use for odd musical instrument parts like tuners etc. It has the word 'OVERPACK' on the side in large letters, which seems more than a little shameless. Oh dear the SoCo is starting to affect my typing...

Country music, such a tragic waste of talent 😁

Google proffered me a link the other day. I can't remember the band/guitarist (fairly well known) but he claimed to have come up with his 'own' scale. it actually sounds good, I figured it out as a harmonic minor with a sharp 4th giving a sort of cross between harmonic minor and blues scale. <edit> Sorry the point is a trained musician is unlikely to come up with such a thing, although doubt more radical composers try such things all the time.

Sorry; it's not often I exercise such self-restraint. I won't do it again.

As for the price. It's only sick squid.

Pristine and unused, as it should be 🙂

I'm in for one. If you'd asked me what colour my Fender ones are I'd have said orange... How about a BC Plectrum - it would last forever.

Yes, but playing 'nice guy' then dropping the bomb 'I have started a thread' it's not surprising things didn't mellow out, and makes the request to remove the thread more understandable.

To me that email reads as: I am being as reasonable and polite as possible, please can you find a way to come to an agreement with me. P.S. In case you haven't noticed, I have dragged your name through the dirt in public. You can be as polite as you like, but following up with a threat makes all the polite stuff look like cynical manipulation.

Going down, E then up to the F Going up, D then the F Based in what sounds right.

It's from the intro to Foreplay/Long TIme by Boston. Of course once I put my phone away, within a few minutes I was playing it confidently and accurately... honest!

Well I can report exactly what the Hardly-Bent-One / Deathburger P-bass sounds like. Because after messing around with it for a few days I can say the basic sound is like hitting open piano strings, very rich and rounded but not bright (that will be the Fender flatwounds). In fact it sounded exactly like a well known track which I have tried to learn over the last ten-minutes and record on my phone, but my sight reading of tab (even at quarter note speed) isn't too brilliant so apologies for the stilted timing and obvious fluffs, but I hope you will be able to recognise the tune and the tone is, to my ear, spot on! Sound of the P-Bass.mp3

With respect, 100E seems fair to me for what are some small imperfections. Any larger sum seems to be trying to get compensation for the poor customer service as well. This thread getting longer doesn't actually make your case any stronger and might even undermine it by making you appear less than reasonable.

I didn't drill any holes in this one, but where I have had to drill holes in guitar bodies, I have one of these 🙂

Custom simply means 'made to order' so as it wasn't simply taken off a shelf somewhere but was assembled to meet a customer's order requirement, it's custom.

Refreshingly devoid of heavy metal cliches 🤣😉🙂

Thanks, but I think I've abandoned it now for reaper.

Yes, I asked their advice, but now I wish I had used sanding sealer or grain filler, even though it was already treated. The sides are like a pro job, but the front and back are stippled with tiny grain marks. I would use most of the colour coat and maybe not bother with the lacquer. Any sanding after the initial prep is literally a gently rub over to make it feel smooth. I did get two runs, both of which I was able to sand out after an hour's drying time, then respray.

I found it easier to play in tune with my eyes closed than with in-between dots, because I keep 'correcting' my fingering into the wrong place.