Stub Mandrel
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Good luck, hope you have a great bash!
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I got a year's discount after the AA took 11 hours to reach me, despite me telling them multiple times their automated system had obviously gone bottom up.
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I don't know about that 😁 blues fans are into Tedechi/Trucks!
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The Hoochie Koochie Band in a small pub, the Eagle, in Narberth. Very good, deserved a bigger audience. Bass player was exceptional. Night before, Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons in Narberth Queen's Hall. As brilliant as ever, lively packed out croud in wee 400 soul venue, they just done three very special home gigs in North, West and South Wales to complement their European tour. Hugely appreciated by fans who got a long and varied show. Loud* but excellent sound. Followed by mellow sesh in pub meeting locals, then took very basic pics of fading northern lights. Impressed I could use pro mode of my phone camera in a state of somem inebriation. *but not stupid loud. My phone app tells me I've seen significantly louder pub bands.
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The gear
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Drove back from seeing Phil Campbell then watching pub gig in Narberth over the weekend. Utterly knackered. Bluesfire played Cubanas in Barry, always good for us, as crowd into blues rock and guitar pyrotechnics. As I was getting ready to load (gig less than a mile away) had non-stop thunder for 5 minutes out over the channel. Managed to load as first rain came scattered big drops, but got in car and then it went biblical. Sat outside venue for 15 minutes until it stopped. Got in, to find guitarist's dad stuck in rain with pa , lights and puncture. Used venue pa and lights (as good as ours, better monitors, but vocals only). Meant a speedy knock down later. Numbers a bit low due to weather, so started 15 minutes late. Numbers picked up to be ok for venue but not as many as we expect. Familiar faces and some new ones. Alex got the crazies and did some mad solos, I played my '76 mij Maya fretless (really overdoing the slides and posing with frantic arpeggios) and Flea Jazz. Alex dropped me into a solo so I got the crazies too. On one song Alex called The Hunter. Paul started drumming Walk In My Shadow, and I started the Hunter as Alex came in with Sultans of Swing 🤣 somehow we all settled on Walk In My Shadow by the first change. Another song my high d started feeding back, in the playout solo so I had some fun with that. Felt like were were jyst having fun while people watched. Despite this, went down really well and we were bombarded with great feedback, especially for Alex. Several people promised to come and see my other, new, band on Saturday our first gig in Barry. Walked out on a high, promoter said he'll come to my gig on Saturday too. Nothing for us until July now, but got a good bucket on top of fee, so we were able to stash enough for rehearsal studion end of june and get extra each. Now radox bath...
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Damn, love the idea of a punk birdy song.
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Tom Petty is popular in the UK, but others are less well known.
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I find it impossible to dislike CB. First, he's genuinely musical, even if it's not really my taste. Secondly, unlike most YouTube slapmeisters, he gigs and is in two real bands.
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This is the plate on more recent examples (note those for sale are the same MKII version): -
A pair of large, powerful 2x15 plus tweeter 4 ohm PA cabs. Unfortunately, during covid they stood on a concrete floored garage and the bottoms rotted. I needed a PA, and he gave me these, so I cut off the rotten basses and fitted a new base to each one. The new bases are the same grade of chipboard as the originals, the wadding reattached with staples, bases glued with foaming Gorilla glue to ensure a seal and screwed in place, a new strip to cover the edge of the mesh, then sprayed black. The 'felt' cover material has plenty of holes etc. I have patched some of them up by gluing the felt back down, but those shown below are examples, not all of the tears. I also fitted heavy-duty corner protectors and heavy-duty rollers to make them easy to transport as they are heavy (35.5kg). They roll really well, leant back and pushed forwards. When upright the rollers are off the ground, so safe to stand on a table etc. I have used them for gigging, and they work well and sound great (although I had an intermittent issue with one speakon socket - the other one on this cab is fine) and sound good. The same cabs are used by a local Rehearsal studio and stand up to unimaginable abuse from death metal bands... My only problem with them is that a pair of 2x15 cabs take up too much room in my relatively small estate car. I need to sell them soon as I am collecting a pair of 1x15 cabs on Monday and need the space to store them! These speakers spec plates state 450W Music Power, but this is incorrect. The Thomann Website and corrected plates on more recent ones say 450W RMS, 1800W peak. As my brother ran them very hard on a 600W per channel PA (typically multiple vocals, fully mic'd drumkit) for several years without any problems. These are one of Thomann's top-selling PA cabs. New these would be £410. To reflect the condition, I'm asking for £100, but happy to consider offers/sob stories. The only catch is you have to collect from Barry, South Wales. Equipped with: 2x 15" + 1" Frequency range: 45 - 15,000 Hz Sensitivity: 121 dB SPL max Impedance: 4 Ohm Rated power: 450 W RMS/ 1800 W peak Dispersion: 90 x 40° Input: 6.3 mm jack/ speaker twist combo connector Dimensions: 495 x 420 x 1030 mm Weight: 35.5 kg Questions below, as per Basschat rules, message me if you want to make an offer. Thanks for looking
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What's the bass/instrument you have had longest?
Stub Mandrel replied to Stub Mandrel's topic in General Discussion
Wow, loads of interesting stories! My first guitar was a nylon one I put steel stings on and destroyed, but I still have its successor, a KT-2 cheap as chips thin plywood body 'SG', much modified. Must have bought it around March 1980 as Running Free had not long charted and was the first song I tried to play on it. My first bass was a Hohner jazz copy (similar to but predating the Arbor Series). I must have bought it in 1986 looking at my cv (which is a bit shaky on dates pre-1988) I gave it to my brother 10 or 15 years ago, but he still has it, the pickguard is faded to an incredible two-tone colour. Secretly, I want it back 😞 I still have my second bass, a Hohner B2 that my brother converted to a lefty, gave to me, and I converted back the "DEATHBURGER". All original except the finish and knobs it has had several finishes - white, then refinned white, then painted with sunset and standing stones, heavily stickered, carbon effect vinyl wrapped, then stone effect paint! Gigged it in the late 80s to 96 when I lost my way, and did all my proper band demo recordings with it as it sounds incredible. Since then gigged (once) and jammed with it recently. Oddly, I don't have any decent photos of it, and it's at my partner's house being easy to tuck away in its custom fit case (bought s/h for a song in the old Bass Centre in Birmingham about 1988/9). -
Inspired by the year of birth discussion, what's the instrument you have had longest? NOT your oldest. Is it the instrument you learnt on, or are you an inveterate flipper and It's only weeks old? Or something in between and does it have a story to it. If it isn't a bass, what bass have you had longest?
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Well I would love a '62 P and Jazz, but even settling for an AVII P and a Flea Jazz was a stretch for my finances!
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My Mate had a Stingray IIRC. Recall it not being brilliant. Yes... I remembered it being green like a Trace Elliot. Although it seems to have been a cobra like this.
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Always a good one, we have plenty of fans in Barry 🙂
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This. You really don't want a speaker lead failing just because someone caught it under the corner of a cab.
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Now I have a decent sofa again, I need to do a new pic (or set of pics 😬)
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Work of the devil!
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Probably before your time, but does anyone in Leamington remember Head In A Helix?
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Other way around, I haven't heard his solo stuff but got several Max albums in the early 80s.
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Decent gig tonight in Blackwood. Took my Thunder 1 and used it for the first set. Was a biker pub so the blues rock went down well. We knew dj on later, and about 20 minutes after we finished the jukebox got cut off a short way into a Metallica song, and awful club music started. By the timecwe finished packing up the clientele were almost completely different. I wore my Ryuk/Deathnote t-shirt I got sent from the USA which always gets more compliments than my playing!
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Max Webster?
