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Stub Mandrel

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  1. Stub Mandrel
    Makes me want to give up 🙂
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    There, you're now part of the fun 🙂
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    Led Zeppelin? Electric Light Orchestra?
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    I think he was playing Master of the Universe - wrong...
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    I'm tempted by these: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mens-Bell-Bottoms-FLARES-Jeans-Trousers-Corduroy-Cords-Hippy-Paisley-60s-70s-NEW/292537426266?hash=item441c96e15a:m:mjXvAPT0hVckGeiQgoDZpHQ Except I just blew a fiver on a new labcoat in anticipation of Hawkwind's 50th birthday tour 🙂
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    Asia. <ducks>
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    Commercially, not musically!
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    But it's roasted....
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    I gave it to my brother, it's been lent to various people, one of whom added the stickers; he died and it was recovered from his effects and no-one can bring themselves to peel them off. At the time I just accepted the bass as it was. Playing it now, it has a ridiculously low action, teensy frets and wide but shallow neck, P rather than J width. The bridge is very hefty and decidedly superior to a Fender one. Only played it through a little Line 6 practice amp last weekend. It does seem to be the original pickguard as some (not all) the marks seem to match up, it's also a very odd shape as the steel plate is asymmetrical so a jazz plate wouldn't fit. I bought it new in about 85?
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    Just love that song. But if you have dance skills like that, why waste them on imitating a crazed chicken?
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    A couple attached to very small 8-string basses.
  12. Stub Mandrel
    I think Action Man #5 has overdone his daily rum ration...
  13. Stub Mandrel
    Some poor deluded soles don't understand what this forum is about and end up floundering around.
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    It's like why students feel teh need to get piercings, tattoos and dubious facial hair. They want to look as roadworn as us genuine boomers 🙂
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    @ped is right, it's marketing guff designed not to help you choose P or J, but to give you some rationale for whatever choice you make, which hasn't quite hit the mark and ends up damning with faint praise.
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    Steve Chambers - a mate of mine.
  17. Stub Mandrel
    Argh! I've been exposed to Stryper!
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    How's this for an extreme bit of fading, the two pictures are about 32 years apart, I was briefly reunited with the bass over the weekend. In contrast the wood seems to have become a nicer, darker colour.
  19. Stub Mandrel
    Is that twerking...?
  20. Stub Mandrel
    Just learning that. Get the basics down (dead simple) : the extra bits, little runs, harmonics are fairly random... that's how I'm going to do them anyway!
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    LOL! Been practising playing guitar accompaniment to some of my brother and SIL's songs. I much improved one bit but it took google for me to prove what I suspected - I was adding in a 13th chord 🙂
  22. Stub Mandrel
    I din't mean dyslexics can't read music; I meant that if you can't read music despite trying and teaching you may be facing similar issues to dyslexics. There's a word for it - dysmusia and it's thought that even some pro musicians have it. It's not linked to other aspects of musicality, although it might stop some people from getting into music. I sincerely suspect that I may be affected. I suspect we are 'equal and opposite'!
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    I'd got to 'I wonder if otehr things are going on in the drummer's life?' before I read that...
  24. Stub Mandrel
    Try a stuffed crust pizza instead, those thin and crispy ones always drip.
  25. Stub Mandrel
    I got invited to waggle my knees like Dusty Hill.
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