Stub Mandrel

It really winds me up when people use a time machine to copy my posts 🙂

You could say they are 'going through the motions...'

If you can live with a reliced bass, then the Flea bass is a great way to get one with that spec.

Video working really hard to show how well they all were getting on...

The deal is a baseline and doesn't say anything specific on the issue, this is seeking an exemption from the standard rules. It's generally accepted that we will be negotiating on less 'headline' issues like this for years to come. Particularly worrying is that CITES rules will apply if you take your precious instruments to Europe. Wait for the fuss when a £1M violin with ivory tuners gets confiscated...

Great! Today I saw Guy Pratt and Lemmy both using the same four-note chord shape 🙂

It may be partly the isolation process, but to me these tracks always sound more middly, more handling noise, much less even between notes and more 'human' timing but always very different from what you might hear from a demo of a bass rig...

Petition: Seek Europe-wide Visa-free work permit for Touring professionals and Artists https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/563294

Are you going to do a vid of Flea's Jazz basses?

Also even without it's not impossible to imagine it playing OK. I had a go of a mustang a few days ago and ran out of frets but could 'bluff' fret 20 on the G string by pressing it down onto the tail of the fingerboard

Question... Why do people assume the fretboard downstream of the last fret needs to be at the same level as the fretboard in the fretted part? If it rises rapidly after the last fret to be level with the top of the frets the join will be (almost) seamless.

I am always fascinated how what sounds like fantastic bass tone in a song, once isolated, sounds nothing like you expect.

Back in the 90s very time I set up to play along to albums I would almost always put Watt or Shhh on the turntable at some point. Ten Years After a band I sadly only ever saw once - their all guns blazing return at reading '83.

A light head and portable cabs. Something in surf green. Something ugly with a humbucker in.

Our club is full of remarkably normal people, at least normal when we aren't discussing our shared interests when it can get very weird. Last year someone gave a really good talk on Tardigrades (the honey badgers of the invertebrate world).

I plan to make one when I finally get to South Wales. Unlikely to get any rickies in it though... I'm much better with metal than the brown stuff, although I did make this:

In my early thirties, thinking I was too old and the bands I was in not good enough to achieve anything beyond local gigs. Looking back, I could and should have pushed, particularly the last one as we had a really good songwriter.

For what it's worth I am most impressed by Si's dovetail joints, starry mitres, foldable stands and his cunningly wrought box. We now need to see a five-station bass rack*. *For temporary rickenbacker 'storage'.

"The strange thing about that song [20th Century Blues] is that it's actually a cover of an old Noel Coward tune, but for some reason the way the lyrics are delivered makes some people think it's about a Wazzock from Nepal, or even stranger things." - Robin Trower.

"Factory Condition"