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  1. Stub Mandrel
    Looked this up today - I'm not an expert on the so-called 'popular music'. I can't believe such an insipid song is so in demand! You must have been burning the midinight oil honing your chops to learn that one 🙂 They call it a Dyson. It sucks and it's expensive, but it still feels cheap...
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    That's your problem: It's not just GLOSS, it's special STICKY GLOSS! But seriously... the finish is obviously prone to this and it's not just you, so I wouldn't lose sleep about matting it down with a fine abrasive - then get on with enjoying it.
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    Not sure if know either!
  4. Stub Mandrel
    It's mistitled. That's Atalantis '72. The speakers are full of seawater.
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    I tried out a bass the other day, It was almost unplayable. The action was so high I thought the bridge needed dropping (one piece acoustic), the shop assistant spent five minutes on the truss rod and gave it back to me a transformed instrument.
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    You don’t have to apologise for anything, the non-bass related things are your life! Don’t build a bloody five string version of this, I’ll have to buy that too... 👍 You need to go into bass building full time. Frank will get a second job and remortgage his home to buy your entire output and keep you in a life of luxury...
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    Do you have a tea chest bass in your collection? 😱
  8. Stub Mandrel
    Because £500 is a bit steep for most beginners? Squiers you need to pick teh right one., The VMs appear to be better than the Affinities (as beginner choices).
  9. Stub Mandrel
    Whooo! I knew about Tele ones but that Strat one is lovely!
  10. Stub Mandrel
    Birmingham emailed back to say they had run out of slots 😞
  11. Stub Mandrel
    None more black 🙂
  12. Stub Mandrel
    Anything with Talman on it is far more lovely than its price tag suggests. I really hope they don't bring out a bass version of the TCM50 because I would have to buy one straight away:
  13. Stub Mandrel
    Stuck on Apache for me. I was hoping to see Avengers Endgame for free...
  14. Stub Mandrel
    Our drummer wants to do it, he complains most bassists slow down by the end - but he very kindly suggested he thought I could keep up!
  15. Stub Mandrel
    If you ask me, the first post on this thread has been taken over by the spirit of Doris Stokes...
  16. Stub Mandrel
    Most of the time when I was gigging regularly I used to have three basses and generally used at least two on every gig (one was fretless). There's a degree of showmanship to changing instruments, and it adds to the fun, plus different basses make me play differently.
  17. Stub Mandrel
    A bit of digging suggests that in the 70's they used it for budget guitars and basses along Squier lines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_Starcaster#Re-use_of_Starcaster_name Wiki says 'the basses were j-shaped' but the only example I've found is a p-bass: no wait! Plot thickens: But at best that one just has the neck plate...
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    Ver' pretty sir!
  19. Stub Mandrel
    Makes me want to reach for the Stylophone...
  20. Stub Mandrel
    Some of the HB ones get very good reviews. I prefer the look of the B30 to the B35, but one reviewer complains the strings on the B35 are too close together, I would probably prefer that! Sound a bit lacking in presence in the video here: https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_b_25m_acoustic_bass.htm The sample of the B30 sounds better. What surprises me is that there seem to be very few duds out there!
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    Err... 🙂
  22. Stub Mandrel
    It's a strange Bitsa. The Fender Starcaster does exist, but that isn't one...
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    Funnily enough we were meeting last night to discuss our plans for world domination, and one of the things that came up was how little thought many smaller bands give to their live sound, especially how it works all together rather than as individuals.
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    Booked a slot, but tough choice, most of my basses have new-ish elites or rotos fitted. Just two which had new but unknown strings fitted when I got them.
  25. Stub Mandrel
    And how could such a totally bad-donkey band end up so anodyne in penguin suits and doing the co-ordinated footwork when they started out like this?
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