Stub Mandrel

Here's a funny thing... You say your palms sweat... the palms of our hands only sweat when we are under stress, not when we are hot. It's thought that it improves our grip a little - useful in most stressful situations but not if it makes you fingers stick to the strings... But i'm all for rock-star sweat bands, check this groovy one out 🙂 Mostly these days because they reduce my risk of RSI from my wrist rubbing the body of the guitar!

Get two squares of plywood bigger than the dent drill four holes in them,, matched up as a pair. Bolt the squares either side of the grille over the dent using bolts small enough to fit through the grille, really tight.This should flatten it rather than distorting it further.

For home practice, Orange Crush 25.

Does that count as psycho-billy?

That would make a great album cover. You could call it "Couldn't Get In Through The Locked Door".

Sorry, but that's the way I felt - underwhelmed. BTW, it was the music as a whole, not specifically the vocals. Clearly there was a plan to split the performance into two distinct halves and finish on a positive. I just hope there weren't too many people who slunk off, worn down by the first half because the second half was very good.

Cut out of leather from an old sofa, kept in place with double sided tape.

I wasn't suggesting it was you who hit it!

I was totally underwhelmed by the main set, just the usual thin droning sound with lacklustre vocals. Then the encore came and they did all their cheerful, bouncy stuff and it was very good.

I couldn't understand why a mancunian was putting on such an awful Liverpudlian accent?

Not if you give us one!

🤣 Oh deart, but it looks like someone's 'it it wiv an 'ammer!

Until the second encore (which has just started) I thought they had overdosed on mogadon... if ever there was a band in desperate need of a fuzzbox!

Watching the Cure live now. Entire band having another bad hair day decade.

Call me an old fart if you will, but the Chemical Brothers set is awesome... Then Liam Gallagher with some confused person in the audience holding up a sign "WE ♥️ YOU NOEL"

I've had another idea, but I think it's too pervy to post...

I've always had a selection of pedals, but they seem to have bred recently. It's probably just GAS - anyway my board is full now. The one thing I might do is upgrade the nasty cheap wah I've got, although it works fine as a 'tone control'

You could get a shark-skin strap - might get a bit bloody if you play shirtless...

I agree that preferences in bridge designs are very personal. I like the headless Steinberger ones best, there is an allen screw to lock them solid.

A Dwarf appears and throws an axe at you.

I agree that if you change string height, you need to check and may have to adjust intonation, but not the other way around. When I set up I like to set string height then adjust intonation. With your arrangement won't adjusting intonation also affect string height, so you then have to repeat the process a few times to get it dialled? With an engineering eye I would prefer a mechanism where the two movements are independent.

Ah. I didn't understand it properly. It's a aggressive fuzz with the option to add in the octave up. I thought it switched between up and down. I thought the Ashdown sounded 'Royal Bloody' when played around the 15th fret. So... I can't get deep subharmonics with this, shame but it DOES get the Roger Glover crunchy sound I was looking for.

Or even ZZX?

Why pick on the Killers? There are zillions of bands who have had more drastic lineup changes. No different to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio and Carmine Appice, if you are still playing the same music. Would anyone other than the most committed Ozzy dieghard have said that wasn't Black Sabbath back in the mid 80s? I'd agree if the music had changed significantly, like later versions of Sabbath that were intended to be Iommi solo projects. The difference here is they have left the door open for people to return.

I think I would have found plenty to enjoy - Stormzy sounds like he gave one of those gigs that you wish you were at whether or not you are deeply into the music. Dig deep into the list and there are some gems. Hawkwind headlined the Acoustic stage on saturday. Bootleg Beatles there today (not yesterday...) Steeleye Span, Fatboy Slim, Billy Bragg, Proclaimers, Chemical Brothers Even Bring Me the Horizon as a guilty pleasure (my daughter was into them as a yopung teenager...) But 100 stages? And other festivals across the UK. Fifteen years ago people said the internet was going to kill live music.