Stub Mandrel

Get out a tape measure, it will all be clearer. As @BassBus says the 12 fret is fixed. For a 34" bass it's 17 inches from the nut. Typically the saddle for the E string will be somewhere around 34 1/2" from the nut. (The first harmonic's node will be at 17 1/4" rather than 17", but we don't notice that.) When fretted at the 12th fret the free length is 17 1/2" . That extra 1/4" of free length lowers the pitch of the string by enough to compensate for the increased tension when fretting. To prove the effect, just fret the E-string at the 12th fret, pluck it and bend slightly, by the same as the action, say about 1/8" to 3/16" (or 1/4" if you are Carol King!) The change in pitch you here is pretty much the amount the saddle displacement has to compensate for. It will probably be rather more than half a semitone on the E string. Bend the G string by an amount equal to its action. the pitch change will be a lot smaller, which is why the saddle movement is less.

Well that's got us flummoxed. And going all myxamtosisialodian on us!

He did have his moments, especially on the early albums, before his singing became a caricature of his real voice.

Can't argue with that!

Can anyone see the difference between these two, other than price and the 'custom shop': https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Fender-Custom-Shop-62-P-Bass-Pickup/XM7 https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Fender-Precision-Bass-Pickups-Original-Vintage-Design/R9M Both Alnico 5 magnet, original 62 construction, same wire, same resistance... 30% price premium?

Ah yes. Fantastic songwriter.

And Richard Thompson, vocally more than the guitar.

Thread search not working very well here at the moment. The software used for this forum sometimes does a full index rebuild which can wreck the search facility for a day.

There is - buy a copy made before they trademarked the shape. Rickenbacker may not like it, but it is legal. You can't make something retrospectively illegal all Rickenback can do legally is stop people selling them as copies.

@stewblack by a short nose from @wateroftyne This wonderful version with Trevor Burton on bass and (strangely) no Richard Tandy keyboards so sounding very different to the single. Burton was originally guitarist, but after Ace Kefford left he shared bass duties with Carl Wayne. All before Jeff Lynne joined.

GETTING COLD! Flowers in the Rain was very, very close!

Did someone summon Crazy Uncle Ted?

Oh so close - but no sitar cigar. 🙂 🍇🥛

In the UK we have 'passing off' which is selling goods or services giving the customer the impression they are someone else's. I can't see Dean being copped for that, but the laws in the USA are different and I can't claim to understand their subtleties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_off

OK, Stew's guess gets the genre right even if the Goodies are a pastiche. The bassline was as played on Top of the Pops by someone better known as a guitarist and linked with the Pink Fairies...

About 100 miles out...

Me I think! This will keep you for a bit (I hope...) The original song doesn't have an easily recognisable bassline... but this is what they played live. Sorry it's not to fluent, I had to relearn it!

No probs! I've gone and got one now anyway!

Go on, 'ave another go!

And there we have it 🙂 Pumped up kicks, Foster the People...

Tsk! I meant I'm waiting for one I can actually identify... and I have made my contribution!

I'm just waiting for someone to post 'Peaches'...