Stub Mandrel

My brother gave me a battered strat to fiddle with. I looked up the serial number and told him the good news. He enjoyed much hilarity at my naiveté* *horay for spill chickens!

Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the people has a great groove 🙂

I keep my Hohner B2 in a case I picked up (I think) in the Birmingham Bass Centre in the late 80s. It's got a logo on it (detail pics to follow) of a Union Jack with Hewson and a pre-01 style phone number. The case is beautifully made of heavy duty plastic mouldings and even has rubber seals around the edges. I assume it was intended for a Steinberger as it's a bit upmarket for a Hohner. Has anyone else come across a 'Hewson' flight case? - Google claims no knowledge of them! Does anyone else have a mysterious bass case they would like to share?

I need a new keyboard - this thread has me weeping tears of laughter into my old one... You do know Spade Cooley beat his wife to death with the blunt end of a Shittenbacker? The ubiquity of the p-bass is because 95% of sound engineers expect a bass to go dum-dum-dum and make anything else sound shite...

Stopingp being a bass player is like stopping being able to ride a bike - you might get rusty, but you will always be able to pick one up and have a go I haven't been in a band for over twenty years, but I still enjoy practising. I'm sure a few times I've gone a year without playing bass, but I always had an acoustic guitar in reach. It does go up and down in my priorities, bit I'm keen to find a band again as my circumstances are subtly different....

Well they certainly sound different but I confess I haven't used them since Methusala was a teenager...

Band I was in used to play that some 30+ years ago. Problem was I had never heard the song so I just made something up...

Missed smiley alert 😁

So you quite like it then ? 😀

Elites groundwounds? (I can never understand why people want to fit tonekillers AKA flatswounds) 🙂

Looks like you are right - it is several decades since I last listened to it properly 🙂

I took a photo on my phone at a gig and the band retweeted it 🙂 This thread is confusing the right to stop someone taking photos and the right of someone in a photo to control its use. Landowners can stop you taking photos, but they have to tell you not to - for example with a sign or terms and conditions. Local festival, no sign, no t&cs - Take your photos. You can stop someone using a photo if it breaches your privacy - same rules apply as any other 'public' place bearing in mind the law interprets privacy in this case according to how people are behaving not whether it's private land or not. Walking along a mall or in the crowd at a gig is 'public', in the changing room or as part of a small group doing an activity together isn't. Compare to performance rights: " Performances are considered "public" if they take place in a public place and the audience is outside of a normal circle of friends and family, including concerts, nightclubs, restaurants etc. " If you are standing on a stage in front of a large group of people, any right you have to control images can only be if they are taken without permission when there's a ban in place. That's my understanding of the law as it is now.

Yeah - but four good ones! And there's the nice little run down. I had a vague memory of the drummer playing with a pair of fish on TOTP - I was delighted to discover it wasn't a "fake memory"!

I recently got a Squier Vintage Modern Jaguar SS just for fun, but I'm rapidly falling for it.

Almost inspires me to fit this here Jazz ashtray to my Jaguar :-)

Interesting . My Performer is 16.4, 5-string is 14.5, lawsuit P-bass and Jaguar both 18.

How much do you rely on open strings? You could try just dropping the tuning, play two frets higher and enjoy being able to do a bit of death metal on the side...

Always surprises me how many shops don't understand the best way to sell a guitar is to have it set up properly. It may seem expensive to do, but many shops have someone who happily works through the new guitars during the quiet periods. I was in a local shop and someone was re-stringing and setting up a real cheapie, I overheard the owner saying to them that it will get someone started without spending a lot - I like the attitude that it's worth setting up every guitar so even a raw beginner gets a decent start.

I agree, it amazes me how people complain abut strings being too close together for fingerstyle. Have they never fingerpicked on an acoustic guitar with a set of 13s on it? My Fender Performer is super narrow, but plays like a dream. Try playing mandolin 🙂

I've had to replace the input jack. I also fitted those nice red sliders to the EQ, look sooo much better than thi nasty little white blobs.

A shopping mall is 'private land' as well, but it still counts as a 'public place' as far as photography and privacy law is concerned unless a sign specifically prohibits photography. I didn't say they should be, however I was thinking about CCTV within private property*. There are people who want are CCTV banned. There is very clear guidance from the ICO, which is probably much less draconian than people think: https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/domestic-cctv-systems-guidance-for-people-using-cctv/ https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/domestic-cctv-systems-guidance-for-people-being-filmed/ *Burglars should not worry about internal CCTV, it is still legal to set a mantrap within your hose between sunset and sunrise to deter burglars in England.

I 'tweeted' them, but only on Saturday and no reply yet. I was hoping someone may have one handy as I had it apart at the weekend. May have to use the phone!

As showing a price is clearly stated to be a legal requirement at https://www.gov.uk/product-labelling-the-law surely some public-spirited customer of any shop following this practise should report them to their local Trading Standards? I did go into a shop before Christmas and asked to try an Ibanez 6-string (AS53, a 335 copy). I asked the price out of curiosity (it wasn't marked) and it was significantly cheaper than I expected for the build quality so I bought it. The shop owner was very surprised and spent some time looking for a price (all the other guitars had one). I was surprised but he went on his phone to find a price! Later I was having a coffee in Costa and looked up the reviews to see what a lemon I have been ripped off for... turned out the guitar gets almost universal 5-star reviews and the price I paid matched the cheapest I could find it on line. So I highly recommend RIver Music in Ross on Wye.

I've always wanted to cover Tom Hark 🙂

The burglar who says his human rights were breached because you caught him on CCTV... An interesting example of how people can be offended was featuring someone's forum (not this one) gallery picture (not of a person) in the magazine associated with the forum. Clearly covered by the forum T&Cs (which were expressly designed to cover this) but started a stink!