Stub Mandrel

Or this:

Do the original version - we're going to! Forget any preconceptions of Elton John, it kicks (Nickelback's) donkey and the bassline is a stretch (for me) and a lot more funkable than the Nickelback one.

I'll see if I can get over after the Bass Bash 🙂 I assume the rustiness means that of the 27 possible versions of NY you have a large does of Crazy Horse 🙂 I will now check out your vids!

I thought Pro II but the body looks more sculpted, and it's got the humbucker and heavyweight bridge. But ether are a lot of variants, If found a few with the humbucker and body shape on google (but they might not be Pro IIs) but not the bridge, which might be upgraded?

Actually the poles do have a 'correct way round'. It won't affect the sound output but it will stop them humbucking. If the pickup seems 'noisy' especially main hum (move near your amp), reverse one pair of wires.

Tupac Shakur - for the number of millennials who've told me he isn't - 21st Century Elvis.

Having thought about this some more, Ronnie James Dio.

Yes. I want it to be 2:37, just to annoy anyone with a phobia of prime numbers.

I was practising through a hefty Ashdown head yesterday. Everyone was getting a bit fed up as it had a strange chorusy/double tracked sound that was driving me round the bend. I kept fiddling trying to get it to go. Turned out the previous user has turned the 'sub' control up to to about ten o'clock to get a subtle octave. I had assumed it was a control for if you had a sub-woofer fitted. Of course when I finally figured it out, I turned it up full, went to the dusty end and annoyed everyone with some 'Royal Blood' style widdling :-)

When you are young, its a shock when what has always been a constant disappears. When you grow older, you think - me next?

Jim Lea and Don Powell. Listen to their playing on Journey to the Centre of Your Mind.

Our guitarist bought a flying v gig bag for his dughter's SS bass... I made a hard case in the end, 4" shorter than a standard case. I'll post a pic.

One of my favourite songs: Suggested for our gig and the reaction was a big positive. Playing this live is going to be such a buzz 🙂

Yeah, I'm playing the same tracks every day, and every day they get better, but playing with the guys is different - not least because some songs have four or five variations and we are all practising different versions - I emailed round some YT links today to address this! I've nailed one song with two riffs that I muddle up by having two little chants that give me the right rhythm. Plus, I'm making sure I know the key so I can fumble something that fits until i can lock in again.

I got thise email from laney Service today:

Terribly, terribly sad, but dying saving one of her kids? She's a real hero.

The blend/balance audio taper pots are single spindle and a log pot stacked with a reverse log one, so if you just connect the one you will get what you need: https://www.allparts.uk.com/products/dual-500k-bourns-blend-balance-audio-taper-pot-with-center-detent You just need to be sure you use the right one of the pair.

Every variation except the one you need, they have 250K audio taper: https://www.allparts.uk.com/search?q=detent*+potentiometer* Worth asking if they can source on for you? OR... get a detent pot of any type and a 500K log from the same manufacturer and swap the bodies over.

As you are already sourcing on 15" driver, personally I'd get two 16 ohm units and wire them in parallel or two 4 ohm in series. Then sell the spare driver to offset the cost. Or you might want to read this; http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Audio/imped.html and then decide if 2.66 vs 4 Ohms is really worth losing sleep over?

It passed through my mind to buy the plates and fit full Jaguar electronics to my Squier SS. I think I've seen cars with simpler wiring looms... Fortunately the active preamp hasn't arrived and I've decided I'm happy with VVT alone!

Lennon was a big surprise; it just seemed so inexplicable and I wasn't used to losing musical icons - by the time you are in your 50s, you get a bit inured to it. Ian Curtis, not because I was a huge fan, but I was listening to John Peel in the evening news came though and he just played 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' over and again. Lemmy probably the biggest impact; he was just a constant presence in my musical awareness since I was about 18/19 and I love everything he did with Hawkwind. For me, he just personified rock and roll in a down to earth way - a more real, flawed hero, willing to go out there even when he could barely walk. The little grin at the end of this ad says it all 🙂

I'd like to give a shout out to Laney for sending me full schematics for my Laney Pro-bass (as used on Bleach by Krist Novoselic) by return of email. Hopefully, I can solve why the EQ bypass doesn't pass any signal now, and also keep it up and running for the forseeable future. If anyone else needs the diagrams, please feel free to PM me, I don't think they are on the web.

I'll bring a copy of Joe Hubbard's 'Basslines', it's a bit used and Teen Town has my scribbles all over it (I still can't play it).

My current choice would be Myles Kennedy.

In the past my Hohner B2 has been compared to a Rickenbacker sound - last night I found a 'sound' that just screamed 'Geddy Lee' at me, and the Drummer agreed - this morning I found it again in the middle of 'Countdown'. It can do a reasonable Chris Squire too. When noodling on bass or guitar, with or without effects, I often find a sound that does this; sometim,e sit isn't 100% right but it just captures the essence or a classic sound. Other soudbs are more elusive - I've never been able to get a convincing David Gilmore sound and last night I was, again, trying and failing to use a combination of chorus, delay and staccato playing to get the 'pulsed' sound at the start of Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Apparently its done with a rotary speaker a tremelo (volume modulator) but I only have those as effects on a guitar amp. I guess most of us have a similar range of familiar sounds we can capture and those we can't get no matter how hard we try?