Stub Mandrel

Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons. B****y brilliant 🙂

My brother was in an AC/DC Tribute band in South Wales, my greatest regret is never seeing him perform in shorts and school blazer... All his current band were in respected tribute bands, but now they prefer playing (mostly non-obvious) covers and starting to do some of their own stuff.

Tip #2 - don't use the SO's toothbrush...

Tie your bass to the back of your car and drive around town, save £££s on getting it professionally relicked* *Is taht how you spell it?

Hmm. I never have done that, on my guitars I always wind neatly below so tension pulls the winds up to help 'lock' the bit that goes through the middle. Never had a wound string slip, but only had flats once (came with the bass and I took them off ASAP)

I've ordered a 26" Ukelele neck to make a custom bass, probably solid body with a piezo pickup and silicon rubber strings. My bro has a Ukelele bass, sound more like a stand up than any electric, but don't bother trying to bend notes!

1. jebroad 2. Len_Derby 3. Jabba_the_gut 4. Spondonbassed - Hohner B2A 5. Andyjr1515 6. Jimothey 7. Mojo 8. Owen 9. Teebs 10. Josie 11. Aidan63 12. Frank Blank 13. petecarlton (newbie) 14. Bassman Sam. I'll bring my NR Custom built Thunderbird, Ashdown 2x10 combo and a MM P-bass. 15. ChrisLovatt (bassbash virgin) 16. Stub Mandrel - Fender Performer (Just realised I was supposed to add myself to the list).

I'll grab a copy when it's in The Works 😉

The gig in my avatar pic! Probably 1987 with Drastic Action 'high energy rock and roll from Kenfig Hill...' Mercifully it was a relative of a band members wedding reception. We had quite a long set list so I think everyone was glad when we ended and the disco started so they could dance. By then I probably had my Laney amp and an 18" cab that weighed about 200lbs. Bass looks like my Hohner jazz copy, now with my brother in Scotland. Sounded great but a really bland bit of wood for the body. I used to think we were crap, but listening to echoey old practice tapes we got really tight by the end and the audience s seemed happy enough - usually working men's clubs and pubs. Once we did a rock club in maesteg and did smoke on the water. There was a lad writhing on the floor like Angus young... Aye those were the days.

They are surprisingly playable and the buget ones are still well made.. I would want to add a mute to get the authentic early-macca plop-plop sound though.

The Jack V is nice, the B2 plays better and its passive humbuckers are 'killer' but it's nice to have the 'set'.

Kind of disappointed not to see myself listed 🤣 I did once get ejected for being 'too widdly and improvisational' - they wanted someone to play root notes so I was replaced by the rhythm, guitarist. That was the best compliment I ever got! I suppose it's true I was trying to be in Hawkwind ... but it was pretty civilised, I even got a songwriting credit on the demo they recorded after I went. My first band was pub/clubs and standard covers, with no lead guitar(!) Our best musician was the drummer, he'd been a prizewinning jazz drummer (as in snare only) as a teenager. At the end of C'mon Everybody me and him would just and go round a 12-bar increasing the tempo with every bar to see who would screw up first. But no 'gits' although a few egos. Probably we were never good enough to have too high an opinion of ourselves.

How about a sunburst Performer if you want good looks? I paid £80 for it, but it was maybe 7 or 8 years old and very out of fashion! Next to it is my Hohner B2 (A.K.A Deathburger) which became a lefty and switched back, had it since the late 80s. Seem to be a lot of headless and 5 strings - got this not long ago, best of both! Back in the day, the rumour was Dave Pegg played a Hohner headless with Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull because he felt the wood body sounded nicer than a Steinberger.

Is there a list of the basses covered by the book?

I've put this in my diary - I can bring a Fender Performer (as in the 80's rarity, not the new 'perfomer' line) and maybe a Hohner Custom V.

hanks! Great to see someone else obsessed with headless bases (Hohner B2 since the 80s and a Hohner Custom 5 since October!)

Back in the 80s I was at a studio and spent an afternoon jamming with a short scale Mustang bass. I had great fun. Last week saw a Squier Jaguar SS bass and it was just as much fun, plus it's a gorgeous candy apple red so I accidentally bought it. Sounded a bit flat through a fender rumble in the shop, but i got it home and put it through my Orange crush practice amp it sounds really nice, especially the P-pickup! Tempted to add a p-bass ashtray (A J bass one is overpowering) and maybe even add the full jaguar chrome plates and an active tone circuit

Probably most people know this already, if you have a bass with a very shiny, sticky neck smoothing it down with something like 800 grit wet and dry will flat the finihh and make it feel much smoother. Don't do this to a bass under warranty or of value unless you understand what you be doing!

Not really, but I did name my Hohner B2 'Deathburger' as a play on 'Steinberger' 😀

Aren't they ALL named Lucille, so he doesn't get too attached to them?

Bass player looking to start playing with bands again after along gap! The bug has bitten again and it's pretty bad! Just realised a bass forum is probably the worst place to look..... :-)