Stub Mandrel

Sounds excellent. I hope my return to the fray goes as well! At least I have the advantage of rehearsals 🙂

Indeed! It's easy for THEM, the whole thing is driven by Dee Murray's bassline, which I can't claim to be duplicating! There is a Nickelback version which as far as I can see removes virtually any need to move your left-hand...

The best thing about this thread is the ingenuity in the silly names 🙂

I've had two rehearsals now, it's evident everyone has spent a good deal of time learning their parts. A few times I've made (to me) major errors like playing the chorus and verse riffs the wrong way round or missing out a big fill because I lost track of where we were. None of them has noticed, which is a bit depressing as it means they haven't noticed all the bits a I got right. Plus they all love Saturday Night's Allright for Fighting because it's so simple... 😲

I like! This is where Seasiock Steve will head if he ever needs and upgrade. 🙂 The manifesto: KRAPPY GUITARS--Krapmeister Kevin Siebold relays the philosophy that guides our efforts: Our instruments are built for frugal people who aren't very concerned with regard to quality, construction, materials, or safety. The instruments are crafted from whatever we find suitable. Pedigree of wood is not a priority for us. We might get it from a local hardware store, or use some old shipping crates, or skids. Who knows??!! If you are intrigued enough to purchase, we will provide you with a complete history for your instrument. The history might be akin to this: Wood: leftover 2x4 from a construction site. Strings: used about 3 years ago on an old guitar. Pickups: some buncha crap we snagged from some guy. Electronics: whatever we can scrounge up! Our warranty: There is no warranty, expressed or implied. We fully acknowledge our product is crap, and your purchase signifies that you have entered into an agreement to buy a product that is lacking in quality, contains poor materials, and is worthy of much abuse and destruction. We will in no way provide any customer service, so don't even waste your time!!!

This is the cure - just mod your bass like this gem off eBay...

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After last tuesday? ... speaker leads for supplied the guitar head/cabs...

Mitch and Noel 🙂

Have to be careful as it isn't confirmed yet... but I've got tickets to see a gig with my brothers later in the year. Last night the guitar tech saw my brother's band play and asked them if they would play the support 🙂

Lots of the 'bargains' on eBay are QC rejects. Nothing gets thrown out in China, just passed down the line until someone can make a profit out of it. This explains why you can often apparently get top gear at huge savings, in many cases the fails are cosmetic but I'd worry about that crack.

Discovering his affair was a bit like when you realised what your parents must have done to become your parents...

Do not underestimate Dave Pegg and Gerry Conway. Currently both in Fairport Convention, listen to Jethro Tull's Broadsword and the Beast for a tour-de-force that proves less can be more in the rhythm section. Peggy has done some pretty amazing stuff with Dave Mattacks as well.

Indeed, but while I see how the stave allows you to build chords, for example, because each adjacent pair of lines or spaces is a third apart my brain insists this is merely a convention that creates a meaningless inconsistency where you can't tell what type of chord it actually is. Actually, to me, the fact that the stave is inherently diatonic and suited to penny whistles and perhaps even pianos, it seems illogical to force it on a totally chromatic instrument like a bass.

I understand that, and I'm sure that's one reason why all the mnemonics in the world make no differnence. Perhaps its that I find tab more logical. I can't relate to the fact the difference between two lines on a stave might be one or two semitones; it makes some sense for a piano, but none for anything else - to me at least!

Which I have no difficulty finding my way around, athough I prefer to think in terms of intervals than specific notes. Ask me to play a common scale in a common key and I might think for a second first but I won't struggle. I'm B***d if I can learn those 9 positions on the treble clef though. Rhythm is not so hard for me, which is why I think I have a built in block stopping me learning the notes.

Anyone with a leopoard-skin double bass who claims that is probably telling the truth...

But then I can only play John Major Scales.

Brilliant name! I recently thought up 'The Mauve' and 'Green Dayglo'.

In my defense I say my ear is good - I reckon there errors in a lot of, if not most, tabs but they certainly speed things up and make great mnemonics when learning. I'd also say just because people don't read notation it doesn't mean they can't understand musical theory at least to a level appropriate to what they play. There's a lick I'm struggling with and I know it's because its in a harmonic minor scale and my brain just changes it unless I really concentrate - so at least I know why I'm getting it wrong 😜