Stub Mandrel

Oh I did say some, but my beautifully finished 'made in Japan' (genuine) Fender Performer probably came out of the Tokai factory in 1987 along with many other 'real' Fenders...

More than I paid for this Kay, which is probably even more basic... (apols for reposting this pic!) Also see https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Kay-K2-T-Vintage-Guitar/264225371338?hash=item3d850f34ca:g:58sAAOSwAEFcWWCi:rk:10:pf:0 " I have seen that these guitars sell for £250-£300. No silly offers please " Another one is listed at £57 which is probably greatly over-valued! And everyone thinks they are 60s when they were late 70s (and barely more than entry-level toy guitars).

Thanks. It seems each 'band' will have a leader who does all the coms, but I think the choice of songs will be 'democratic' rather than imposed, which is good. Funnily enough that reminds me one of my brothers (guitarist) did a 'mixed bag' charity gig last year - wasn't keen on the songs he got but he enjoyed it. I think one was Black Night and his attitude was "I just noodled around in a harmonic minor scale". I honestly hadn't considered the similarity in the situation, although its a long while since I played with anyone other than family.

Check for broken wires. Try switch cleaner... otherwise get new pots.

Crikey, they were known as crap even at the time!

Thing is if you sue someone for the lawsuit bass not being a lawsuit bass would that make it a lawsuit bass? To be fair, some of the MIJ guitars/basses from that era varied from very good to better than the originals (especially Tokai).

Something I want to avoid if at all possible... I can just about sing in tune but not much call for Paul Robeson covers...

I always wanted a TE rig. That's why I got the Laney - lots of controls and overload LEDs, a sort of poor man's Trace Elliot 🙂

My first electric K-2T - body is undisguised plywood! I had to loose the terrible 'sub-bigsby' and fit a tune-o-matic bridge. You Tube is full of videos of people raving about the pickups!

Apparently most people who sign up want to be lead guitarists... they tend to run short of bassists and vocalists.

I hope so, or I'm in for some very long drives...

Not like (some) bass players then 🙂

I'm really keen to start playing again, so I recently signed up for this: https://abbey-road-music.com/abbey-road-army-registration/ The details have just come though and it looks like enough people have signed up to form five 'bands', including a good number of returners from the previous one (which has to be a good sign!) There will be a first meeting this month to divvy us up (a bit like the Sorting Hat?) There will be seven rehearsals starting in April and a seven-hour several bands gig on 19 May. I'm pretty much the target demographic (50's , haven't played in a band for decades, vaguely competent rather than talented...) and it's a lot cheaper than buying a Lamborghini. Now I know the timetable all the questions start coming... Who will I be playing with? What if the music they want is crap or needs a Billy Sheehan/Pino Palladino? What if I suggest a song then find out I can't play it &^£^%$*^!!!!! Big worry is I know it takes me an hour to settle down my nerves when playing with new folks so at first I will come across as complete crap! I know the aim (and what I want) is just to enjoy the crack and make some music but what if they all go off note-perfect first time like the Commmitments playing Mustang Sally.... Has anyone on BC done something similar? All the backline is supplied for practice and performance; for some reason taht's making me worry even more about choosing which bass to play. I suppose I should take the one I find easist first time,but it's tempting to think 'which one will sound best' or worse 'which one will give me the most cred'. Crikey this is worse than worrying about my first band audition over 30 years ago (which was a miserable disaster - I spent weeks trying to learn all the songs on a tape, then they didn't want to play any of them).

I had a very crappy nylon string acoustic and put steels trings on it which gradually destroyed it. It rattled so much I painted a rattlesnake on the front. My mate and I got cheap Kay electrics (mine was the 'SG' copy (K-T2, I still have it), his the 'strat' and we managed to figure out 'Running Free' between us (it had just come out and he had the single). That guitar took part in many very drunken and scrappy sing-alongs (mostly helped by the Beatles Compleat) when I went to college. My first composition was called 'Mindless Violence' and it went something like '||: what we want is mindless violence:||' Much later a mate of mine leant me his precision (!) which was the start of the road to bassiness. I would guess my first bassline that wasn't a guitary thing was probably pounding along to Hawkwind.

Perhaps for Yes, Genesis and King Crimson the challenge should be 'name a track in 4/4'?

Delta Lady reminds me - Joe Cocker's take on With a Little Help from My Friends is utterly charged with emotion 🙂

I've got an Orange Crush practice amp, all five of my basses sound great through it, just plug in and play... I've got a 'stack' with a 150W Laney covered in sliders, pre-shape and para-Q. I can get them all to sound great through it, but it takes a few minutes fiddling to get a good setting for each bass.

A load of good musicians with Stagg kit would sound a lot better than a bunch of 'all the gear no idea' bozos...

Squier VM Jaguar SS My photo seems to have killed the beautiful candy apple red.

I doubt you are as crap as the previous owner...

No. Having fewer than 20 stringed instruments in the house is stupid 🙂 Seriously, I got a Squier Jaguar a few weeks back. I've played virtually every day since, sometimes for a couple of hours at a stretch. It's not my best sounding bass, but it's wonderful to play. My brother has recently got a Ukelele bass which is tiny and it's brilliant. I've ordered a neck and I'm going to make a 'rad' piezo in the bridge on, just for fun. If you really want short scale... how about this crappy 13.5" scale micro-bass I knocked up in the 1980s 🙂

House of the Rising Sun was an old standard. Hey Joe was a 62 song by Billy Roberts but the famous arrangement was by Tim Rose of the Thorns.

No prizes for guessing which Clark - they don't mean the one on the high street 🙂 RIP the Divided Alien.

Agreed that one is pretty tasteless, but white pickups can look good, and not just on Strats...