Stub Mandrel

Thought I'd posted this...

The burgundy is not something I would have thought of, but it looks excellent.

Seems odd that the 'premium' Boss offering doesn't fold like the Lekato. OK it's chunkier, probably because it has more tricks in it or a bigger battery, but surely it wouldn't be hard to do?

I keep my Lekato's in the robust cardboard box they came in (fits snugly in one of my cases). On the layer of foam that fits on top of the insert I've written 'Charged' and 'Flat' on opposite sides to avoid relying on memory.

My brother's band took the "leave them wanting more" approach on the grounds it makes them look good and helps secure more bookings.

Not for me... but I do gave a gig less than a minute's walk away in the summer.

I had a fan approach me with our live cd "do you think Alex will sign this?" 😢

Guinness at the gig. Early finish. Dropped my stuff in my partner's house. Went to the Ex Servicemen's club to met her and friends. VoG Bass bitter. Spoons. Strongbow, Jack Daniels. More Jack. Round of fireball shots. The 'Fag'. Jack. Two rounds of baby guinness. Not sure anything happened on Sunday...

And the valleys!

Modern RnB is a marketing category for all black music other than hip hop. Rather like lumping all 'white' music other than country as pop.

After some thought... N.I.B.

The guys are buzzing this morning. I've got complacent about just how lucky I am to play with Alex.

Not a gig, but we had a rehearsal last night... our second gig is coming up on Saturday and our lead guitarist can't make it, in fact he apologetically resigned as he can't commit to gigs far enough ahead. I asked Alex from my other band to dep which was met with a bit of scepticism as he's only 22. The rehearsal went really well, the clincher was John Mayer's Who Did You Think I Was. Alex hadn't heard it before, listened to it once and nailed it 😲 Tony our drummer literally had his jaw dropped when we finished it. Fingers crossed we can repeat the feat on the weekend as it's three 45 minute sets so we'll have to include all the hard songs...

And this!

It's said Lemmy felt this was his best bassline. Not very Motorhead...

Hmm. Rate this thread: On overrated bass players: 5/10 (average). On averages: 3/10 (below average, median and mode). On pizza: 9/10 ...

Pizza is just an open topped italian pie. No ingredient is essential except the base.

I am gutted to find myself omitted from your list.

He Is Come! We are touched by his noodly appendages!

All my Fenders and Squiers must have Fender straps (they don't do squier ones 🤨). This one on my AVII 1960 P has a period correct Fender logo 😁 so counts as coordinated! Blue Red

Like @skidder652003 last night it was the huge pub, big audience but felt half empty. Bar manager (a drummer) apologised for it being quiet due to the weather but it was still more people than most places we play. Despite being a 'rock' demographic not much atmosphere to feed off although some folks danced or filmed us. But odd night all round. Drummer forgot his cymbals and had 80 minute round trip to fetch them. But 7:30 start(!) We made 7:40, and were done two hours later! Even with our long pack up and long drive I got back to the local for 11:20 and somehow ended up mixing Jack Daniels and baby Guinness until 2am... We all felt we weren't at our best, but t afterwards and half time got people saying it was good. And we got a booking at the break from the landlady of another pub and another landlord took a card. So we were probably ok but really didn't feel it! That said, we had a couple of off piste improvisations that were fun, and I doubled a bit of Alex's solo on sharp dressed man - he started laughing and then I got cocky and fumbled... I did do some bvs, hopefully enough that people weren't wondering why on earth I had a microphone.

Oh ... and a Frijid Pink style House ofvthe Rusing Sun.

I'd been playing Feeling Good for two years before I found out we were doing the Muse version...

The Lekato is embarrassingly good. My brother reckons it makes his signal a bit 'hotter'.

I am very happy with my Orange Terror. Easy to get a good sound, but not versatile- suits if you like the Orange sound.