Stub Mandrel

Short Facebook video from yesterday: Bendricks march 2025.mp4

I've got three very, very nice Fender basses. Last week split a gig between Sire P10 and Fender AVII. Today I just gigged the Sire.

"£10 cheaper than Amazon" means a lot to all of us! 😁

Was hoping for a good gig today, my and the singer's home town and a fair few people had said they were coming. A 5:15 sunday gig. We used the venue pa but the desk does auto setup with white noise so we had a good sound (4 vocals plus drums) restof us backline only. Had a decent soundcheck. Hadn't played a gig since start of December, just two rehearsals with just four of us. Place was rammed, which was great considering we've only played Barry once before. We made a handful of cock ups but recovered well. Went down a storm, the bucket added over 50% to our fee. Plenty of dancing(!) Lots of compliments especially for the sound and our singer's voice, also loads of great feedback on our setlist. Playing songs we love seems to work. Screenshot from a facebook live...

Glad it was good. The round trip from south wales didn't appeal last night...

Because that isnt how I hear it, I suppose. Once you learn something itxs harder to unlearn.

I wimped out.

It is an odd one. I have a similar issue with Apocalypse in 9/8. I can only do it by counting the accents as: one two three FOUR one two THREE one TWO But technically it's: one two THREE one TWO one two three FOUR So my mental 'bar line' is in the wrong place.

I once shared a house with two, unrelated, people with the asme first and middle names and the initials APB. I read a book at the time, and one character was a baby called 'All Points Bulletin' or APB for short.

Or 'The Party Seven'

Congratulations... nice stage!

Or look at this... https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/509160-reduced-to-£299tc-electronics-bg250-210-combo-and-helicon-pedal/

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Exactly, some people will debate that for days, but who wants to talk about adjustin a parametric mid control that has a vastly greater impact...?

Makes me wonder if we should have more discussion of 'tone' on here. I don't see much useful discussion of how to get particular types of sound, beyond comments like 'use flats' or 'use pedal x'. It would be interesting to see what settings people are using for their JJ sound.

I did exactly that in the 1980s... I saw the remains of it a while ago, I'll see if I can find it.

Hold on, Trump hasn't appointed the new Pope yet!

The AVII series are, spec wise, off-the-shelf custom shop models. You just lose the 'bespoke' elements or relicing. But it shows top grade nitro lacquer, clay dots, period correct reverse tuners with huge backplates, slab fingerboards and other details can be delivered for about half the CS cost.

Decades ago I added thrust washers to my Hohner B2 🙂 Still get a bit of 'stiction'. Thrust bearings would be ideal.

At least you didn't say the duke of york... 🤣

Some video from yesterday's gig... you can see I was having a lot of fun from about 1/3 of the way through! AQP05IXz-P74jtaQNnMx7cmbBMTK8Je-gpmm6FLmot0YeGxQhH9b9ChaicpHN82BWZfoy8w8tOWJ9LEqck62juxmlcuJfDDjdFLuu_nLJJm_SKkyOA.mp4

Apparently there's a US band called the Junkyard Doges...

2x10 and 1x15 are both much bigger cone areas than 2x8. Expect a lot more oomph from the combo.

Yes... mind you we had about 60 people in a room that takes 250... even a hundred in it feels empty as there's a big dance floor in front of the tables. At least with the fog I could pretend it was rammed.

We agonised for ages and eventually went for a local landmark, Bendricks Rock. Not long after we got a presence, my brother tells me his next door neighbour (the 20-ish son) has called his new band... Bendricks. They are originals, we are covers and the names are different. But we come up first on google