Stub Mandrel

Me. Don't know how I keep it up, especially as see loads of live gigs too. I'm currently playing with ideas of founding a third band but the right vocalist will be hard to find.

There's nowt wrong with one-finger-per-fret.

I watched the Lemonheads perform Mrs Robinson on TOTP yesterday. The singer did the last verse in the style of This Charming Man.

He liked the music do much he bought the burger.

Band I saw tonight yhd keyboard player told how he had seen U2 supporting Wild Willy Barrett and John Otway, playing to about five people. So jealous of him seeing Otwsy and Barrett.

The only opinion that counts is mine, so keep yours to yourself. 😇

One of the greats. I have the album, the live album and the live dvd. Listen carefully to the live version, you should be able to hear me in the crowd 🙂

Was the kettle lead earthed. May have been an earth loop broken by using a kettle lead with no earth, or vice versa providing a missing earth.

Thanks Tim, but I'm perfectly capable of patronising myself without extetnal assistance, as I'm sure you are aware.

Get a man to tell you how it should be done.

Twelfth Night; the greatest prog band that never made it big. Live at the Target: Definitive Edition. https://twelfthnight.info/?cds=live-at-the-target-the-definitive-edition-2

Well anyone who calls their product 'bugera veyron' doesn’t lose sleep over ripping things off.

Booker T and the MGs?

The body outline. Either 'traditional' Fender shspe, rehardless of size. Pups... too much variation to be meaningful.

It's a problem when the listener's ear is better than the intonation on your bass. They are unlikely to diagnose the issue, they just won't think you sound as good as they would if you were playing in tune.

Body shape + headstock shape

Last night saw our own @RaymondoaRaymondoand Cisco support the Achievers. Brilliant night a good time was had by all.

Isaac Newton would have loved to see a modern light show with dichroic afilters and narrowband LEDs. You csn see a proof of his work on the composition of light right there!

Set up is a big variable. I wonder how many 'weak' pickups were set too low, or badly balanced odd sounding basses had pickups too high?

PC&TBS are awesome. I've seen them do their own set three times. Unfortunately the Merthyr gig sold out in two days!

Just a thought, but fingerstyle players seem to wander further from the bridge than pick players. Or is it my imagination?

Works here in W11

I found a well mixed CD of my brother's old AC/DC tribute playing life in 2007. It's rather good, I'd rather hear this than Live at River Plate... shame I never saw them!

'Precision' is not a specific model, it's no more than a sub-brand used by Fender. Unlike Jaguar and Mustang, for example, it uses it solely for basses. As something of a failed taxonomist, the consistent features of a Precision are few and far between: Bass guitar, made or licenced by Fender under the labels Fender or Squier. Bears the word 'Precision' in its name. Has a non-offset body shape. Standard layout with a traditional Fender-shaped headstock, four tuners on the one side (a fifth on the bottom is optional) and a single bridge unit. Just about everything else varies, sometimes almost everything else is different from the original ('51) or classic style.