Stub Mandrel

Eh? I thought this was a forum for chatting about bass matters. If we all agreed it would be a pretty boring place... Sorry... I didn't realise that some comments may have got a bit personal.

THree songs to learn... sit down by James is the most complicated(!) plus Ring of Fire and a Dua Lipa song.

Changing the topic a bit, we've been booked to do the sort of gig @Bluewine seems to thrive on. It's a 'christmas' event for the local supporters club for Liverpool FC at Cardiff Tramshed. There are 5,000 members but the venue is 1,000 capacity. Looks like we'll only have to do an hour, but it's an amazing venue (I've seen bands like Phil Campbell and Black Star Riders there) and we get house PA and lights with pros on both, so really excited!

Ouch. My Epson head dries out a bit if unused for several months, but clears with a few cleaning routines that use tiny amounts of ink. It's only four-colour printer but the quality is excellent, I have several A4 'photos' framed up, landscapes and astrophotographs. Generally they are better than ones I have had done professionally as I have adjusted the print profiles.

Got me looking at all my stuff. Cabs: PJB - Neutrik GRBASS - Neutrik Fun Generation (Thomann) - no nameme Peavey - no name Amps Orange - no-name with metal channel. Behringer - Chen Shung (or something like it) 4-pole (PA amp, for bi-amping) I've been using mostly Stagg cables and one Pronomic, with no issues whatsoever for about four years.

The Epson EcoTank printers are like that from the beginning, so no stupid nag screens or chipped cartridges.

They are ace, I've had one for ten years and only filled the tanks twice. Also a HP laserjet that is decades old and uses a refill every two years...

I like a set list, but I don't mind if we alter it to suit the audience.

The club I'm involved with insists on a break as it precipitates a rush to the bar, but it is a venue with the bar in a separate room to the music (although people can go in and out during performances).

My double knobage: Flea Jazz: Hohner Jack Custom V: Sire P10: Do I win? 😁

Adapt one of these?

I regularly drive past a scrap steel smelting plant, the rail yard adjacent usually has three or four different 08s in an array of different contractor colour schemes.

He didn't appear to have fluidity issues sat down with Beato. Bear in mind that he performs that stuff live too.

This is the way to go...

His music is also very melodic, rather than the rhythmic rattle of most slapsters.

Both my bands NORMALLY get asked to do 2x45 minutes (plus an encore or two). Usually we end up playing closer to 50 then 50 plus encores, simply because we'd rather play than stand around*. A few venues ask for a bit more, e.g. one venue does 5:45 - 8 on a Sunday. Some want less or have a strict curfew. We've just been booked for a private club Christmas party (a football supporter's club with 5,000 members!) in a 1,000 capacity venue, but we have only been asked to do an hour. We recently did a three-hour gig, 8 to 11, we did three roughly 40-45 minute sets, then ended up doing two encores, one of which had to be a song we'd decided not to do (and it went the best we've played it, probably because we were well into the groove by then). We've been asked back, and agreed because we had a real blast. I negotiated an 8:15 start, so we can leave at a slightly more civilised time. It's a long drive, but as we now know it's a quick setup as the low ceiling limits what gear we can use, that 15 minutes means leaving 30-45 minutes later. *One guitarist said "I get paid to have equipment, travel, set up and pack down. I play for free, because I enjoy it."

I'm sorry, there's no way I would set up on grass with the slightest chance of rain coming.

Should say this is my other band, so I'll be playing it first 🙂 Edit: More good news, the venue hire (we aren't paying for it) a full pro PA and lights with operators 🙂 We need to make sure we have a good photographer!

Been sulking as the guitarist from our blues band is also in an indie band that are taking off. He's just cancelled one of our local gigs so they can play Capital FM's big switch on. Plus they are supporting Cardinal Black at the Tramshed in February, Cardiff's most awesome venue. So imagine my joy to find out we've been booked to play the Cardiff Liverpool Supporters Club Christmas Party at the Tramshed this December (they have five thousand members, although they won't all turn up). Going to be riotous...

I put 4m, but I think mine are actually mostly 5m. But I have lots and some are too short and used only for practice. Currently, my main practise rig has a 6m on it... a Cheinmortbb won at the SW Bass Bash IIRC...

My brother asked me to track down a faint, but annoying harmonic buzz on one open string of a guitar. It turned out that one of the nut slots was cut so it was fractionally higher just back from the mouth of the slot, perhaps one or two thousandths of an inch. A few movements of a fine blade sorted it, but it was almost impossible to detect. In this case, suspect anything that may not be 100% snug, try tapping gently with a screwdriver.

While I love mine, I do have one issue - the side dots are hard to see at the best of times and virtually invisible under some stage lighting. I am contemplating sticking on temporary dots.

There are differences that even I can hear - but the BBOT was consistently brighter to my ear, with more harmonic content. The others sounded like the tone had been rolled back by varying amounts.

Can't remember what we charge, but the blues band I'm in sell cds and t-shirts. We only do covers although we are quite capable of writing our own material.