Stub Mandrel

Me too And with Dio. Never with Ozzy

You shouldn't have boil washed it.

Err...

Is this the bass equivalent of the Willy Wonka Experience?

You aren't taking the di signal from the headphone socket by any chance?

And a Van Halen album too.

Muse, not Deaf Leotard.

We'll have to disagree on that!

That's been true since 1969, to be fair. His singing seems to bypass his brain's mumble centre.

I used to keep my GP11 1110 combo at a rehearsal space. Gigged it twice. Now it's in the workshop, I would like to gig it for fun but... maybe take it to the Earl Haig later this month as I can roll it onto the stage.

My brother is a killer guitarist. He plays bass like a lead guitar... he can do the notes but not groove or mute well, for example. My lead playing is awful yet my brother thinks I play fingerstyle better than him (I think he's being kind).

Reading in England is pronounced like that too.

Marketing ploy, that's all. You're better off with Maga Trumpbuckers.

Few others coming up- The Rogues this week. Also lined up Hawkwind, Small Fakers and Alice Cooper. Oh and (whispers) Simply Red.

I'm seeing him in Cardiff in the summer.

Bendricks Rock at the green rooms tonight. First rehearsal after playing seven gigs in quick succession, then nothing dince early November Two new tunes. We were surprised how well Hysteria went (well we got through it a few times and all ended together) but a few rough edges to knock off. New Sensstion, INXS song, was pretty much on point. We also revived Gasoline (Audioslave). Practiced some other stuff, some good, some had become a bit ragged, and felt What is and What Should Never Be went really well and shows our potential. We finished by creating a medley of the Batman theme and Sex Bomb.

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Made In Mexico I bet 🤣🤣🤣

I need to shut about about gigs I've been to, but last night the singist of my band Bendricks Rock asked if I was going to the Park to see the Flares. We were heading to the club in Penarth but changed plans (ironically a 25 minute drive to the pub a minute's walk from my house). But my point? This was the audience, ot about a quarter of it...

LMFTFY

I'm greatly tempted by the CV bass vi.

Well last night we had Nearly Steely play at the club and it was totally rammed. It was a decent attendance 45 minutes befor the start, normally it starts filling with 5-10 minutes to go. We expected to lose people to the Six Nations but that didn't happen. Indeed by half time the lounge where the match was on was virtually empty. I wonder why... Our usual band night is Saturday so this was a big bonus for the club, things are so tight these days but we are doing our best - seven live band nights in February, one with fourboriginals bands) plus four open mics and a jam night. It's interesting and a bit demoralising to be on both sides of the local live music challenge. And frustrating to know things the club could do better...

My first bash, and the last one before Covid.

I thought I had none in January, but had missed one, then two more pop up at short notice, one quiet (well it was 8pm on a Thursday...), two decent but not as busy as normal. Always hit and miss this time of year, although I didn't gig last Saturday, numbers at two local gigs were good. We've got a very good local Steely Dan tribute at the club tonight - fingers crossed, it is free admission. Tomorrow's band cancelled due to illness, but we got a stnad in (miffied I didn't act quick enough to get it!) I've got 14 or 15 gigs booked in over the rest of 2025, a bit clumped. Not particularly impressive given I played seven in six weeks from the start of november. Would like about 2 a month in an ideal world.