Stub Mandrel

Found some fun things. Wild World, until I realised the tab was the guitar line not the rather pedestrian bass. Cars. Then the original Robert Wyatt shipbuilding 😻

This one does an excellent job of 'Cars', despite its light construction. <edit> 30" does that count as short or medium?

That's proper lush, that is.

Accurate tab for The Riverhead by Fairport Convention 🙂

f it's just for appearance, Stagg sell braided cables that are actually reasonable quality for not many £££. I have a couple for when I want a vintage vibe.

I need to sell a bass to raise funds and make room for a new couch.

This is an excellent reason to have multiple basses, some with flats and some with rounds.

I just use it as an open invitation to edit it and post more guff about flatwounds, lemon oil, heft and Pepe's legendary emissions.

It does make me wonder how many people know that 'ms' is short for 'mistress'.

Saw this ad on Facebook. See near the end.

Utterly unapologetic British Heavy Metal, delivered immaculately. Having seen Saxon a few weeks ago, their stage show is tremendous, their performance excellent, and they are genuinely even better than they were when I was a teenager clutching my copy of "Wheels of Steel".

Sorry Lozz, don't agree! For example, there's a very good tribute called "Lady Bowie".

My view is that if he's got a problem with women, we'll... he's got a problem. It does hint at 'incel' in the way it's put, but the whole ad seems to be defining what he wants by knocking what he doesn't like. That attitude would make me move one PDQ anyway. I can understand if some people feel uncomfortable in a mixed gender band - it can become like a family, and that is tricky for some people to handle. But in that case I'd expect them to express it better. That said, if we can have bands like the phenomenal Girlschool, then we shouldn't get upset about all male bands (any Boyzone fans?) But personally, I can't see the fuss. I want to be in bands with decent people who are competent musicians and want to pay the sort of music I enjoy. I don't give a fig about their gender etc. I have been in a band that had male/female vocalists and that gave us a very specific sound ( think Beautiful South) that would have been hard to achieve with MM of FF vocalists.

Peer pressure. 🙃

I think the stand out is that it has a Pre-Shape button. 🙂

But what does it sound like?

1200 Watts out, 200 Watts in. Not a constant RMS rating then. That's a change from TE tradition.

Ovation?

What if it's the Cuckoo Club in Piccadilly? Room hire? That will be 10K my friend.

The site was down briefly last night as well. Presumably connected.

Dave (Pegg)

What about "heft, how is it calculated" and "I put lemon oil on fretboard, how long before my bass self destructs?"