Stub Mandrel

Just make Stew feel really bad, today Paul the guitarist said my playing on Weather With You made the song 😎

I used to work with Paul, some 35 years ago...

Wow its only a 32" scale, she must be tidgy!

Oops. I was thinking of Moby Richard!

Played, too often, but it's far from crap. Relatable lyrics, tongue in cheek, singable, memorable, well arranged and musically more sophisticated than most pop songs. https://www.musicradar.com/guitartechniques/slades-merry-xmas-everybody-appraised-246673 It may not be Bach's Toccata and Fuge, but it isn't crap.

OK, I've strictly just finished learning this but... Merry Christmas Everybody On the grounds that (a) it isn't shite like most 'Xmas Songs' (b) The hardest part is the bass, meaning no one can complain it's too difficult and (c) I may be able to avoid having to play drivel or learn Dee Murray's bassline to Step Into Christmas (which is wasted on that song). But seriously, what a great bassline, Jim Lea = underrated genius.

Ah... but it also has feet, so you can stand it on its short side. The handle means that the elf won't stand on top that way up, but I could always put it on a shelf 🙂.

There was also the situation in the next band I joined. All the songs already had basslines written, which I had to learn. A situation faced by most bassists joining an established band. I had freedom to add more and to write basslines for new songsas we went along.

The band wanted to play music in a particular style, I could easily have made up lines that fitted what they wanted, but I didn't want to be Dee Dee.

9 1/2" seems about right...

Grief. You need to see it in the context of a Phil Lynott documentary. Phil unashamedly played up to his reputation as a womaniser, albeit usually with his tongue in his cheek (if not someone else's) viz. "Hey you good lookin' female. Come here!" Clayton was no doubt trying to humorously reflect on this, but his choice of words does come across as "I'm going to finish this metaphor, no matter how deep a hole it needs..."

The first band I was in, the guitarist realised this and welded up a leg for his amp, as well as for two small PA speakers we used as monitors.

Interested to know more! The linear array attaches to the top of the woofers by built in sockets., Similarly on the other PA you can stick a rod in the top of the bass bin and balance the other speaker on top, if space is limited.

Dang, I've always resited late 50s P-basses because of the anodised scratchplate, but I think I've seen the light.

Sounds like hymns to me...

I had one that was like two picks spaced part by about 1/8", it did give 12-string like attack, but not the shimmer afterwards. Not something I used much.

The loudspeaker engineering community has known this since the late 1940s. Neither Leo Fender nor Jim Marshall were loudspeaker engineers, so the blame for poor electric instrument speaker designs that persist to this day can be attributed to them. The one band I'm in has just invested in active PA speakers, it's a bass bin each side with a vertical array of eight tiny 3" speakers on top. Sounds great. The other band has an active bass bin each side and an active FRFR speaker on a pole above - similar principle.

I think the word you are looking for may be 'Triple' 🙂

It's more interesting than his basslines 😉

Yes! I've been able to bodge it in the past, but I finally aced Jethro Tull's Bourree 🙂 Only reservation, if the chords are all diads not triads.

Shame they start with 3 'reasons', none of which is relevant.

But I'd use filament made with real tonewood:

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