Frank Blank

Come With Me - Dennis Bovell & Dennis Curtis.

Bloody hell, Soul Coughing. The only band (IMHO) who released three albums without a duff track amongst them. I had no idea they'd reformed, good job I suppose as it saved me a flight to the US. I am praying they'll put out another album 🙏

And yet another excuse for...

You must have been in the bog... when he talked about Doctor and the Medics.

Despite having played a (borrowed) Stingray a few times, in a thrash metal band years ago, I know nothing about these basses. All I remember (I may have been a little refreshed at the time) was the biting tone which fitted perfectly with my style of playing in such a band. For a few years now I've played in an acoustic duo and I have two beautiful short scale basses built by our very own @Jabba_the_gut that are perfect for this endeavour. However, I have, for years now, had a hankering for a solid bodied electric bass. I've been through a few but, for some reason, I've mostly avoided the bigger names. My first 'serious' bass, bought thirty five years ago at The Bass Centre, was a black Jaydee Supernatural and the last was a Fender JMJ Mustang, but, apart from the borrowed Stingray, I have never really had the (sober) Stingray experience. So... I need some help from all the Stingray experts. If you were going to buy a Stingray, what would you go for? New? Used? Are there particular years to look out for? I think I've read about there being a pre and post period of some sort? Just to give you a starting point, I quite fancy the look of this 2022 Ernie Ball Music Man Stingray Special 4 currently on sale at Bass Bros, but that's purely on looks, if you had 2K (or 4K for that matter) to spend on a Stingray what would you go for and why?

Cheers Sir!

Sorry to awaken this old thread. I've been looking at Lindo basses lately but I hadn't seen a thin body version. Got a link Reg?

This is an excellent idea, he could certainly run such a thing at a Bass Bash.

It's a big cask but I think I'm up to it, I'm a Brut. Judging by the sommelier this thread has gone right off.

I too was baffled by compression. I was also baffled by the singer/guitarist in my duo (an experienced FOH/sound tech) missing compression in our sound, applying that compression and being satisfied when I couldn't hear the difference. "If you can hear a difference in tone then it's too much compression," she would say, I couldn't get my head around that. Thankfully I am acquainted with the excellent @Osiris, who spent a day demonstrating and educating me in the subtleties of compression, that lead to me understanding the subject a lot more and, eventually, to acquiring an optical compressor, much more suited to the type of music we play. Now I can't do without it, I notice when it isn't on and yet I'd still struggle, really struggle, to explain exactly what it's doing. I use a very expensive preamp and the Effectrode PC-2A Compressor, given the choice between the two I'd keep the compressor, the preamp is tech, that compressor has some kind of juju I can't do without.

This thread has become an absolute Chablis... Trying to think of another pun but I've drawn a blanc. Thnkyvrymch.

I am an outlier when it comes to railway enthusiasts as in I am ambivalent about steam, always have been since I became a railway enthusiast aged about nine. I'd be more interested in a Class 08 shunter than any of the great steam locomotives, horses for courses innit.

No competition, Deltic all the way.

☝☝☝ this.

Come on everyone, lets list our favourite shed felters. I'll start... Danny 'The Stuffer' Hobson.

Shed felters were they?

Oooohhh, collar felting now, quite the definitive felting compendium this thread.

A little out of column a), a little out of column b). Type D. ...and my arśe is a kipper.

First class advice. Textbook. @pete.young is clearly a force to be reckoned with when it comes to shed felting 👍

That was the case until the 2021 financing report that recommended, and I quote, Eels. Since then it’s been just the one form D27/3b - Application to Felch a Shed in an Uncontrolled Area. My dog knew that one and I don’t have a dog.