Stub Mandrel

Funnily enough I've bought another lot with my business details on... just as a quirky promo.

Mazak and Zamak are more popularly kniwn as 'monkey metal' in engineering circles. That should tell you everything you need to know.

Looking back over this thread, the Cobra 90 is definitely the clear winner. The guy who introduced me to bass had one back in the 80s. He hated it.

Today's rehearsal was much better. We have no trouble with Uprising n hut the better we get at Hysteria the more we discover, the challenge for all of us is keepingtogether and in the pocket. The drummer has been obsessed with a challenge to just play constant 16th notes for three minutes "if you can do that you've got it". In the end I just did it... long enough that he now appreciates stamina is not the issue... but then we had a bit of a lightbulb moment. I started off just playing the root notes. Lo and behold everyone else managed to lock together properly and after the first chorus I went to the proper bassline and we more or less nailed it to the end. My main challenge is setting the tempo right and then staying locked in with the drummer. Other stuff was less exciting. Played a few on a fiver which had me improvising some nice bits. We finished on uprising again, I played it low on the five string instead of using the octaver. I thought a tendon in my palm was going to snap... at the end my left hand was warped into a claw!

Might have been thinking if my brother's Westone Spectrum. Mist have bbot bridges but some have a similar one:

We had a rehearsal last monday. Still unused to the clock change I was thinking of cooking my tea when I got rung up. It was about two hours later thsn I thought. Got there 40 minutes late... recovered some goodwill by handing out band plectrums. We were all a bit raggedy, the more we try Hysteria the worse we thknk we are at it, but we're doing Uprising too and that's easy. Hopefully better tomorrow.

A Google reverse image search came up with a few ideas. This is a much better looking one off Amazon, but actually sold by Northwest Guitars for about £22. https://www.amazon.co.uk/String-Electric-Precision-Guitar-Bridge/dp/B00BR0O5PS

Yes some of those Amazon ones look very cheaply made (that one looked better on my phone, now it's huge on my PC...) I'm sure I've seen your 'original' bridge somewhere before in the mists of time...

I bought personalised plectrums for my band as promo items. I'm slowly giving them away. As I don't play with them, do they count?

Other options: https://www.musicstore.com/en_GB/GBP/Ibanez-2BB4ACA026-Bass-Bridge-Set-B305-Cosmo-Black/art-GIT0036582-000 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bridge-Installation-4-string-Durable-Performance/dp/B0CRJZX4D4

Bass player Pete Hurley was in Lone Star 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Just turned up at my local club for the Red Hot Pokers. They've backed lots of famous blues players and toured as van Morrison's band. That's Marco Palladino on drums (Pino's brother). Not bad for a local club, and it's packed.

It used to be that the system was somewhat loaded in favour of establishing a small company instead of being self-employed. The ideabis to encourage entrepreneurs and grow the economy. Doing this and being VAT registered has enabled me to subcontract out work I would no otherwise have taken on. The income benefit of having a personal company instead of being self-employed was eroded so much under a succession of tory governments (reductions in dividend allowances and increase in dividend tax rates) the benefit is now so small that it is questionable if it's worth the effort. The way covid support was set up excluded single person companies and forced us into covid loans we are still paying off. Quite extraordinary for the 'party of smsll business'.

Only about 11 lined up between now and September and one venue has gone worryingly quiet. Most are at venues I like playing.

There's a product called evaporust that would do a wicked job on that bridge.

In the 80s all Boss bass pedals were brown.

It is cool! The dark one actually IS daphne blue!

Most hotel bookings allow you to cancel without penalty this far out.

I think it's compression rather than limiting, it's relatively unobtrusive, not harsh at all. Keep up the Trace Elliot tradition of 'they sound best when the gain light flashes' 🙂

There was a chap who in three years went from a nervous acoustic covers to writing songs with a band.

It kind of depends. The 'Blues Dragon' nughts lean towards a true jam... the Earl Haig 'open mic/jam session' leans towards the latter. Most of the local open mics are dominated by acoustic singer/ guitarist types but often get a backing if people are available. They can all be a lot of fun, this one was memorable:

Fascinating! I've just run around with my UV torch.. one weird thing, some 'white' walls look terrible under uv! The basses all look matt under uv! Mid-80s Maya with cracked off poly. Mid 80's sunburst Fender Performer turned daphne blue! 1950s mandolin showing clear wear Nitro finished snd slightly reliced kit I made during covid shows wear not visible to naked eye (only the bright bit is visible) 1960s Kay/Teisco doesn’t show many secrets!

There's the mighty Deard Zeppelin featuring Tortelvis.

If it's a private limited company the Directors own the shares, and they are not publicly traded.