Stub Mandrel

On 'people who do Jaco better than Jaco', I'm reminded of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix. Much as I loved SRV's music, one was the innovator, the other was the imitator. It's the creation of a new paradigm in music which is the real achievement. Einstein conceptualised relativity, but others too it further - does that diminish Einstein's achievement? As for Jaco's mental illness and drug abuse issues; they are desperately sad but no doubt as intrinsic to his character and creativity as Van Gogh's, for example, and cannot be bignored to understand him in the round.

I will be 20 miles from Alton the weekend after next...

No one ever said 'gosh I want to smell more like a Christmas cake' but Old Spice still sells...

I have posted on the other thread as I had one of these from new, and my brother still has it. Definitely Cort Korea. In the late 80s Hohner had a reputation for excellent instruments are bargain prices, way above a lot of the crap around at the time. The strings don't originally go through the body.

About 1986 or 1987, delightful to play - my first bass guitar was one and my brother still has it. Varnish a bit thick, not the most amazing sound, but now I know a lot more about basses I'd say it's very well made.

On the sleeve notes of Space Ritual (1973) the band's crew are described as 'Heavy Metal Kids, no doubt a nod to Burroughs.

Thomas Tallis, Bore no malice. Save an organist called Ken. Who played the organ rather badly, Now and then.

Perhaps he steels magnolias.

If this is like many forums, there will be lots of 'spam' and 'bot' sign ups that get deleted but probably still increment counters.

Hohner Jazz copy. My brother now has it (note faded scratch plate and darkened wood after ~35 years). He loaned it to a learner who put the strange paper strips on the neck and hasn't taken them off yet...

Sounds like the original sample may be an old Moog bass pad to me.

Tim Blake 🙂

They are quite puny, I am very fussy about pillow height, so I have three decent ones and use two Morrisons ones as height adjusters 🤣

None more '80s.

To bring some perspective, Smoke on the Water was recorded 49 years ago. 49 years back from Smoke on the Water in 1923 the world was recovering from the Great War and Spanish Flu.

It's the Tiny Terror Bass that has a valve input stage.

That's the operating theatre, where's your studio? 🙂

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Morrison's super-cheap pillows might be a good source for small quantities.

Sounds very synthy to me!

The only music that is truly no good, is any music no-one enjoys*. *i.e. Edith Piaf and yodelling.

I'll raise you Dio 🙂

More seriously, classifying music into genres is like classifying animals into species. It has no intrinsic value or meaning, it's just a handle that helps human beings conceptualise how different music/animals are related. For animals cladistics (bases of common ancestors) is far more objective and insightful, similarly a Pete Frame Family Tree tells you a lot more than grouping bands by genre. It's an analogy that will stand a fair degree of stretching, even if it isn't perfect.