Stub Mandrel

It lives!

I have Kay basses and a Kay guitar. Curiously they are all cheap construction but sound great!

Depping and jamming are excellent ways to improve confidence and ability. Deps force you to learn new stuff. I'm sure this insanely busy summer has made me 'level up'.

Saturday: Fortunate Sons (not a tribute) at Barry Football club. Someone asked me 'where are you from?' I said over there... I was born a stone's throw from the far end of the stadium. First half I was a bit rough... still recovering from a brief visual migraine, no headache but leaves me washed out. By the second set I felt better. Stuck in a few little fills of my own, some of which madevthd guitatist crack up. Keyboardist is a lapsed bass player (😯) which meansvhe doesn't compete with mycfound so the mix was excellent. Monitor with my own mini mixer worked well. Good numbers, lots of dancing, lots of handshakes afterwards. Sunday: My first Bluesfire gig for months and the setlist had evolved a bit. New songs but not complex, three or four we hadn't played begore, but I had gone through earlier. A few key changes but only one that I didn't get tipped off about! I know blues isn't everyone's cup of tea but we have very wide idea of what goes and on many songs there's space for improvisation. I found being away from the band playing other stuff gave me some interesting/unusual ideas. We felt the break got us out of a rut and we were paying more attention to each other rather than playing from habit/memory. Had chances to get up the dusty end too. An encore was demanded so we did a randomly arranged Superstition about 30% faster than normal. At one point I was slapping the riff from Play that Funk Music... strangely it all came over as pretty tight. Audience was a bit thin due to torrential rain, but all three of us were on fire and we played a good two hours. Felt shattered afterwards but in a good way. Same gear for both gigs. Unashamed Fender lover. Sound was great IMHO. My udual cheap quecha trainers as they are the best thing for my dodgy ankle (podiatrist and physiotherapist approved!)

Last night's gig report later. For various reasons I haven't played with the blues band for months. Just got a setlist and have to learn several songs before I leave at 2:30 for the gig. Hopefully a couple are straight 12 bars...

Before last night's gig. Guitarist (in jest) "I forgot to tell you were detuning by a semitone tonight" Me "Don't worry, if the bass is off it's everyone else who sounds out of tune"

That price is the dmx controller. The LED bar is much more expensive. Misleading listing... always check the drop downs.

I used to rehearse at Pirate in Nottingham. I learnt that if the Ashdomn combos sounded grim, find the sub control and turn it right off.

I have no idea - I left the band. But why should it need a patch to work properly?

That's me in about 65 minutes time...

I've seen a Helix require a few resets over a rehearsal more than once. Not at a gig so far.

Closely related... jeans with the crotch hear knee level. Sorry Gary Stringer... Saw a tall guy in the supermarket the other day, well over a foot taller than his partner. They both appeared to have legs the same length...

I think it was before they started drilling a hole from bridge to control cavity.

The original Greek is Aias so eye-ass. Ajax has become eh-jacks in English.

I see guitarists playing Blackstar amps almost as often as I see bass players using Mark Bass.

As a bass vi and a baritone guitar?

I think light oak will be far darker than your 'wet' image. Try a thin coat of varnish first.

You can get these in various finishes. https://www.guyker.com/en-gb/products/guyker-gb205-5-string-electric-bass-bridge-vintage-style-saddle-bridge Careful groove selection should allow you narrower but consitent string spacing.

After shipping that's £15 more than a Squier mini precision.

Well I'm 1962. Life is cruel to us when it comes to year of birth basses...

My brother had an expensive hike tent in his basket and was uhmming and ahhing over it for weeks. They randomly reduced it to 85% off. Free postage too!

Unisex.

His tone was pretty consistent between live and studio. Bear in mind that recording bass in the early '70s he would have probably gone straight into the desk while live it could have been that or more likely miked up speakers. This is probably the gold standard live recording of Andy Fraser: Note the very badly positioned (ribbon?) Microphone placed lined up with the centre of the four speakers about a foot out and angled down a bit. Surprising they got a decent tone... He gets a similar but brighter tone on the studio recording of mr big: I suspect he used the bridge mute on his EB3 as well as a lot of muting by alternating index and middle right hand fingers Flats? Probably. If I want an Andy Fraser sound I'd choose my Squier Jazz fitted with old style mutes.

Color : Flocculent Maple