Stub Mandrel

That's exactly what I was about to say. A new bass should be pretty much immaculate, not chipped and scratched. They should have refined the body before letting it out of their workshop.

They have a couple here.

Ptash. At least Rush will deliver a quality performance.

The only time I made an impression at Karaoke was when I chose "Firestarter" 🤣

A seat with a view of the stage at Ronnie's that's a score.

Just joshing...

Why buy a cheap one from China, when you can pay a king's ransom for one from America that's almost as bad? 😁

I've just booked into a hotel for three nights. The 'above lively music venue' was an attraction... I enquired and it's karaoke on friday and saturday...

3" O think! pjb eat yer heart out!

I once added a port to a small combo I made, using the cut and try a card tube method. This improved it. I felt the wadding was a bit dense and started pulling bits out of the port. By the time I had pulled all the wadding I could get to out of the hole, it sounded much better. Not sure this is of any use, except to say don't be afraid to experiment.

We work a few songs in parallel... otherwise it would take forever.

With better spelling, I hope.

Me...

See... you know what I mean.

I have (hopefully) four more cheap dmx PAR lights (for a total of six) coming tomorrow with one of the cheap controllers. It may be weeks before I have time to experiment propery dueto work

Start on the g string, any note, come down one fret higher on each string so you're back on the first note an octave higher on the E string. The intervals are all major thirds so any of the notes can be the notional root. G, Eb, B, G perhaps surprisingly, resolves nicely to E. The song in question uses just three chords: Em, C, G. We certainly struggled for a long time we were trying to finish on a C chord (over which G bass sounded best) to create an unsettling effect but we couldn't get happy with it. But omitting the G letting the C hang and the bass does a run up then down that chord then E works. There's probably some deep musical theory at work but I'm b****** if I know what it is.

And Dr Snuggles. Watch to the very end 😁

That's a plus!

At last night's rehearsal we thrashed three songs over three hours to hone their structures. I was charged with finding a satisfying end to one song and after much trial and error found that adding a descending arpeggio of a four note G-augmented chord was an awesome way to take my finishing run down to the final E. I've never found a 'musical' application for one before but it sounded absolutely perfect. We'd tried loads of ideas but going up to the G then down sounded perfect. No punter will ever appreciate six people spending fifteen minutes to get to that!

That's what Phil said he'd done at the start.

Not a matching headstock. Phew!

To be fair, he switched off tweeters in the larger cabs 🙂

Actually I was just baffled that it left me off the list...

Fritz keeps Vlogging us!

Meta AI (Facebook) updated me on musicians fom my home town.