Stub Mandrel

Tank & Anvil supporting Motorhead Stranglers several times in the early 80s. Swarb & Martin in a tiny pub room - they had a small PA and amps but decided not to use them!

How about: Jethro Tull Richard Thompson Stranglers Dave Swarbrick and Martin Carthy Anvil Show of Hands Tank Anna Ryder Johnny England Rush

Haven't heard that for decades. For some reason if you'd asked me who it was by I would have said the Sweet! I only remembered the 'lazer blazer love' bit.

Nanci Griffith

They might be both neck or both bridge units? Usually a matched pairs have opposite magnet orientations to reverse the signal. Can you test with a magnet to see if they are both the same polarity? If so you will get a decnt signal but won't get a humbucking effect with both dialled up.

Each pickup gives an electric signal that although not identical is very similar. Connected together the right way they add up and make a louder output. Connected the wrong way (out of phase) one signal is subtracted from the other so you only hear the difference, which is mostly extra harmonics from the bridge pickup and more fundamental note from the neck pick up. This means you hear relatively little bass and lots of harmonics.

I've got a Google Hangout meeting for an astroclub tomorrow, but numbers are limited to 25.

Giving this a go, so far the first 20% isn't too bad but not much respect for time or tempo 🙂 Ikeep wanting to play it to a funky rythym :🤡

Stops me feeling guilty about having Fender straps on my Squiers. 🙂

The 'oo.

Let me correct that for you 🙂

Yep. I finally got tickets to see them with my brother for last October. Then Biff had heart surgery so it was postponed to March and we all know what happened next...

I'm not convinced many of the bass players quoted above are... Suzi being a notable exception 🙂

Nope, got dragged along to see Radiohead. Only drealised they were a 'known' band when they played Paranoid Android and I recognised it... Cornershop -I saw them before they became famous supporting Gong(!) They were utterly dire - noise for the sake of noise, basically Zero Tolerance for Silence less the talent and musicality...

There's a difference between being inspired bgy someone and being inspired by a photo of them 😞 Sorry Norman!

Saw them twice. Once as 'local crew' next night on the guest list as a reward 🙂

There must be some 'rogue' TU3s about, because mine is solid as a rock. As for clip ons, a Snark is £15 so it's hardly worth bothering with a cheaper one unless you are seriously skint.

Saw them supported by a much more impressive Oysterband at Coventry S.U. Despite only being in my mid 30s, I felt very old...

Whee! Here are some of the less obvious bands in my history: Gene Cornershop Chumbawamba Radiohead Here and Now Saxon Hank Wangford Sky Raid the North Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul

Watching Supersonic yesterday, during Oasis' car crash gig at the Whisky a GO Go I noticed the front centre monitor (which did look a bit war-worn) had 'NO FEET' written in tape over the speaker grille. FTFAGOS! The only reason I'm in a band is to put my foot on the monitors!

Just watched Supersonic. Worth watching, but frustrating in that it didn't really explore the music, ended at Knebworth without actually documenting the split. Thing that struck me most was that whenever one of the other nband members was in shot when Liam or Noel was holding forth they either looked deeply embarrassed or were desperately trying to look like they were enjoying the joke...

Most of my hobbies involve trying to make something into something it isn't. :-) This would be pretty straightforward - fit head in a 17" rack unit, cut top off cab, re-cover top, fit jack socket on the back. Nothing that will affect sound or performance.

Depeche Mode?

Soft Cell (I did my list already for FB, but I can't get a right answer 😞 )

Argh! How does he do that with his leg?