Stub Mandrel

OH dear. A go-faster-stripe for basses, with similarly dubious aesthetic benefits... >ducks<

What does it do? Do you slap against it?

Gigging is great. How many childhood dreams do you get to live out - more than once?

Neigh.

Super short clip. The clue is - if I played this from the start it would be recognised in seconds...

Dancing in the Moonlight 🙂 I'll get one up soon to keep us going until @Jimothey sorts his out.

Yep, Down in the Tube Station at Midnight. Missed it by 2 minutes.

My brother's 62 (not 63, after doing S/N checks...)

Benjamin Zephaniah 🙂

Looks good form here, I even recognised the song from the intro! Camera angles might have been better, until 4:34 🙂 Is that Charlie's violin?

700W peak power? It's obviously designed to work with a super-inefficient car audio speaker.... https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=350W+loudspeaker&ref=nb_sb_noss

Do we get extra points for demonstrating long term Roto-loyalty? (At least for bass strings...) 🙂

Some was... Golf Girl. The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles. A Door Opens and Closes.

LOL! You Tube's algorithms seem to think those are Rose Petals showering the audience...

From experience of flat-fingerboard instruments like banjos, ukes and mandolins they often have a slightly unpleasant 'concave' appearance, I would always want at least a little radius to avoid this.

Mine had a tiny raised spot just below the fifth fret position on the A-string, gave a slight buzz when playing a D. Barely detectable with a straight edge, a few seconds of scraping with a scalpel sorted it, probably only noticeable because I'm a low-action freak.

Bit gutted to see the first bass featured in this thread was a Maya, although the picture is gone. I wouldn't swap this one, I've had it about 32 years:

Early 80s, this one. The hole was just to see if my paper punch could do it:

Keep trying 🙂

Identify the guy introducing our band...

Young Ian Dury with those eyebrows, surely?

Ken Dodd used to recruit his Diddy Men from local stage schools and never paid them a penny from the large tax-free stash under his bed... I think the Tattoo is a rip off because of the massive commitment required which won't add much more to your cv than just doing one night. In the past I played few gigs for nothing, charity gigs, small local festival, wedding of a band member. Now I'm 'back', I'm happy for us to do a few free gigs to get some experience under our belts with less stress. I've offered us for an event that otherwise woudln't have any music, no pressure and we can treat it like almost a rehearsal. Once we are up to speed with two hours+ of material and a demo, I'd expect us to be getting paid.

People forget that the punks are up listening to other types of music! Johnny Rotten got into trouble for admitting he was a big fan of Hawkwind. Still a big fan of Hawkwind, seeing them on my birthday in November :-)

Despite getting into them late (La Folie tour) by about 85 the two bands I had seen most were the Stranglers and Hawkwind.

Go on, admit that it's a skiffle group 🙂