Stub Mandrel

Spent an hour trying these side by side. Both made in Mexico. First using a small Markbass combo. They both sounded good, the deluxe maybe marginally brighter. The bridge pickup on the Flea sounded muted - even compared to the sound of my Squier Jazz in my head. Controls on the Flea more intuitive than the confusing four knobs on the Deluxe. Then on a Rumble 100 - weighs 18lbs!!! - which sorted the sound of the Flea completely. perhaps the vintage pickups just want a more vintage sounding amp? This was with both amps on a near 12-o'clock setting. 'Feel wise' and the Flea was in a completely different universe. The Fender Deluxe was a couple of steps below my 2001 Indonesian Squier - it was nice enough but not inspiring. I did find it surprisingly easy to slap on though, but it wasn't 'left hand friendly'. Came away with the flea 🙂

And last night at the Albert Hall Phil Cambell joined Hawkwind on stage!

Amazing - the redness is actually leaking out of the guitar and colouring the whole room!

Hmm.i like twin humbuckers. I don't like square control plates. Could do with f holes too... But worth a try.

Fascinating. Ibut like my modelling guitar amp I can see it getting plenty of use at home but not much gigging. Unless I do succeed in starting a space rock band.

I've had a bit of good fortune. But despite trying really hard I can't find myself lusting for a new bass. A 62 Jazz would be good, expect I have blinged my Squire one to the Max and tonight it got praised highly for tone even through my tiny orange crush 25. My Performer is so playable as well. The only things I can get excited about at all would be a £140 Talman or a Epiphone masterbilt semi acoustic. I just can't get remotely excited about anything custom shop, Sandberg's, wals or even boutique stuff. Even a Jabba would only get me wanting to make my own. Perhaps I should just buy some really nice timber as an investment in a future project.

That's why I said, trying to cut Al off at the pass 😁. SY1 doesn't really count as they are like unicorn poo.

But which one? Already got one which works like a 'better knob', but which one is the dog's of compressors?😁

If one pedal (not a combo) was going to transform my sonic landscape, what should I add to my setup? Other than an SY1

Jimi Hendrix, Isle of Wight. Vinyl.

Hope Dave's cold has dried up now 🙂

It's an option in the embed dialogue, not sure you can use that with BC.

I remember trying a Mustang in the early 80s, just when I was getting into bass, it was very nice.

Holy s**t, wish I'd seen that one. Eric and Dave busked together pre-famousness.

"How about getting vocalist in, then we could make more of your excellent guitar skills..."

20 12 array? One of these...?

That's the extreme stealth model?

It's so different coming back into music after nearly 25 years. Back in the first half of the 90s you could play a new venue, all originals and have everyone happy and dancing (if your songs were danceable).

I find Boswellia Serrata (indian frankinsense) works well fore me - has also done well in double bind trials, including combined with turmeric).

Possibly vitamin D. My brother suffered pain for years until being diagnosed with chronic vitamin D deficiency, he now has to take twice the RDI. A few days without and he starts to get back pain.

Probably...

Went in Home Bargains today looking for a luggage scale to weigh my basses... They had disposable Ukes for £8.99 and Classical 'guitars' for £19.99. But they also had guitar stands, and not the usual cheap tripod which is too small to give decent stability, but proper A-frame ones. Not as heavily built as my 35-year old Arbiter one but well-enough made for home and even occasional stage use and deep enough for anything up to a jumbo acoustic. Just right for my headless Jack! And only £7.99!

MUST ... OBEY... SIR HISS...

At a wild, unsubstantiated guess I'd say it was an Eros SG copy... but what do I know? Allegedly as much favoured by Polly Harvey.