Stub Mandrel

I saw them with Fish twice, back in the 80s, including the epic Reading '83 set. Then on my birthday in 2021, with Steve Hogarth. I was given the ticket as a present and thoroughly enjoyed it.

I’d love to be in a pre 1974 Gong tribute band. If I was good enough... 😬

Fun pub venue on Saturday. Probably one of the most appreciate audiences for classic rock we will find.

Us bunch on welshmen make a good job of songs by a certain rock band. The guys weren't impressed when I suggested we have a parallel tribute band called 'Sheep Purple'.

It's that new Behringer 'quantisation and tempo' pedal...

I've been to too many jazz gigs where the rotation of solos is de rigeur, even keeping the same order of musicians for most songs 😞

I was in my late 20s when I stopped going to jazz gigs after I realised any band called "XXXXXXX Jazz" was going to do just that, and that most people's solos were virtually the same regardless of the song. As someone in a blues band, I've seen a lot more musical creativity in blues solos than most jazz ones...

I went to one event where what was basically the whole of a Grateful Dead tribute got up and for their first song launched into Dark Star... 😂

It just wends into your brain...

Funnily enough I've bought another lot with my business details on... just as a quirky promo.

Mazak and Zamak are more popularly kniwn as 'monkey metal' in engineering circles. That should tell you everything you need to know.

Looking back over this thread, the Cobra 90 is definitely the clear winner. The guy who introduced me to bass had one back in the 80s. He hated it.

Today's rehearsal was much better. We have no trouble with Uprising n hut the better we get at Hysteria the more we discover, the challenge for all of us is keepingtogether and in the pocket. The drummer has been obsessed with a challenge to just play constant 16th notes for three minutes "if you can do that you've got it". In the end I just did it... long enough that he now appreciates stamina is not the issue... but then we had a bit of a lightbulb moment. I started off just playing the root notes. Lo and behold everyone else managed to lock together properly and after the first chorus I went to the proper bassline and we more or less nailed it to the end. My main challenge is setting the tempo right and then staying locked in with the drummer. Other stuff was less exciting. Played a few on a fiver which had me improvising some nice bits. We finished on uprising again, I played it low on the five string instead of using the octaver. I thought a tendon in my palm was going to snap... at the end my left hand was warped into a claw!

Might have been thinking if my brother's Westone Spectrum. Mist have bbot bridges but some have a similar one:

We had a rehearsal last monday. Still unused to the clock change I was thinking of cooking my tea when I got rung up. It was about two hours later thsn I thought. Got there 40 minutes late... recovered some goodwill by handing out band plectrums. We were all a bit raggedy, the more we try Hysteria the worse we thknk we are at it, but we're doing Uprising too and that's easy. Hopefully better tomorrow.

A Google reverse image search came up with a few ideas. This is a much better looking one off Amazon, but actually sold by Northwest Guitars for about £22. https://www.amazon.co.uk/String-Electric-Precision-Guitar-Bridge/dp/B00BR0O5PS

Yes some of those Amazon ones look very cheaply made (that one looked better on my phone, now it's huge on my PC...) I'm sure I've seen your 'original' bridge somewhere before in the mists of time...

I bought personalised plectrums for my band as promo items. I'm slowly giving them away. As I don't play with them, do they count?

Other options: https://www.musicstore.com/en_GB/GBP/Ibanez-2BB4ACA026-Bass-Bridge-Set-B305-Cosmo-Black/art-GIT0036582-000 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bridge-Installation-4-string-Durable-Performance/dp/B0CRJZX4D4

Bass player Pete Hurley was in Lone Star 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Just turned up at my local club for the Red Hot Pokers. They've backed lots of famous blues players and toured as van Morrison's band. That's Marco Palladino on drums (Pino's brother). Not bad for a local club, and it's packed.

It used to be that the system was somewhat loaded in favour of establishing a small company instead of being self-employed. The ideabis to encourage entrepreneurs and grow the economy. Doing this and being VAT registered has enabled me to subcontract out work I would no otherwise have taken on. The income benefit of having a personal company instead of being self-employed was eroded so much under a succession of tory governments (reductions in dividend allowances and increase in dividend tax rates) the benefit is now so small that it is questionable if it's worth the effort. The way covid support was set up excluded single person companies and forced us into covid loans we are still paying off. Quite extraordinary for the 'party of smsll business'.

Only about 11 lined up between now and September and one venue has gone worryingly quiet. Most are at venues I like playing.