Stub Mandrel

May I assist? 🙂

Just on this, if your turnover (not profit) from minor activities (selling at car boots, amazon commission, playing gigs) is no more than £1000 you don't have to pay any tax. for a typical 4-piece that's £4,000 a year.

I've read fair few reviews on Thomann and they ring true as they are not simply 'this is great'.

Lots of possible effects: High frequencies are more directional, you don't hear as much treble if the speakers are pointing at your legs. At high volumes bass sounds louder, so close up exaggerates the low frequencies Then there are acoustic effects that are going to be venue specific - and change when full of people all absorbing sound (I recall the Albert Hall hgas seats designed to absorb about the same amount of sound when flipped up as when they have someone sat in them).

No Prisoners!

Could be b-stock sold from the factory back door because of that broken logo.

Thomann's own-brands products have a reputation for doing the job intended without setting the world alight. A bit like (exactly like?) buying power tools from Aldi or Lidl ... fair value for the money with a decent warranty.

If it's just cracked lacquer, rather than cracked wood, you can argue it's a unique instrument that has real collector value.

Oh oh oh oh oh oh, You don't have to go, oh oh oh oh oh You don't have to go, oh oh oh oh oh You don't have to go

Maybe you saw the movie 🙂 We played around the Rugby area from about '93 - '95

For my first band all the rehearsals were at the top of the fire escape in this google streetview clip:

Just make sure you don't pop your g-string in public...

That's helpful, thanks! I had a look and the XLR socket did seem to be just wired across the jack (which has been replaced - proper chrome one on order). The speakers fitted are definitely 8R. Adding another cab is more about extending the bass response, I suppose a 1115 would have been ideal for me! Plus I like having a 'stack' - what's the point of playing rock star if you can't have a stack? 😎 That ECI thing is good to know about

The three bands I've been in: Drastic Action (covers band playing a fair bit of, you've guessed it, Dire Straits) Head in a Helix (slightly psychedelic indie rock, I thought of that one, pun on Hedera helix, latin name for ivy...) Two Moon Junction (Sounded like the Beautiful South/Housemartins, from a b-movie with 'adult' content, I have no idea why - named before I joined)

Sadly true. I'm rapidly realising that the audience for unsigned (unsignable) originals bands is not what it was in the 90s.

Rock doesn't live in stadiums, it lives in sweaty back-rooms with sticky floors.

OI! I resemble that remark. My radio is permanently tuned to Planet Rock on DAB and Radio 4 on FM. I have much gratitude to Planet Rock for bringing things I'd missed to my attention - especially Phil Alexander for introducing me to High Tide and The Monks (60s American one) as well as encouraging me to buy Slade's first two albums. I was going to claim to being bang up to date by liking Muse and Clutch... That said I enjoy house and trance more than sludgy-death-core-djent-trash-gore-metal; but that's because dance music hits some of the same buttons as, say, Space Ritual for me, not because I want to dance to it... The big question for 'rock is/isn't dead' debate is the Greta Van Fleet question. Let's skip over Josh's appalling re-interpretation of hippy fashion; the big issue is that (despite now getting fed up of the consequences and rowing back a bit) they are the first band that has shamelessly established itself as a pure Led Zeppelin pastiche. Yes, back in the 70s lots of bands owed a huge chunk of their sound to LZ, but they were all overtly try hard not to be Zeppelin. GVF have (had) no shame having all the appearance of a tribute band playing the tracks that fell on the cutting room floor. What this means raises some interesting issues: Just what are tribute, pastiche, imitation and inspiration? You could argue that what GVF do to LZ is more original than what SRV did to JH... Does rock music have to innovate to be valid? Are we old farts right to get upset because a new generation are cl;aiming our heritage and serving it up again in their context?

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Or Fender Rhodes...

Clear Air Turbulence would be great for a Jazz-Funk outfit, but it's already the name of a Gillan album.

I'll talk to myself - I appear to have discovered a few things: It's actually a 1110 Combo (GP11 V5 is just the preamp). It would originally have had four Celestion drivers, so the Eminences are an update (not sure if an upgrade or not?) The Eminences Alpha 10A are 8 ohm speakers so presumably series parallel, as I opened it up and the cab has internal spade connectors and the resistance is 5.8R which is right for 8R impedance. So I can add the sockets for an external 8R cab - that should get my trousers flapping. Inside discovered excellent shielding and a super quiet fan for the power amp.

I couldn't resist fretting with my thumb only for a while the other day 🙂 There is a video but I won't see quite how embarassing I was until 4 June...

Don't... the evil thought of having Laney probass one side and Trace Elliot the other has already crossed my warped mind. Who needs windows?

Two separate power amps! Unfortunately this document is too recent to cover the one I've just got properly 😞 trace-elliot_GP11-AH350-AH500-MK-V-BASS.pdf

Try giving away a piano on gumtree... "You do realise you will need at least two and probably three people to move it?" "No, it won't fit in a car."