Stub Mandrel

10 hours ago, nilorius said:

9 string? Good for my cat. 11- next generation!!!

Oi! NILO! NO!

10 hours ago, nilorius said:

9 string? Good for my cat. 11- next generation!!!

Oi! NILO! NO!

10 hours ago, neepheid said:

5 string?  Pah, amateur hour

 

That's not a bass. It's either a zither or a skateboard.

56 minutes ago, tony_m said:

 

I've been using a Lekato WS-50 (5.8GHz) set for a while now. As I wasn't happy with the way the transmitter would twizzle in the output socket, I've now got a Levy's wireless holder on my strap - the Lekato transmitter sits folded in this, plugged in to the female end of a 75cm male jack to female socket extension cable from Designacable. Works well enough, though I do sometimes wish I'd asked if I could have a right-angle jack on the instrument end of the cable as this would have been even neater.

 

https://www.designacable.com/un-balanced-guitar-extension-lead-van-damme-xke-cable.html

 

 

Good idea 💡

I'm getting increasingly comfortable on a 5, but can get lost if playing songs learnt on a 4 that involve fast multi-string/position riffs.

Definitely prefer the feel if a 4, though. For now I'm swapping between a 4 & 5 with a muting neutrik jack it only takes a few seconds.

Last night we played a 'night club', basically a big room with a bar at the back of a pub. We were to do 3 sets and somehow stretch thus from 8:30 to 'as near to one  as you can get'. Thus was first time for me using my brother's old PA.

Plenty of room to set up. I got quite stressed by issues like a non-functional speakon on a PA cab and a monitor that had its power lead unplugged.  Managed to set up four vocal mics with kick, snare and two overheads on the kit. Sound was rough we thought but was ok at front.

We negotiated a start at 9:10 and final set to start at 12:00. Place was weird with only 3 stools and a few tables. Had a modest number of people in by the time we started, say 35-40, and unashamedly went straight into Dakota which filled the dancefloor. Followed by White Room which still kept people going! That said as we went on some people left and others came in. What is and what should never be killed the atmosphere a bit... but we recovered. We ended up doing 50 minutes and audience seemed happy.

By the time we took a 35 minute break, we left with a fair number of people danving to a playlist through the pa, but came back in and the room was empty. Totally! Apparently the pub half had emptied too. We played a half a dozen songs to six people who came back in from outside, but no-one was coming in at all. Barman said this was only second time they had opened the back bar and the same thing had happened before. Also, their other pub, expected to empty about 11 and people move across - was virtually empty too. Basically it seems like there was hardly anyone about, although I think that not having any seating is a challenge if you want people to hang round for 4 ½ hours... I  think they really need a dj if they are going to spread band sets out so much. And let the band go on much later.

We cut the second set, got paid and packed up just over two hours early.

Only three punters wandered in while we were packing up and the streets were virtually empty.

On the plus side we got a paid rehearsaland learned an awful lot about our kit, some songs to lose and some things to work on, and I got home by just after 1 instead of nearly 3. But still not a great experience.

1 hour ago, Dan Dare said:

 

Were you interested in or enthusiastic about what he was trying to teach? Most teachers are more than happy to help anyone who's keen but finding it difficult. It's easy to blame teachers.

Not in my day. Most teachers were interested in cultivating ability which just entrenched the differences. But that was how education worked in the 70s, it was all rooted in streaming.

Thought I'd posted this...

The burgundy is not something I would have thought of, but it looks excellent.

3 hours ago, dave_bass5 said:

Yeah, i have considered that. I too was wary about the Boss sticking out when i had it, but i never had an issue. It felt solid sitting on the frotn of the P bass. 

Seems odd that the 'premium' Boss offering doesn't fold like the Lekato. OK it's chunkier, probably because it has more tricks in it or a bigger battery, but surely it wouldn't be hard to do?

I keep my Lekato's in the robust cardboard box they came in (fits snugly in one of my cases). On the layer of foam that fits on top of the insert I've written 'Charged' and 'Flat' on opposite sides to avoid relying on memory. 

11 hours ago, Muzz said:

What is it with some singers and not being able to frickin stop? I was spoiled for years with a very pro outfit that had a strict 'Two encores and they're lucky to get that' policy, and it never did any harm, in fact it kept us in high regard, but the current band/BL drives me nuts: if there's a single drunk (who's invariably spent most of the evening talking through the set and only come up for the last two) asking for more, it happens...and keeps happening until there's literally no-one asking for more. I've called it at five encores before now. There's a perfectly good get-out clause to stop, too: we used to just tell the drunks we had to stop because of time/the landlord, and that always worked. Bah, humbug, and probably pfffttt... 🙂

 

Oh, and back OT, if there's a Maccy D's on the way back (and there usually is), the Wrap Of The Day happens in the car (most of my gigs are 20 miles+ away), before a sit at a quiet telly with a brew while my system slows down before bed... 🙂

My brother's band took the "leave them wanting more" approach on the grounds it makes them look good and helps secure more bookings.

On 05/04/2024 at 12:23, Woodinblack said:

 

Only 1 in 10 of our gigs would be further than 15 minutes. 1 in 40 would be almost an hour. Don't think I have ever done a gig more than an hour and a half away. We are purely local!

Not for me... but I do gave a gig less than a minute's walk away in the summer.

On 04/04/2024 at 02:11, Bluewine said:

Walked around in the theatre lobby hoping to get recognized.  

 

" Who wants to meet me? " lol

 

Daryl

 

I had a fan approach me with our live cd "do you think Alex will sign this?"

😢

On 02/04/2024 at 09:40, nilorius said:

What exactly did You did after Your last gig, before or after packing Your instruments and gear ?

Guinness at the gig.

Early finish.

Dropped my stuff in my partner's house.

Went to the Ex Servicemen's club to met her and friends. VoG Bass bitter.

Spoons. Strongbow, Jack Daniels. More Jack. Round of fireball shots.

The 'Fag'. Jack. Two rounds of baby guinness.

Not sure anything happened on Sunday...

On 28/02/2024 at 12:00, Barking Spiders said:

yeah of course, Brum in particular has been the hotbed of metal and hard rock in the UK. 

And the valleys!

On 26/02/2024 at 10:36, Leonard Smalls said:

That's a bit catch-all!

Rhythm and Blues was coined in 1949 as a phrase by a journo from Billboard magazine to describe, basically, black music. This included blues, jazz, swing etc, and had artists as varied as Louis Jordan, Big Joe Turner, Nat King Cole, The Fabulous Platters. As black music moved away from the basic 12 bar structure a new term was coined -"soul".

Meanwhile, a bunch of Brits had got into the blues and started their own combos based on their interpretation of this sound - It got rockier, and many British folks feel that this pub-rock sound is what Rhythm and Blues is/should be.

Meanwhile, in the US the term "Black Music" was coined, which covered everything from Miles Davis to Parliament and everything inbetween. However, in the 80s more white artists were using African-American influences so by 1990 Billboard re-purposed the term R&B to mean almost any music of black origin, which is a very wide church even discounting jazz (though this has just as many haters within the BC community as modern R&B!).

Me? I like bits of all of 'em

Modern RnB is a marketing category for all black music other than hip hop.

Rather like lumping all 'white' music other than country as pop.

After some thought... N.I.B.

1 hour ago, dmccombe7 said:

WOW that's a bit of a blow but well done the 22 yr old and wishing you all the best with the gig.

Dave

The guys are buzzing this morning. I've got complacent about just how lucky I am to play with Alex.

Not a gig, but we had a rehearsal last night... our second gig is coming up on Saturday and our lead guitarist can't make it, in fact he apologetically resigned as he can't commit to gigs far enough ahead.

I asked Alex from my other band to dep which was met with a bit of scepticism as he's only 22.

The rehearsal went really well, the clincher was John Mayer's Who Did You Think I Was. Alex hadn't heard it before, listened to it once and nailed it 😲 Tony our drummer literally had his jaw dropped when we finished it.

Fingers crossed we can repeat the feat on the weekend as it's three 45 minute sets so we'll have to include all the hard songs...

15 hours ago, MacDaddy said:

 

 

A quick look at Sam Fox's discography on Wikipedia, shows she had 3 Gold albums in the USA, and featured in the Top 10 of their Hit Parade 3 times.

And this!

It's said Lemmy felt this was his best bassline. Not very Motorhead...

Hmm. Rate this thread:

On overrated bass players: 5/10 (average).

On averages: 3/10 (below average, median and mode).

On pizza: 9/10 ...

On 06/04/2024 at 13:02, casapete said:

I think types of Asian bread ( naan etc) served with curry etc are completely different from the exotic pizzas

mentioned on here . Pizza is by definition ( for me anyway) a doughy base topped with a tomato sauce and mozzarella,

and then adorned with various other items. I dislike pizza without the tomato/mozzarella combo, and those with

toppings that any proud Italian would refrain from eating. 
Blimey, people will be having curry sauce with fish&chips next - oh, wait a minute………😆

Pizza is just an open topped italian pie. No ingredient is essential except the base.

On 06/04/2024 at 01:03, Frank Blank said:

Several...

• Lord Lucan
• Yvonne Goolagong
• Lyme Regis
• Janet Street-Porter
• Tony Gubba
• The Larch
• Archbishop Justin Welby
• Ali Bongo
• The Galloping Gourmet
• Finsbury Park
• Delia Smith
• The Bakerloo Line
• @Teebs
• Maigret
• Faith Brown
• Jeremy Thorpe
• Kendo Nagasaki
• Lloyd Grossman
• Lloyd Bridges
• Lloyds Bank
• Keith Floyd
• Charlie (from Charlie's Angels)
• Vangelis
• Liberace

I am gutted to find myself omitted from your list.