Stub Mandrel

And the valleys!

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.

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...

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 ...

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

I am gutted to find myself omitted from your list.

He Is Come! We are touched by his noodly appendages!

All my Fenders and Squiers must have Fender straps (they don't do squier ones 🤨). This one on my AVII 1960 P has a period correct Fender logo 😁 so counts as coordinated! Blue Red

Like @skidder652003 last night it was the huge pub, big audience but felt half empty. Bar manager (a drummer) apologised for it being quiet due to the weather but it was still more people than most places we play. Despite being a 'rock' demographic not much atmosphere to feed off although some folks danced or filmed us. But odd night all round. Drummer forgot his cymbals and had 80 minute round trip to fetch them. But 7:30 start(!) We made 7:40, and were done two hours later! Even with our long pack up and long drive I got back to the local for 11:20 and somehow ended up mixing Jack Daniels and baby Guinness until 2am... We all felt we weren't at our best, but t afterwards and half time got people saying it was good. And we got a booking at the break from the landlady of another pub and another landlord took a card. So we were probably ok but really didn't feel it! That said, we had a couple of off piste improvisations that were fun, and I doubled a bit of Alex's solo on sharp dressed man - he started laughing and then I got cocky and fumbled... I did do some bvs, hopefully enough that people weren't wondering why on earth I had a microphone.

Oh ... and a Frijid Pink style House ofvthe Rusing Sun.

I'd been playing Feeling Good for two years before I found out we were doing the Muse version...

The Lekato is embarrassingly good. My brother reckons it makes his signal a bit 'hotter'.

I am very happy with my Orange Terror. Easy to get a good sound, but not versatile- suits if you like the Orange sound.

Not the most technical, but Sabbath Bloody Sabbath starts as heavy as anyone else, then gets heavier for the bridge. Pretty much defined stoner/doom metal as a genre in one song.

£895 now... and get thee behind me, I am signed up for the abstinence thread!

I don't subscribe to that view, but rather like the Amadeus clip there is some truth in the idea you can have too many notes. It's very hard to play fast or percussively and be expressive and melodic (although Wooten does in the clip above IMHO). But there are an uncountable multitude of middle ways between mindless shredding and plain root-notes, many of which are more interesting.

Maybe, but I'm a sucker for a 'split' pickguard a la WEM/Burns. Nearly bought an original 60s WEM in a Manchester music shop a couple of years ago. Totally original it seemed, £700, don't know if that was fair, but it was a great bass to play. <Edit> I think it was an original Rapier, like this one... in which case the 24 fret neck is correct!

That's one thing about the steering wheel exercise. It may sound silly, but as the wheel is slightly compliant but not rigid, it forces you to control your touch.

@Gasman, what a tough thing to go through. So sorry.

There seems to be considerable confusion between the roles of a producer and a sound engineer. That said, I can imagine that inexperienced bands in a studio with an experienced engineer can get and benefit from more than just technical advice.

JHS have relaunched the Rapier brand. Nice retro looks at modest proices. Has anyone seen one in the wild? https://www.jhs.co.uk/collections/rapier https://www.jhs.co.uk/collections/rapier/products/rapier-bass-guitar-daphne-blue