Stub Mandrel

We're struggling with Hysteria. I want to follow the drummer, he's struggling to lock into the riff. He wants me to accent a pulse but I'm struggling. Even though it's down as straight sixteenth notes (mostly) I feel it swings a bit, especially the second bar of the main part. I've managed to drop the odd extra note I was dropping in, but that only seems to gave made it worse as I think he was listening for the double notes to start some bars. Doesn't help that the recorded verdion is just a wall of sound so I've been practicing to the Ultimate Guitar online player. Left wondering is it me or the drummer?

Is it a walk in shop, and if so where is it? I would be interested to visit (but my wallet would be scared...)

Not many people, best estimate I've seen is 250-300 made.

Rough one tonight. Rythym guitarist forgot. Singer was under the weather. We were all cold. I just couldn't get any fluency in my playing, frankly I felt I was crap, my fingers were not obeying my brain. We went through a fair bit of stuff some ok some not so ok. Cold is not good for a rehearsal space.

I've read the comments but not watched the video... yet. I can make huge changes to my tone with playing style and hand position. I stopped using effects 18 months ago and am now gradually reintroducing them - as effects, not as part of my fundamental tone. The two effects that improve tone are compression and a hpf. But compression limits you being able to dig in for overdiven sounds. I sometimes play with pickup blend/selection. I notice, I'm not sure the audience do.

I was thinking about medicines available in the 50s.

Can you invest in a lightweight cab?

Great things in small packages.

Just a thought, but when Fender have brought out something truly different (point headstock, radical body shape, two octave neck, super thin neck, tbx tone control, micro-tilt etc.) no-one bought them.

Penicillin? Insulin? Etc. 😁

EB just stands for 'Electric Bass' the number designates the body shape/pickups.

My brother sent Gibson a video of his robo-tuners spontaneously unwinding all of the strings on his guitar. It was too unreliable to gig.

We've got three gigs in March... so we've announced it as a mini tour 🙂

The side markers? As above, self adhesive dots. Reversible but effective.

My weak link. As I play a lot of blues, mixylodian comes naturally to me. Other than major/minor ionian/aeolian, I use harmonic minor. I suppose the really interesting thing about mides is each one changes the selection of major and minor chords available.

Flea Jazz.

Just paid £50 for a Hawkwind ticket (after fees and buyer protection). Felt that was STEEP!

I thought Fender's luxury brand was G&L 🙂

Ha! BOTH my Jazz basses are different from each other. One is a 2002 pre-Affinity Squier Standard by the way and it's nice.

Hence 'inverse' snobbery.

I think Leo must have thought about the issue, as the neck pickups are 0.15" narrower, but he obviously miscalculated. Lots of hits for 'pickups not aligning' with pictures of jazz basses with the E and G strings overlapping the inner pole pieces of their respective pairs. As six-pole guitar pickups work perfectly well on a bass, itxs clwarly the overall shape of the magnetic field not the exact location of the pole pieces that matters.

Fender doing a 15% off sale today. Squire Sonic Bronco for £179. In 'ultraviolet' or 'lime green'. Unsurprisingly, ultraviolent is sold out, but slime green still available, if you like that sort of thing.

I think in the old days if you wanted more than two musicians, the venue had to be 'licensed for music and dancing'. I'm in a 'blues rock power trio' 😎 and a five piece classic rock band. Trio is brilliant as it is much easier to be loose and improvise, but to sound good you need to be on top of your game. The five piece, even though it only adds one guitar the sound and discipline needed are very ddifferenn but lets you tackle a wider sonic landscape. I was in a six-piece that added keyboards and that could be a nightmare for agreeing arrangements.

Jazz bass string spacing is 19mm. If the alignment with the pole pieces offends your eye, it could be considered a built in flaw of the pickup design. But every stock jazz ever has essentially the same issue.

Not quite the same thing, but if I gave any concerns about a gig... lighting, pressure to deliver, feeling under the weather, I make life as easy as possible for myself and take my Flea Jazz bass for maximum playability. My Sire P10 gets close.