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I've literally just put a precision neck on my jazz as I'm really struggling with the toothpick feel of the neck, but I love the sound of single coils and the playing position of a jazz. It's probably a lot more common than you think.

Kasleder Freaky Stone, GE based fuzz face designed/optimised for bass, specifically shortscale hollowbodies with flats.

Love machine - Girls Aloud don't judge... 🤪

My approach varies depending on how well I know the song (in a general sense). I recently learned Jean Genie. I've busked it at jams a few times and know the structure simply from having heard it a lot. I had to learn the proper details, especially around the chorus but it was fairly straightforward. On the other hand although I 'knew' keep on running it was not well and I was surprised by the complexities in the verse and chorus... especially the changes in syncopation. Plus there were several different tabs so I had to decide which was most accurate. I broke it down into sections. I did one ir two play throughs at half tempo to make sure I had the rhythm right. Then it was brute force... start at the beginning and see how far I could get. My two rules... 1) if I keep making a mistake stop, slow right down and get it righ. Practising a mistake is never a good idea. 2) walk away, ideally sleep on it. You will always be better on returning to . Combine the two approaches. Accuracy at the expense of speed, plus a chance for your brain to process the learning = much faster and more accurate next time around. So my learning is usually many songs in parallel, rather than one at a time. Currently learning 34 songs - a soundcheck, two 15 song sets, and 3 encores. Luckily most I already know or am familiar with and many (but not all) are reasonably straightforward.

I found the MXR Blowtorch to be particularly nuts, and they can be found quite cheap. Was going to ditch mine until I was just messing about with it and put the middle and treble on full (frequency switch to the right, can’t remember the numbers), bass at about 11 o’clock. And you can blend it too. Powerful and very, very fuzzy.

The 'Back To Oakland' album - Tower of Power with Rocco right in the pocket:

Oo! In that case I'll take two of them.

Google translate strikes again. With apologies if the intended humour has just gone over my head, I’ll defend the seller’s entirely appropriate use of the German word Koffer in this context to mean hard case (as well as its more common meaning of suitcase). Though maybe I shouldn’t be tangling with someone with self-confessedly big hands…

That'll be £3000 please, Sir.

Yup, the Thames Water relic edition awaits your delectation .....

TRB1005j reminds me ive not played it enough recently..

Strict Machine - Goldfrapp