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Very good post in every respect Ben, thanks 🙏

I've honestly never got on with any of my 'dream basses'. Custom orders have never worked out for me for some reason. I've always been a 'try before you buy' kind of player. I bought my main Status bass 19 years ago as a stock bass after buying [and selling off] two custom orders. Most other instruments I've bought second hand and some have become mainstay working basses that I wouldn't sell on, like my 2016 Elite Jazz, GB Spitfire, or my Status Stealth. I would like an Alembic Series 2, but they are all the money these days, so hardly likely. Maybe a Victor Wooten Fodera Monarch Yin-Yang, but I'm never really comfortable playing someone else's signature bass. Apart from that, I'll wait to see what takes my fancy next time... I will say that I'm really enjoying gigging my simple passive American Fenders at the moment and am looking forward to the completion of my Walnut/Graphite Jazz build.

Lourdes Knows - 2Pac

We drop the 30 second organ intro to Faith but otherwise it's exactly like the record.

and the Blue Moon guitar..

Im sure potential buyers of a $350 Harley Benton will now buy a $1500 US made Fender or Gibson. Having said that, Harley Davidson would be long dead if it weren't for tariffs on far better imported Japanese bikes.

"Ted clearly didn't listen to his bandmates even when they repeatedly told him that a rubber bass was not a good idea in hot climates..."

Here's the Strat version https://reverb.com/uk/item/7274703-very-rare-brian-eastwood-bender-distortocaster

Thats why you don't leave your P bass leaning against a radiator

Yeah they were like the icing on the cake. Looks good and sounds even better. However, the Fender flats are good but I think I'm going to try the GHS Precision flats and if they don't float my boat, my fav Dunlop flats will go on. They always make a p-bass sing in my opinion.

Saw this earlier on my feed. I’d love one but can’t imagine it’s going to cost less the £600, at the least.

I always love the wenge necks. I'm not sure they make much difference at all in tone, definitely not noticeable once you're playing live. (Not that I do lol). The Warwick does have a real meaty tone. Especially with 2 x twin J pickups and a 3 way selector switch for each pickup. The tones I can get are great. Combined with my Streamliner 900 going through a Mesa 215 cab, I can get p-bassy, jazz bass, MM bass sounds quite comfortably. Love it!

There are some intros and endings we simplify or remove entirely because they might rely on a piano riff or something studio trickery but none of the shenanigans you mention in the op. That does seem quite odd and energy that could be spent on learning whole new songs.

could anyone share the stock capacitor and potentiometer values on the bbp35 please?

I dig it - it looks like it's dancing!! I can also appreciate the mad skill that went into building it - I mean look at the way the neck starts to deviate around the 15th fret, then the pocket joins the body at an angle.. nuts I'm trying to imagine the genre of music most appropriate for this bass..

Right. I work with our local Foodbank and Community Grocery (pay a few quid for a week's worth of food and toiletries etc). First of all, if folk are wandering past free fruit, it's about dignity, not a preference for haribo. A lot of people feel ashamed to take free help, especially publicly. This is why the Community Grocery model has worked really well, alongside Foodbanks, as people have the dignity of paying a small amount. Almost all of the food and supplies for the Community Grocery is donated by supermarkets. Supermarkets also sponsor and make regular large donations of food to Foodbanks, which also saves a lot of food going to waste. They leave baskets out at their stores to make it easier for you to donate food too, if you'd like to. I don't understand why anyone would be angry about that. Frankly this is a problem that shouldn't exist. More people need and use these services then you would think, or stereotype. On the wider issue of charity events, it's not a gig for you, it's a fundraiser. That's the whole point. Don't expect to be paid, but donate your time if you support their cause. Or don't. It's pretty simple.

I've known Brian for decades and remember seeing these in his workshop when he used to build them. A lot of thought went into the design and build of these in order from them to play well and actually intonate. He built other wacky designs too, including a Moon guitar/bass. Rob

Thanks for the comments. I'll have a think what to do. I could easily add an external bottom plate onto the speakers for stand mounting purposes. It would be external rather than internal. I've a number of decent stands I could use for testing other than the Quickset to see. I could strap the current one down to test it out with zero changes. Might do that next weekend and see. If I like it I'd put a couple of big t-nuts in the base of the speaker to allow a plate to be bolted in just in case. I wouldn't do an internal adapter as it would change the internal volumetric measurements of the cab. No idea how much would make a difference but not wanting to trash a cab to find out.