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Nice one! Welcome to basschat - we're a nice bunch mostly. Bass is a great instrument to play live I find.

Not a bizarre request in itself, but we played at a wedding anniversary and agreed that the husband, who played guitar, could get up and play a song of his choice with us - Johnny B Goode in A, he told us. So I gave him a spare guitar and we played the song, tho there was definitely some background noise from somewhere. Turns out he'd played the entire song just mashing away on an A chord.

My band at the time was a five-piece of 30-40something blokes, playing rock/pop/70s-00s stuff. One woman asked if we could play any Girls Aloud. FFS.

Saxophone. My in-laws had one which they loaned to me - me thinking it would be another string to my bow etc. It was impossible - there was nothing familiar about how you play it, and it was deafeningly loud which meant i hardly wanted to blow it anyway. So it went back to them at next visit unfortunately. Top marks to anyone who can make it sing - it completely eluded me.

I had a few pints and a chat with him once after a comedy gig in Leicester a few years ago, and he was really good company - witty, knowledgeable and full of amusing stories.

Hello Looks like i'm going to have to replace a bridge on a Yamaha BB604 - has anyone done this already, and what bridge fitted well? It's a sort of fairly high-mass gold bit of metal, but the holes are in a different place to my BBOT Fender spare i was using to measure it. Its the same bridge as on a RBX760A, but as both the BB and the RBX are discontinued, Yamaha says they can't provide me with a spare. It's just the base plate i need - the saddles are fine. Any ideas? Is there a Yamaha experts/owners group or something? I've tried ebay and the usual parts/spares places online but nowt. Bummer.

Aside from novelty songs which aren't really meant to be 'good' my pet hate of a song is Robbie Williams 'Candy'. It's utter tripe.

I love Francis Dunnery's solo stuff - Tall Blond Helicopter and Let's Go Do What Happens were both real game changers for me musically, and helped me make sense of quite a difficult period in my life. Never seen him live tho, which is a real shame. Enjoy the gig!

We briefly did Bowie's "Oh You Pretty Things" and it was a total dance floor emptier. People just looked slightly panicked and confused when we started playing it. We dropped it after about two gigs...

Iron Maiden - Live After Death Scorpions - Worldwide Live Kiss - Alive 2 Three of the first albums that got me into playing music. I have listened to each of them hundreds of times, and know every single note, every bit of banter etc.

Jimi Hendrix "All Along the Watchtower" does it for me - its one of the most atmospheric sounding recordings ever. Mark Knopfler's "Sailing to Philadelphia" is up there for spine-tingling, tasteful, sparse playing. On the other end of the scale, Queen's "The Show Must Go On" gives me shivers - such a great vocal performance, especially knowing he's dying.

I had an old Volvo 940 estate for a long time - huge amount of room in the back with the back seats folded down. I've got a settee and a massive fridge freezer in there before now! It didn't have the same height as people movers do, but you did get a huge loading bay boot right up to the back of the driver's seat if required. Huge space, and lovely car too.

Earlier this year I sold the P bass which had been my main bass for the last 10 years, and which had come with me to gigs in Ireland, Poland and across the UK. I was gutted and to make matters worse it was on the shop website for a few weeks afterwards tormenting me, until someone bought it. Shame but that's life sometimes.

Yup i'll be there too - count me in. In terms of gear - probably the Lull PJ4, the old Precision, LM3 and Schroeder cab. I'll remember to contribute something to the raffle this time too!