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The 80s are my favourite era for music. The level of the musicianship is certainly higher than the decade that followed.

Leaving on a jet plane - John Denver

Teen Town - Weather Report

Ram goat liver - Pluto Shervington

There are loads of songs which have had the reggae treatment and people don't know the original. UB40 have made a living from it.

IMO you could do much worse than a Bass Collection Nanyo. You can still find them for silly money (around £100) though this is getting harder now that the secret isn't as closely guarded . Look for a 310/ 320 with pj pups. Lovely fast necks and around 8lbs.

Big 7 - Judge Dread

I prefer the A frame design. I have a compact Hercules which fits in a bag but I don't trust it as much.

Sacrilege!! This would mean we would not have a need for a fretless bass...what am I supposed to do with the space and money??? Oh, OK...I could buy another bass I suppose..

I have tapewounds on several basses. First used them on my Silk bass, they feel sooo good to play with great tone. I can't play Steel strings anymore. I find the Warwick or Fender tapewounds to be great vfm - the Warwicks are available as 40 and 45 too, fattest string in a 4 string pack is 100/ 110 - this means you can order a 115 or 125 B string keeping the set as light as a Steel set.

@ChWillie...Nice dog.

Catchafire - Bob Marley &

Blue Moon - The Marcels

I recently paid £57 for a set of tapewounds. No 5 string sets available at the time so had to go for a 4 string plus a single. The 4 string set were £43 and a single 5th string was £8 - then there was the P&P. Now available on Amazon and eBay for around £50 Thomann are the cheapest site but are charging £19 delivery Earlier this year I think I paid £39 to my door. When I could buy them from Status Graphite they were soo cheap that it was like buying steels from a shop. Ah, those were the days...and reminiscing was so much better then too.

Mine is arthritis - hands and elbows mostly - just have to play in moderation.

Club Tropicana - me cousin George and some other fella...

One in ten - UB40

I beg your pardon (I didn't promise you a rose garden) - Lynn Anderson

Whole lot of love - LZ

I credit @pedwith the "invention" of finger puppet tuners. If anybody else takes credit we should support our leader in any court action he might choose to take.

https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/198-recommended-amp-techs/

Ramps are like those finger puppet things that @ped has on his tuners...seem like a good idea for a while but then you realise that they're superfluous. Remember eye lashes on little cars?

I get confused on this thread. Sometimes it feels like not everybody knows the rules on this thread. From the opening post : Post a song title that relates / makes sense from the immediately previous one. Artists name in brackets. I'll start the ball rolling. if it kills me (therapy?)