Jean-Luc Pickguard

I have three JMJs, but the bass sitting on a stand next to me at the moment is a Player (not the II version though) PJ mustang bass in Sienna sunburst with maple fingerboard. This bass is a lot of fun to play and offers a bit more tonal variety than the JMJs. I did do a fair amount of customisation to the PJ when I bought the bass secondhand at a very good price. This included shielding with adhesive copper tape and building a new loom with CTS pots, puretone socket, switchcraft switch and orangedrop capacitor. I also put on Fender hi mass bridge, hipshot HB10 lollipop tuners, and a fender thumbrest in the same position as on my JMJs. I also put ion a set of short scale Ernie Ball cobalt flatwounds. The pickups sound good so I didn't consider changing them for something else. The only changes I made to my JMJs was to apply copper shielding and put on some medium scale D'addario chromes. Having the spaghetti logo on the player II rather than a 70s-looking logo on my original player looks wrong to me, but I tend to get irked by inconsequential things like that. I don't know if Fender has improved how they wire up the player II mustang bass, but the original player mustang has a circuit that reduces the volume when rolling off the tone unless the volume is fully open. I used an alternative circuit when I rewired mine to prevent this from occurring. You can read about my adventures in rewiring here:

I hardly touched a bass for the entirety of the 90s, having got into using a computer (first the Yamaha CX5M, then the Atari STE) and synthesisers / drum machines etc to make music. When I decided to get back into playing bass I ditched using a plecky and forced myself to get good at playing fingerstyle which I was unable to do well before.

Boomerang — Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band

Apparently Nothin’ — Young Disciples

The video is utter b0llocks. I've removed & refitted necks many many times and this has never been a problem. Opening up the holes in the body might run the risk of the neck shifting in the pocket - especially on a 70s Fender with an overgenerous pocket.

Eclectic Electric — Primus

If It Don't Fit, Don't Force It — Barrelhouse Annie

shitesnake

Take Thot

Gunk n Roses

Just received my order. It appears to have come from Sweden rather than Ohio and there were not charges to pay. The tools look to be top quality and it only took eight days from ordering to delivery.

Mist — Roger Eno

It's the same workshop with the original workbench where Leo worked when it was the original Fender factory, so a lot of classic Fender design work was originated there too.

It will be interesting to see whether Fender keeps Leo's workspace intact — or if his tools etc went in the skip, and whether they put the fullerton factory up for sale, keep it as a factory, or turn it into as museum or other public venue.

Lightning Man — Nitzer Ebb

You should be able to pick up a secondhand Fender PJ Player mustang for £500.

Maybe take away the loopholes that enable billionaires to hoard their wealth whilst paying ignorant flagsh@ggers to spread the idea that immigrants are to blame for all of the problems they themselves have caused, but don't want to help solve.

Bass Strings — Country Joe & The Fish

Everyday I Write The Book — Elvis Costello

Looney On The Bus — Roy Harper

A fret rocker doesn't do the same job as a fret kisser. They look similar, however the fret kisser has a recessed diamond file in the centre of each edge.

Okay - I choose the bass, which is "the best" due to all of the new components I used to rebuild it into a new bass.

Best purchases were the Fender Precision to Jazz conversion neck, EB cobalt flatwounds, Hipshot lollipop tuners, ultra heavy knurled callaghan knobs, and EMG GZR P Pickup I used to transform my long-neglected unlined fretless bitza Precision into my favourite long scale bass to play. Worst buy was probably the HX FX pedal I bought several months ago, which I'm sure is an excellent piece of kit, but I've realised I don't really need it and haven't got around to actually trying to use it.

It has been confirmed on Phillip McKnight’s podcast that FMIC (Fender) has bought G&L.