Jean-Luc Pickguard

Hospital — Jesca Hoop

Three Time Loser — Wilson Pickett

Benylin & The Jets — Elton John

Essex Machine — James Brown

I had some lovely Strawberry Conserve from Lidl on a Croissant this morning.

Baby, Don't You Tear My Clothes — Little Richard

I upgraded my main board to a spaceship power 50C which has the power pack built in and is powered via a kettle style power lead. I really like it and don't think there's anything similar on the market that touches it for the cost.

I've used their guitar strings in custom guages when I had a tenor guitar and tenor banjo which I set up in chicago tuning. I'd only be able to try their bass strings if they ever made stainless steel flats in short & medium scale though.

Speak To Me — Pink Floyd

Around My Neck — Finneas

Firebirds — Clutch

The Train Runs Over The Camel But It Is Derailed By The Gnat — The Flaming Lips

No Spitting On The Bus — Steve Gibbons Band

I don’t think that’ll help as I specifically wanted to fit the hipshot lollipop tuners. The wilkinsons currently fitted are as good a second choice as anything else.

My competition orange squier classic vibe mustang is a lovely bass. It had some non-original crappy tuners on it when I bought it so I put on a set of nickel wilkinson tuners from a vintage pro thunderbird (after fitting gotoh GB640 res-o-lites to the thunderbird) which are the same design & footprint as the original squier tuners would have been, but of slightly heavier construction. The previous owner had also put in a pickup from a vintera mustang and I made a new loom with cts pots, switchcraft socket etc, and fitted a thumbrest. The wilkinsons work really well but I really like the hipshot lollipops on my JMJs so I have been keeping an eye out for some, and managed to get my hands on a set today. I took off the wilkinsons and replaced the ferrules, but when I laid out the hipshots on the headstock, the plates overlap by about 1mm or so. I don't want to bodge it by filing the tuner plates, so I guess I'll have to learn to love the wilkinsons.

If Fender issued the JMJ Mustang in another colour, such as shell pink, it is practically guaranteed that I won't be able to resist ordering one.

I'm thinking of playing 'asteroid' as the call up music for sets 2 & 3. Its only 18 seconds long so the bu99ers had better not wander off too far.

Part of the idea of trying this is it will send an easily recognisable signal to a few of the band members who tend to go missing once their gear is in place. It'll let them know the pair of us responsible for setting up the PA have everything ready and we're about to start so they are to extract themselves from wherever they are currently located — ie to save us having to go looking for them.

Who uses pre-recorded walk-on music at gigs? What do you use? If you do more than one set do you play anything specific for the second/third set walk-ons? The band I'm in plays 60's & 70s covers, and we're thinking of coming on to the theme from 'The man from U.N.C.L.E.' or something similarly cheesy for our next pub gig in a few weeks.

Is it this one? https://www.thomann.de/gb/km_17515_guardian_transluzent.htm If so, it says it is 'not suitable for Guitars With Pyroxylin Varnish'. Googling 'Pyroxylin Varnish' suggests that it is a poncy way of saying nitrocelluose lacquer, so I'm confused

That's an idea, but if I try it I'd probably use brand new 100% cotton socks

There is a difference between mojo and damage

Shadow On The Sun — Audioslave

Hawaiian (Pizza) War Chant — Spike Jones

That sounds interesting. Are you able to post a link to the stuff you used?