Jean-Luc Pickguard

This is the cap I wear most days from my online emporium bassthing.uk

In the past I have, but never needed to in the current band.

Here's my entry, "How The ✽✽✽✽ Did My Bike Get Up There?" This is the radio TikTok-friendly beeped version. There is also an uncensored version, which proves that I am neither big nor clever. That version cannot be embedded as I have set an age restriction on it per YouTube's rules. You can hear the uncensored version in all of its sweary glory on YouTube at the following link if you are logged into YouTube and don't mind a bit of gratuitous profanity → Unbeeped version for 18+ The stacked humbucking P90 of my Pelham blue Harley Benton DC Jnr FAT fuzzes up nicely with my Boss FZ-1W waza craft fuzz pedal. After trying a few things to get a convincing vox continental organ sound, I eventually redid the organ using logic's built-in vintage B3 organ instrument. The beep which replaces all umpteen instances of profanity is basically a 1khz sine wave, and the bicycle bell is a sample of a bicycle bell. After you have listened to my track, please be sure to rewind it back to the beginning so it is ready for the next person

I had a pair of knurled-shaft pots on a bass where I wanted to fit knobs made for solid shaft pots. To make it more difficult one of the sticky-out halves on one of the pot shafts had broken off. My solution to this was to mix up a small amount of milliput epoxy putty and use it to build up the pot shafts. It was very easy (and satisfying) to get the resultant diameter to match that of a solid shaft pot just by shaping it with my fingers, checking with a dial caliper gauge as well as eyeballing it and offering up one of the knobs to check the fit. I left it overnight and fitted the knobs the next day where they went on straight without issue.

Did you know that the recording artist and former star of Emmerdale, Yungblud aka Dominic Harrison is the son of Justin Harrison of the 'Music Ground' Denmark Street Harrisons? I didn't until I saw the Trogly video documenting his new signature Epiphone SG Jnr. Justin Harrison, along with his late father Rick is probably best known for all sorts of dodgy shenannigans http://www.davidjpym.com/page459.html including selling stolen guitars and fake amps.

Good Sweet Loving — Roy Brown

96 Teats — ? And The Mysterians

No Milk Today — Herman's Hermits

Almost Cut My Hair — Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Fender UK are nice like that — I bought a secondhand vintera mustang guitar a while ago which was missing its wiggle stick, and there didn't seem to be a way to order a correctly sized one as a spare part. One email later they sent me one at no cost.

No Spitting On The Bus — Steve Gibbons Band

Coming Into Focus — John Foxx & Harold Budd

Bowie released so much there must be a few stinkers in there, but I can't think of any except for some of the early Laughing Gnome era stuff.

Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground — The White Stripes

Over The Clouds — Izabella Khalo

Me Myself I —Joan Armatrading

One Shoe Lost — Pure Retribution

(In Space No One Can Hear You) Scream — The 5.6.7.8's

Nick The Stripper — Birthday Party

Beginning and Ending — Max Richter

Spaceship — Billion Dollar Inc

Sherlock Holmes — The Dirtbombs

Patches — Clarence Carter

Choice Of Colors — The Impressions

The Soapmakers — Clutch