Jean-Luc Pickguard

the Cobalt flats on the thunderbirds are surprisingly bright for flats, but my JMJ Mustangs are my main gigging basses currently. The band plays mostly 60s covers such as the who, small faces, kinks etc. I tend to dial in some grit to give the tone a bit of an added edge.

I have various favourite sets for different basses, arrived at after trying quite a few different sets. Mustangs — D'addario ECB81M Chromes Precisions — Thomastik Infeld JF344 Flatwounds Hohner B2A — A 20+ year old set of double ball end Picato flats which will probably last longer than me. Epiphone Vintage Pro Thunderbirds — Ernie Ball PO2815 Cobalt Flatwounds Squier Bass IV — LaBella Deep Talkin' Bass VI Flatwounds Danelectro Longhorn — LaBella Danelecto Deep Talkin' Flatwounds Kala U-Bass — Galli Flatwounds (Chrome steel wrapped around a nylon core) Guild Starfire II — Status hotwire medium scale flatwounds (no longer available but I have a spare set)

Breaking Glass — Bowie

Comfortably Numb — Pink Floyd

Underpants — John Foxx

Hole in my Shoe — Traffic

Cross Yourself — Emmylou Harris

Want a Danish — Van Morrison

Politicians In My Eyes — Death

Three button hand me down — The Faces

Dancing Fool — Frank Zappa

Jupiter Hollow — The Band

I've recently upgraded from a pedaltrain with a caline power thing to a Harley benton spaceship power 50C board which has all the psu gubbins incorporated into it and is an absolute marvel. In addition to umpteen outputs for powering pedals, there's also a USB socket on the back for charging/powering phones/tablets.

I often discuss music with the missus — especially in the car when she asks me to change whatever album I've put on.

Fiddle About - The Who

Do we get to choose which cookies we are sent? If so I prefer the ones with chunky chocolate chips.

Cheeky bu99er's listed it again https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325825655879?hash=item4bdcb8f447:g:6dYAAOSw9O9lCf3N

Back Road Into Town — Willie Hightower

Susie Queue — Creedence Clearwater Revival

If the slugs are only humming when you're not touching the strings or bridge, this means that bridge ground wire is okay.

I recently bought a new Classic Vibe Mustang guitar, and noticed that I could often hear a hum through the amp whenever I wasn't touching the strings or bridge. The first thing I do after buying a Squier or other inexpensive bass/guitar is replace the born-to-fail jack socket with a decent one so I opened it up and soldered in a Pure Tone socket. While I was in there I also protected the control cavity from slug infestation by lining it with 25mm self-adhesive copper anti-slug tape from amazon. After doing these two jobs, the hum was now totally gone, so I deduced from this that the previously heard noise was probably from slugs in the control cavity humming along with the music.

Is there ever a valid reason to remove a serial number from a bass? I doubt it— The only reasons I can think of to do so are both dishonest: 1— to mask that the bass has been stolen, or 2 — To deceive a buyer into believing it is a different model from what it actually is. This is a prime example of the latter. You could attach the swing tag to a piece of cheese, but it won't turn it into a roadworn Fender bass.

Up The Wooden Hills To Bedfordshire — The Small Faces