Jean-Luc Pickguard

Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens — Louis Jordan

Move over Darjeeling — Doris Day

When I was first getting into flatwounds I ordered three sets of Rotosound jazz flats. Tried one set - hated the tension and the gap between the windings varied for each string making each one feel totally different. I've bought many pedals to try out with my rig and then flipped them when they weren't quite what I'd hoped for, but I imagine a lot of us probably do that and if you buy secondhand you don't lose any value. The most immediate case of buyers remorse I had was when I wanted a hard case for a mustang bass, but for the same price the Fender cases were being sold at, I could order a custom-made heavy duty aluminium flight case, so I foolishly thought that would be a reasonable option and ordered one. When it arrived it was beautifully made and was well up to the job it was designed for, but I immediately knew it was far too big and heavy for my needs and would be totally impractical to use.

Foul Owl On The Prowl — The Little Willies

Be Stiff — Devo

Ball and Chain — The Who

I'm Gonna Love You Too — The Hullaballoos

The Biggest Lie — Elliot Smith

It Snot Unusual — Tom Jones

No Spitting On The Bus — Steve Gibbons Band

Give Me Back My Wig — Hound Dog Taylor and The House Rockers

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

Bristol Stomp — The Late Show

Albatross — Fleetwood Mac

Scream Thy Last Scream, Old Woman With A Casket — Pink Floyd

My JMJs (2 blue & 1 black) don't have the weird pattern on the upper horn like on the pic, so no need to worry about that. The classic vibe mustang is a great bass — now I have set up my competition orange one properly, it's a lot closer to my vintera than I expected it would be, and you don't have to take the neck off to tweak the truss rod.

Get Up Jake — The Band

Bury a Friend — Billie Eilish

Agent Double O Soul — Edwin Starr

The G string looks like its almost hanging off the edge of the fingerboard. No wonder there are no pictures of him playing it. I bet he couldn't get rid of it quick enough.

Bruce Foxton got rid of it though — so if its not good enough for him, its certainly not good enough for me.

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