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This Pretty Face - Amy Macdonald

You Talk Too Much - Sultans Of Ping

An absolutely pointless instrument. If it were four sided however, with a mandolin and banjo in addition to the guitar and bass, and a bongo skin stretched over the bottom end... Well where do I sign up?

Summer Fun - The Baccarudas

Shaft - Isaac Hayes

Stone Cold Bush - RHCP

I Walk The Line - Spare change for the condom machine.

If anyone's missing the Talkbass vibe you could always go on the Rick Resource and show them a picture of a faker. 😄

What's Talkbass? 😉

Caribbean Queen - Billy Ocean

We were out for a walk yesterday and as we walked back into the village there was someone in a shed giving a drum kit some stick. Not very musical and sounded more like they were just seeing what sound each drum and cymbal made over and over. But they were in a shed hitting a drumkit, and that's what counts. 🙂

Speak for yourself! That's a highly presumptuous picture stereotyping bass players. I don't even like cats!

Smokestack Lightnin' - Howlin' Wolf

Don't use 'Grand Designs' analogies for gawd sake. You'll be six months pregnant before the next ad break.

At The Hop - Danny and the Juniors

Watch the video. The answer will amaze you!!!

'Fraid not. It's a never selling bass as it's just far better than the prices they command. I was just being annoying. 🙄😄

That looks lovely, you gotta love f holes. I picked up a similar looking thing last year made by melody, archtop, f holes, but wierdly with an ovation style headstock and composite back. I've also yet to find a bad Yamaha instrument. PSST, I've still got a tabacco burst BEX4. 😉

Lookin' Out My Back Door - CCR

Mirror In The Bathroom - The Beat

Gary Gilmore's Eyes - The Adverts

I would say whatever you do, don't force it. There's not a great deal of wood above the string in that bridge. With the ball end compressing the wood in the way it's design to, the bridge is very strong. But with too fat a string trying to expand the hole outwards it's liable to split the bridge, especially if the width of the string tapers, as the string tension will pull the string ever further into the hole putting a lot of pressure in a direction that the bridge isn't designed to handle.

Open Up - Leftfield & Lydon

A Madness tribute must be a great gig to play. If you've got a multi-effect pedal, find a nice nasally distortion and put the biggest reverb you can find on it and crank it up, it's great for the ships horn at the start of Nightboat To Cairo. 🙂👍

This has always been a (not so) guilty pleasure of mine.