Maude

Sister Ray - Velvet Underground

The Banana Splits - The Dickies

Miserable sod alert! Most specialist guitar polishes are a way of squeezing a teeny bit of standard polish used in the automotive or furniture trades into little containers and charging double the price. Still it gives advertising people an outlet to save them getting constipated with their shite. 🙂

Ha ha, that's the closest I've got to steels as well. I also have a pack of Hi Beams in the cupboard waiting.

While the lack of gigs is obviously not good, the rest of your post I look at in a positive light. To have instruments as assets is far preferable to having that money in the bank. Both can be exchanged for necessary goods if the situation arises, but instruments are far more fulfilling until that day comes, and fingers crossed it won't. 🙂

Greetings From Shitsville - The Wildhearts

Hanging Around - The Stranglers

Self Control - Laura All-branigan

I'm wrong, it must be a righty due to the length of the top horn, but the controls and jack must have been relocated. Or it was built from scratch for him. Intriguing.

I've just noticed the black bass is a lefty, converted to a righty to get the controls and jack out of the way but keep the E string at the top. He hasn't just stumbled on this way of playing.

She's Lost Control - Joy Division

That is quite the most bizarre way I've seen a bass played, and just looks plain wrong. But it sounds great and doesn't appear to be holding him back so crack on I say. I wonder what led to him adopting that style though.

Did you buy the Talman new? The Talman sounds just like a Precision using the P pickup so shouldn't sound tinny compared to a Jazz. I bought a new one and put GHS Boomer piccolo strings on and put the strings that came on the Talman onto my crappy old Kay that I restored. The Kay has about the most clear, bell like sustain of any bass I've owned and doesn't lack bottom end with those strings so it shouldn't be them, if they're the originals. That aside I've got D'addario short scale half rounds on my Danelectro Longhorn and it sounds and feels great. Plenty of bottom end but enough bite in the top end. I have the long scale version on my Rick and they sound amazingly similar.

Devil Woman - Sir Clifford of Richardsville

Does Alex Horne count? More of a frontman to The Horne Section than an actual musician but the unit as a whole is very good. I'm not sure about 'decent musical output' though. I used to quite like Richard Digance back in the day, he has comedic and serious acoustic folky output.

Burning Love - Elvis

Sowing The Seeds Of Love - Tears For Fears

I reckon "I've got a pocket full of pretty green", would mean something very different to todays youth.

Royale with cheese. What'd they call a Big Mac?

I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but if it's a technique that produces a usable sound that you like then crack on. John Entwistle of The Who had a technique where he did what I think you're doing. His fingers were kind of in line with the strings and he tapped with his fingertips to produce his heavy clanking tone, like a typewriter.

True, but maybe there should be. 😉

McDonald's probably has a trademark on 'Quarter Pounder' so they changed to 'Quarter Pound'. Quite what a pound has to do with it anyway I don't know, surely they should be 'Quarter Inchers'. That's not quite so macho sounding though I suppose.

Mr. Pink Eyes - The Cure

Falling To Pieces - Faith No More

No, burger off! 😄