Maude

I've got a Session Cake but it's a far bigger faff to use compared to the NUX. Session Cake, phone, headphones and bass all connected with leads compared to headphones essentially plugged straight into the bass. You can get up and walk around with nothing extra to carry. It's the simplest way to practice I've found short of buying the Boss Waza, which is significantly more expensive. Being USB rechargeable is another bonus over the Session Cake.

@rushbo, 3M Refix Tape is a very thin double sided tape, often known as glue on a roll as it's once the backing is removed it's pretty much just a film of adhesive. It's about a centimeter wide and plenty strong enough to hold a pickguard with a two or three short strips. Should be easily and safely removed from poly with acetone, lighter fluid or similar. It comes in a box of four 10m rolls and is pretty expensive so PM your address and I'll pop a few strips (or the end of a roll if I've got one) in the post for you. 🙂👍

Lick My Love Pump - Nigel Tufnel

Just set up some presets using the app and then you don't need it. You can have seven presets and scroll through them using the main button on the Mighty plug, the button lights up a different colour for each preset. Bluetooth your phone to it and balance the bass volume (on the Mighty Plug) against your phone volume (on your phone) and away you go. As said above you need wired headphones but I bought a short lead so it doesn't trail around, just long enough to reach from bass to headphones with a little slack so it doesn't get pulled.

Stupid Kid - Sultans of Ping

I picked up an old Encore P in a charity shop last year. Gave it a good clean and polish, did a fair bit of fret work (levelled, reshaped, polished) and rounded over the fretboard edges, put a Tonestyler pickup in and it is honestly one of my favourite playing basses, it just feels so nice to play and sounds great. £50 for the bass and £25 for the pickup. The mid nineties ones just have Encore on the headstock, these and older I feel are the better ones, the newer ones have Encore Blaster on the headstock. As with most basses there are good and bad from any era, a place we use for rehearsals has one like mine but it's terrible, it could probably be made to feel nicer but visually it doesn't do it for me. I lucked out and got some really nicely grained wood on the body and neck.

The Lunatics (have taken over the asylum) - Fun Boy Three

Tina Turner's version of Proud Mary. I'll quite happily listen to the original by CCR, but there's just something about Tina Turner's version I dispise. Compounded by the way any woman has to do that horrible, bent over, arm pumpy shuffle thing whenever it comes on in a pub.

Ballad of J. J. Decay - Anti Nowhere League

Everything Starts With An E - E Zee Posee

What a lovely pair.

What connections are we talking about? I've done plenty of buying but never really seen any car analogies, I don't think.

Sun Arise - Rol... ah, this is awkward. 😬

Sun Arise - Rol... ah, this is awkward. 😬

Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf

Vision Thing - Sisters of Mercy

My Baby is a Headf**k - The Wildhearts

Yeast Easy Riser - Julian Cope

I use it before him.

@Bassassin is your man. Shaftesbury were a brand name for the Rose Morris shop in Shaftesbury Avenue, I think they were made in the Matsumoku factory. I'd assume this is a later model having a hi-gain neck pickup and non wavy grover style tuners, but I could be wrong. I have an Aria (Matsumoku) with a toaster neck pickup and wavy grover style tuners which is early 70s. One way to identify a Matsumoku build is that there will be a little indent in the pickguard by each volume/tone control, if that's the original pickguard, which it does look like as they're usual slightly translucent. Lovely grain in the wood.

Gotta be walnut.

Train in Vain - The Clash

Has Mark D. Philips' apprentice graduated?