tegs07

The Vintera range is pretty close and far cheaper.

Teach your children -CSN&Y

If people are experiencing a weak G issue the pickup poles can be raised or lowered to compensate. Just remove the pickup raise the G pole, lower the others, replace pickup and it should balance out fine.

Dead heroes - anti nowhere league

Funeral party - The Cure

Forever and ever - Demis Rousos

Stray cat strut - stray cats

Kind of. In all it’s malformed glory.

Pie Jesu - Andrew Lloyd Weber. A homage to biblical meat and veg wrapped in pastry I believe.

I can’t speak for the OP but I wouldn’t describe myself as a musician. I’m just a ham fisted bodger that noodles around on the bass. They are frequently in bits as much as in a playable state. I would say music did have a big impact on my life. Any teenager with pretty much zero interest in football and the usual blokes banter should get into a band and or get a bike/skateboard. It will definitely open up new possibilities and IMO a greater range of possibilities.

I think they are hand made instruments and use some pretty expensive material (carbon fibre etc). As they are fairly complex in their design I doubt if they could even be mass produced. There’s a reason that bolt on neck, easy to route shapes became ubiquitous. They are cheap to make!

Suspect device - SLF

Truck driver divorce - Frank Zappa

Of lilies and remains - Bauhaus

Life - Dr John

N.I.B - Sabbath

Road Trippin’ - RHCP

Apparently this is a Japanese make called a Fandel which is new to me:

I call lt a night- Martin Harley band

I don’t know. What makes any mass produced instrument, car or phone special or interesting? The quality of instruments coming out of Indonesia, Korea or Mexico these days is generally excellent. Take any £500 bass from say the Cort factory and give it a decent set up and it it will most likely be worthy of praise no matter what is on the headstock. Spent a couple of hundred more and the materials will be better making it even nicer to use and listen to. The shape is down to preference. Some go for a classic look, some for novelty some for something more radical. That’s down to personal taste.

Armageddon days (are here again) - The The

Dirty Harry - Gorillaz

I really need to watch that again. I think his still had the head attached?

Dirty old town - The Pogues

Not a bass but taking the taxidermy a step too far. A guitar actually made from (not by) a relative.