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32” scale P bass, with added J pickup. Passive VBT. Lightweight slab body (not really bothered what wood, so let’s say alder or swamp ash) with black nitro finish, roasted maple neck and ‘board, satin finish. Hipshot, lightweight lollipop tuners and quick release bridge.

I find that it’s not that they’re awful (YMMV) but that they fail to convey the irony and venom of the original.

I found it! It’s quite old and has some of my own notes on it that I made when I was learning it, way back when. These notes helped me for the timing and other things, but may mean nothing to you, for which I apologise. Hopefully, you’ll find something in this that helps.

I definitely had this once upon a time, whether it survived the house move is unknown at the moment. I’ll have a search later. 🤞

First thing I did was replace the volume pot with a blend control.

I got a bit of stick on the FB Mustang owners group for posting this, although it may not say Fender or Squier on the headstock (neither do Nash or whoever else makes a ‘Stangalike), but no one can deny its inspiration and most folk were supportive with their likes. Therefore, here’s my recently acquired Harley Benton Mustang type. It’s really not bad at all and not just for the money. The neck and pickups aren’t as good as the JMJ and I prefer the slab body of that bass, but the upper access is something FMIC could take a lead from.

Fresh roundwounds and judicious use of the tone control, sorted.

I fancy that I could manage this, in fact I may have already done some time back unwittingly. If I were to take it on, I would choose my JMJ Mustang. When I first bought it, during lockdown 2.0, I was in temporary accommodation and had only taken a five string, fretless with me, when I moved in (this was a mistake it turned out, but as primarily a fretless player, I thought it was the right move. I had no idea my attitude to fretless was about to change). I ordered the Mustang and played it so much, I gave myself tendinitis. I think I probably just played it for 3 months as I wasn’t reunited with my other basses for 4 months after receiving the JMJ. Hmm, food for thought.

Yes, rehearsal spaces are still a thing and, with a few notable exceptions, are still fairly crap. Musty old rooms, with cheap backline and PA.

Sounds like phase cancellation, just like on a lot of dual pickup, passive basses (I won’t say all, as I’ve not played them all).

^^^ Very much this.

The downstairs section at HMV was short lived, sadly. However, I did see Marcus Miller do a clinic of sorts there. Guitar Guitar’s Epsom branch is the biggest guitar showroom in the UK. I visited the Camden branch pre refurb and it didn’t seem that big. However, I can’t think of a bigger store in Greater London, so perhaps their claim is correct, but not by much I’d guess.

Denmark St and the environs became a tourist trap and parody of what it once was and this not recently, the signs were there 25+ years ago. Fortunately, the likes of GG, The Gallery and others have made this change more than palatable.

Went to see this on its release too. I was not an LZ fan at the time, it was more just something to do after work. It was alright, I was not moved and found it overindulgent. The song called Stairway something or other was OK though and I bought LZ 4 on the strength of that. No more that 8 weeks later, I had the entire catalogue that was available at that time and I’m still a fan today, with Physical Graffiti being my favourite. Still think the movie is long and not their best output.

Nantucket Sleighride - Mountain

In short, yes. Doesn’t make it right though. Very much a case of, just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

The Brune Street location was pretty spectacular, wall to wall basses downstairs and up the walls to the Acoustic Centre, upstairs. They also had offices opposite, which became the outlet once the shop was closed. It then moved the south side of London Bridge, near Guy’s Hospital. Now they’re situated in Bagshot.

I use an M87 as I wanted to add a little punch, without, as has been said above, colouring my signal to any significant degree. It’s also not horribly expensive.

I miss bad hair ☹️. However, I do have quite the collection of hats to keep my bonce warm/protected from the sun, although I don’t tend to wear them on stage any more.

There is a similar thread, although primarily for BCers in hats:

At least.

The labels were, as you’ve guessed, levels of quality, based on country of manufacturer. I tried an FK many, many years ago (can’t remember what level or model, maybe a Perception) and I remember it being somewhat clunky and workmanlike, not adding anything to what was available from the mainstream producers. Things may have changed of course. A quick look at the website reveals that they are very, very guitar centric, with just a nod to the low end community.