Shaggy

Tobacco Road - The Nashville Teens (Doh - beaten to it again: ignore post)

It’s a kind of magic - Queen

Decline of the West - British Electric Foundation

No, but I did try it through the sub-octave thingy in my Ashdown bass amp to see if I could make it sound like a bass, and it sounded.......terrible However, it’s really really nice with a touch of chorus and/or reverb.

Re oak as a “tonewood”, a couple of pics of my custom electric mandolin which is made entirely from oak, including the neck (with a strengthening aluminium central spine instead of a truss truss). Heavy, but then - it’s only a mandolin! You’ll recognise the pickups, and brass knobs have been temporarily nicked to go one of my basses......

Spinning the wheel - @TheGreek ‘s cousin George

Rat race - The Specials

Fear (of the unknown) - Siouxsie & the Banshees

All quiet on the Western front - Elton John

EHX Q-tron + is what I use Used to have an original ‘70’s Mu-tron, but the above covers what it did. Have to say that although the Line 6 Pod XT is pretty old hat these days, it had a nice envelope filter on it (as well as a whole lot more), and can be had cheap.

The temple of the king - Rainbow

Semi-detached suburban Mr.James - Manfred Mann (slightly tentative link to 1970’s “The Good Life” sit-com......)

Annie, I’m not your Daddy - Kid Creole & The Coconuts

In the wee small hours of the morning - Frank Sinatra

Treasure - Bruno Mars

Bloodstream - Ed Sheeran

Paper sun - Traffic

Apart from the covers those albums were always a massive disappointment, as the songs were re-recordings by some utterly naff sesssion band (so as not to pay royalties, I assume)

Alas no - most of my LP's were acquired second hand. I still have this one, and a few others of reasonable interest I've hung onto: Cream - "Disraeli gears" on the Reaction label (early release), Penetration - "Moving targets" on luminous glow-in-the-dark vinyl, The Fool - "The Fool", and a load of early punk stuff.

Ashamed to admit......

First album I ever bought with my pocket money..... OP - for purely live albums, it would probably be Slade Alive

Rockin berries Heavy metal kids

(I like) Trucking - Not the Nine o’clock News

Over my shoulder - Mike & the Mechanics

No, pickups don't function like microphones; they create an electrical signal in the pickup windings caused by the steel strings moving across a magnetic field, and in doing so also pick up the harmonic frequencies fed back to the string from resonant vibrations created within the bass - usually made of wood. As musicians we perceive these extra harmonics as "character", and it's why electric guitars and basses sound like guitars and basses, not synthesisers. Piezo transducers "hear" the sound one way, pickups do so in another.