Rich

I saw Matt Garrison using all four fingers when he was playing with Gary Husband. Quite astonishing to watch. No slouch!

The Air That I Breathe - Hollies

The unacceptable face of pub gigs. (the UV woman, that is, not Jack's band)

Beware Of The Flowers ('Cos I'm Sure They're Going To Get You Yeah) - Otway

I only used to play a few songs with a pick, but now I play roughly half the songs in the ska band's set with one. A lot of them make so much more sense, it leaves me wondering why I ever played them fingerstyle in the first place. My weapon of choice is still the Herco heavy thumbpick. I love the fact that I don't have to grip it very hard at all.

Yes! What a ludicrous little cab (in a really good way).

I make sure the open strings are in tune and the intonation is correct, and I deal with any slight inaccuracies in fretted notes towards the top of the neck by Really Not Giving A Sh*t.

You Know Nothing - Swans

George Anderson's Jaydee signature GA-24 (on the left). For me, a more attractive body shape than the more familiar 'Mark King' Roadies.

You're Breakin' My Heart - Nilsson

Catley's Ashes - Jakko Jakszyk

Chris Wolstenholme's double neck Status/Kitara. The Gedster's red Wal. Stu Hamm's Fender Urge 1. JPJ's 10-string Manson.

The Last Waltz - Engeldink Humperbert

Counting Sheep - Safia

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On My Own - Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald

Well... keep it to yourself, but I've found a gap in the razor wire that the border patrols haven't spotted yet. Getting past the guard towers is easy enough, and if you can get a decent fake South West passport, you should be ok. Oh, and rehearse a few choice Bash phrases. "How does this tiny bass sound so huge?" and "can I have yet another cup of tea please?" and "can't resist it, I'm gonna have to go get some seconds" should do it.

"C'MON TAUNTON, LEMME HEAR YOU MAKE SOME FACKIN NOISE!!"

Walk Don't Walk - Judie Tzuke

In terms of parts, it's really quite reasonable. I put together a shopping list of all the components I'd need (although I actually had quite a few to hand already) from Bitsbox, and together with the PCB from Fuzzdog it all came to about 31 quid. I got the enclosure and footswitch from eBay. A bit of drilling and soldering and hey presto. I subsequently made a 'Heffalump Junior' version in a smaller enclosure, with no blend or battery, and it was slightly cheaper at 27 quid.

I live in hope of a Performer reissue. Having played Stub's yesterday, I am more hooked than ever.

It's a tweaked Woolly Mammoth clone I built, with partial success (some of the tweaking worked, others didn't ). I wasn't using it, so I lobbed it into the raffle pile.

Here's how it looks now with the filled pickup cavity. Ive put a strip of tape across the top of the pickup too, to stop any stray 'clicks' when I dig in a bit. I'm going to stop guffing about with it now it sounds great and does everything I wanted it to. The End