Rich

Police and Thieves - Junior Murvin

Hipshot D-tuners, as many others have said. ABM monorail bridge pieces Delano pickups... they would be a no-brainer addition to any future build I commissioned.

F**k Tha Police - NWA

Fly on the Wall · AC/DC

Omelette from Outer Space - Adam & The Ants

Matchbox - Carl Perkins

I concur. There's definitely something Rayish going on in that tone.

Last Train Home - Pat Metheny

IIRC Eddy Grant was so fed up with the obsessive labelling and mislabelling of genres that he called one of his albums "File Under Rock".

Bang on. Nobody is forcing anyone to participate, and IMHO @stewblack is quite right -- it encapsulates the evolution of popular music. Always an interesting topic. I never got on with Leb personally, I was definitely more of a Rocky Black man. I recall some absolutely banzai grass doing the rounds in our town for a few months too.

There speaks a man with no Thunderbird

The Mekon fingers are a clue, aren't they?

The Old Rugged Cross - trad

My ABG is a Tanglewood 'Rosewood Reserve', a really lovely thing of loveliness. I hated the feel of the phos-bronze strings, so just as an experiment I fitted an old set of Elixir nickels from one of my gigging basses. SO much better!

Wooden Tít Be Nice - Beach Boys

Yes, my thoughts entirely. A J/P/Ray along those Tele lines would look amazing I reckon.

pSyChO.

I'm quite taken with some of the examples of 'steampunk' instruments I've seen online. I'm half tempted to have a go at a mild steampunking of a bass, as it would fit quite well with the quasi-Victorian/Edwardian stage image I'm currently putting together for one of my bands. Have any of you lovely people ever done anything in a similar vein? I don't envisage doing anything quite as complex as this Jazz, but I am quite taken with the milder look that's been done to this Tele.

What do you understand the term "luthier" to mean?

Scarlet - Rolling Stones ft. Jimmy Page

Same bass, same cab, I don't drink

Oh I do love a sweeping generalisation.

I was really hoping nobody would ask me that... TBH it was just one of those je ne sais quoi things, an indefinable 'something'. Perhaps it was the EQ centres, I don't know. But even with the EQ flat it just sounded... better. I'm sorry for the vagueness, I wish I could nail it down.

I spent a very pleasant day with @MoJoKe a couple of years or so ago trying out the Marcus heads, and was really impressed. I far preferred them to the 'ordinary' MB amps. I was completely sold, and intended pulling the trigger on a Marcus 800 head until a Shuttle 9.2 came along at a price I couldn't resist.

Not really an issue unless the OP's going to be skiing, which he hasn't mentioned. I know I wouldn't... I like mountaintops, and have never seen the sense in throwing myself off a perfectly good one