Jean-Luc Pickguard

Icky Trump — The White Stripes

The Great American Bum — Cisco Houston

I Give To You — Nitzer Ebb

When I first saw these, I thought they'd simply be renamed sonic series in limited colours to compete with amazon cheapies, however I've noticed that the debut doesn't have the dark surround in the truss rod adjustment orifice, where the sonic does. I wonder what other costs they were able to shave off. If they did a black one with maple fingerboard I could easily be tempted to get one to mod.

In A Rut — The Ruts

So, which companies are dead to you?

Brain Salad Surgery — Emerson Lake & Palmer

So, Which companies are dead to you?

The person who bought this is a smart cookie

Any gig where the punters outnumber the band members plus the barstaff is a good start.

I didn't even know blackstar did any bass gear apart from the Amplug thingy

Mad Dogs And Englishmen — Noel Coward

I stand wherever there's space once the drummer has set up

I popped into the Gibson Garage today. Hundreds of Les Pauls, plus other guitar models and one area of a wall about 6 feet wide with a handful of basses. Fell in love with a Korina flying V until I saw it was c£10K. Some nice Epiphones downstairs — The missus particularly liked one of the basses, a yellow newport, but again only a few basses. Everything at full list price and many of the T-shirts were £69, although there were some cheaper ones from about £28. The nicest bass in the place was probably an inverness green non-reverse thunderbird for £2200, but I already have a faded pelham blue one which cost me considerably less.

Nice!